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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Paint Craft

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April 9, 2014

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My girls have been infatuated with our how our caterpillars have grown this week, so we decided to make a fun craft to go with our lesson. We love Eric Carle’s books, so decided to create The Very Hungry Caterpillar Paint Craft. It’s an easy kids craft that goes perfectly with our science homeschooling lesson. This post contains affiliate links.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Paint Craft

This week we are learning about caterpillars and the Butterfly Life Cycle. My girls love reading books that tie into our weekly lessons so we chose one of our favorites this week.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We have read the book about ten times this week already and it’s only Wednesday, but it gives the girls the foundation in a fun way about the butterfly life cycle. 

Caterpillar Craft Materials

Materials Needed:

  • White card stock or construction paper
  • Sponges cut into circles
  • Paint (red, green, purple, yellow, brown)
  • Toothpicks
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book to read of course

 Our Very own Hungry Caterpillars

This past weekend we headed to the Farmers Market to pick up our yearly caterpillars, but this year we actually get to learn a bit more about them. As you can see on the right, we have our very own Very Hungry Caterpillar! When we brought them home on Saturday they were teeny tiny!  

Today will be the second time that we change their leaves. The girls were a little worried that they would get a tummy ache, in fact, they believed that’s why the one on the left was sleeping.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Arts and Craft

Instructions

Using a paper plate I poured a little bit of each color paint for the girls to use.

Starting with the red color for the caterpillars head and then the green paint for the caterpillar’s body, My oldest dipped her round sponges into the paint and printed circles on her white card stock paper.  I had a sample that she was looking at that I had made years before in the classroom and found in my educational filing cabinet.

Caterpillar Kid Art

To make the caterpillars antennas, My daughter dipped the side of her pinkie finger in the purple paint and then printed over her caterpillars head. This was all her idea and it worked out great!

Kids Caterpillar Craft

Using toothpicks dipped in brown paint, she made caterpillar legs.

Caterpillar Kids Learning Craft

Allow your caterpillar dry for a bit before doing the eyes and nose.

For the eyes and nose, she wanted to use small pieces of the sponge to dip in the yellow and purple paint.  I suggested her finger, but she clearly stated that she no longer wished to get dirty!  Um, oookay then!  So, to make my little artist happy, I cut out teeny tiny little round pieces of sponge.

To finish off the eyes she dripped green paint over the yellow paint.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Arts & Crafts for Kids

In between all of this craft fun my poor little one got sick, so she just relaxed and read her book The Very Hungry Caterpillar of course.

More of our favorite Butterfly Books

  • Explore My World Butterflies
  • The Life Cycle of Butterflies
  • National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly
  • Pinkalicious and the Beautiful Butterfly
  • Butterfly Colors and Counting
  • From Caterpillar to Butterfly
  • Ten Magic Butterflies
  • A Butterfly’s Life

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Paint Craft

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Comments

  1. Susen says

    April 9, 2014 at 9:00 pm

    Your girls did a great job!! Cute craft!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 11, 2014 at 7:51 am

      Thank you Susen 🙂 Have a great weekend!

      Reply
  2. Sara says

    April 11, 2014 at 10:50 am

    If you’re going to be reading a book 10 times by Wednesday, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a good one. My children and I have wonderful memories of the book.

    I love the caterpillars made with sponge prints! They’re beautiful.

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 11, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      Yes, it is 🙂 I think we are up to 20 times this week, so thank goodness I do love the book. Thank you so much Sara 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend!

      Reply
  3. Susan W says

    April 11, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    One of our favorite books of all time! Their paintings are very special – I really like the sponge painting idea!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 11, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      Thank you Susan 🙂

      Reply
  4. Ashley says

    April 15, 2014 at 9:38 am

    Cute caterpillar! We love that book too! My littlest loves sticking his fingers in the holes of the food!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 15, 2014 at 9:28 pm

      Awe, too cute! Thanks for stopping by Ashley 🙂

      Reply
  5. Alexis @ We Like to Learn as We Go says

    April 15, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    What a fun art activity! The sponges are smart! My girls would love this! They love the book. Just pinned!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 15, 2014 at 9:27 pm

      Thank you Alexis! Have a great week 🙂

      Reply
  6. Jennifer Dawn says

    April 15, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    This is such a cute idea! Isn’t that a great book?!

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      April 22, 2014 at 6:30 am

      Thank you Jennifer! Yes, we absolutely love it!

      Reply
  7. kristen@CountryFitFamily says

    May 14, 2014 at 6:10 am

    This craft has been featured in our Bug Craft Round-Up on Artsy Play Wednesday linky. Thanks for linking up! http://www.countryfitfamily.com/2014/05/bug-crafts-round-artsy-play-wednesday-kids-craft-linky.html

    Reply
    • abccreativelearning says

      May 14, 2014 at 7:20 am

      Thank you so much Kristen 🙂

      Reply

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