This is a a fun and easy Toddler Craft.  I read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar before I create this craft with the kids and then we make the Hungry Caterpillar.  If you don’t have The Very Hungry Caterpillar and you have 1-4 year old I highly recommend you get it!!  It’s a great story by Eric Carle ( I love all his books!!) with big colorful pictures.  It tells the tale of a a Very Hungry Caterpillar who eats one apple on Monday, two pears on tuesday and so on until he becomes a beautiful butterfly!  Not only is it a great story but helps reinforce counting and the days of the week!

As you read the story you can count the objects together that the Caterpillar eats.  At the end of the story you can ask your child to retell the story in their own words, or ask what happened after the caterpillar ate all the food?  Discuss the story a little and then you can make your own hungry caterpillar together!!

Caterpillar Craft

Supplies

• Inside of a paper towel roll cut to about 3 inches, or a toilet paper roll inside
• Pipe Cleaners
• Fuzzy Balls
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Glue

Steps

1. Cut little holes in the top of the cardboard roll (2 right next to eachother for antenaes)
2. Cut pipe cleaner to 3 inches long-2 pieces
3. Place pipe cleaner in hole and bend bottom into the inside of the roll so it doesn’t come out
4. Curve top to make it look like an antenna  (do this in other hole-so you have 2 antennae)
5. Glue Googly eyes in front of antennae
6. Glue on Fuzzy balls all around top and sides of roll

Enjoy your Caterpillar!!  If you do this craft come share your pictures!!