The Very Hungry Caterpillar... Activity Ideas please.

[EmmaReed84]

We are starting a a theme about The Very Hungry Caterpillar, yesterday we had some colourING pages with with the numbers of fruit and a title page, we made a little book out of them. Also I made a Hungry Caterpillar Platter with cut up Apples, Pears, Plums, Strawberries and Oranges for the children to eat, we talk about food, colours textures etc. We also did apple prints and made green paint with blue and yellow... I did this with my MIL and her minded children as well, and most of the children are 3. Then the two 18 mths old played with the toy food and shopping trolley. Oh and ate the fruit LOL!

My question is, what other activities can we do. I had the idea of it going over two weeks (not everyday) but the Caterpillar took two weeks in his cocoon, so I wanted to tie it in with that, then in two weeks look at butterflies, and transition on to a spring theme.

[miffy]

There are some nice ideas here

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/uploads...ity%20Pack.pdf

Have you done a forum search - I'm sure there will have been other threads about this

Miffy xx

[hectors house]

We looked on Eric Carle's website and watched a video of how he did the illustrations - we copied the idea about printing with different objects on different coloured tissue paper (eg: duplo bricks, driving cars through the paint, dinosaur feet) then I cut the tissue paper into strips, drew outline of a butterfly and stuck on the coloured printed strips.

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As you can see in the photo - the mindees also decorated paper plates to make a big caterpillar to go with our big butterfly - I still have the butterfly in a clip frame in my utility as it was too lovely to throw away.

We also had snack based on what the hungry caterpillar ate - substituted a few items!

[AdeleMarie88]

You can do a sequencing activity, what happened and when, throughout the story, make your own stories about what are best foods to eat to grow?

Go on a hunt for butterflies?

Visit a butterfly house if possible...x

[zanacal]

Literally just bookmarked this page!

Toddler Approved!: 25 Very Hungry Caterpillar Crafts & Activities {45th Very Hungry Caterpillar Anniversary Giveaway}

[VeggieSausage]

look on Pinterest....

[SYLVIA]

We did it with a story sack which had all the fruits and bits from the book. I printed and laminated the large green leaf, made holes in it for threading. Printed off the caterpillar with numbers on, cut out the circles for scissor practise and made a paper machie caterpillar using a long balloon that has bumps on it like a caterpillar, not the smooth one. We also have the DVD and pretended to be the caterpillar, being in a little cocoon, the springing out as butteflies, flapping our wings

[gef918]

My son made a lovely collage at school using cut out pictures of fruit for the caterpillars body.

We're going to be visiting a butterfly house when it opens this year. I'm very excited about that!

[EmmaReed84]

Oh I like these ideas. There is a place near us that has all butterflies and other little bugs.

[smurfette]

We were at Jo jingles this morning and we
Sang a song called 'why does the butterfly flutter by' (hadn't heard it before but worth a google ) and the leader gave the kids square pieces of material about 1 door square, one for each hand. They fluttered around to the music