Moving Caterpillar Craft
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a terrifically fun story, and today, we have a moving caterpillar craft that can help your kids engage with this story!
- Now even younger children can follow the little green caterpillar as he eats his way to becoming a beautiful butterfly in this sturdy board book
- Great for early development
- Children will enjoy this delightful tale
- Ages 2 to 5
List of Supplies for Moving Caterpillar Craft
Instructions for The Moving Caterpillar Craft
Step 1
Download, print, and cut out the template patterns. Select colored cardstock paper for the leaf and the strip pattern and select colored craft papers for the caterpillar patterns. Trace the template patterns on the selected papers and cut them out using scissors.
Step 2
Take any one of the rectangle cutouts (caterpillar) and apply glue along a short side.
Step 3
Roll the rectangle cutout and join both ends to form a cylinder shape.
Step 4
Similarly, prepare a total of 6 paper cylinder shapes.
Step 5
Take any one of the paper cylinder shapes and attach the antenna cutouts onto it.
Step 6
Use a sharpie to draw the eyes and mouth of the caterpillar on the same paper cylinder shape with the paper antennas.
Step 7
Attach a paper cylinder adjacent to the caterpillar head cylinder shape.
Step 8
One by one, join all 6 paper cylinder shapes together on a line, keeping the head to the front of the line.
Step 9
Take the leaf cutout and fold it in half, lengthwise.
Step 10
Make accordion folds on the half-folded leaf pattern.
Step 11
Unfold all the folds.
Step 12
Take the cardstock strip and turn the paper caterpillar to the bottom side. Apply a drop of glue on the bottom side of the head part only.
Step 13
Attach the strip to the glued part. Apply 2 drops of glue on both sides of the strip, on the paper cylinder at the end.
Step 14
Attach the paper caterpillar to the paper leaf with the 2 drops of glue. Make sure that the strip is free from glue and the caterpillar is joined to the leaf with its tail cylinder only.
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