ELC & The Very Hungry Caterpillar

**Pedagog** · 25-03-2009, 09:09 PM

Went into Early Learning Centre today and they have loads of Very Hungry Caterpillar products and if you spend £15 on them you get a free Hungry Caterpillar bag and scrap book.

I got a great large board book with soft caterpillar, and a card game.

They also had some lovely puppets, jumbo floor puzzle, pram toys, baby books and colouring books.

I love Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Nothing on their website that I can find.

**charleyfarley** · 25-03-2009, 09:16 PM

Ooohhhh thanks for that

Hungry Caterpillar is in my planning for the next month, I shall be popping in to ELC on Sat

Carol xx

**donnadoo2004200** · 25-03-2009, 10:30 PM

I did an activity on this today with mindees, after the book I let them chop up their own fruit for snack time, we had kiwi, dragon fruit, mango and passion fruit, they loved this and most of them ate fruit they dont normally touch. Great book though.

**PixiePetal** · 25-03-2009, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by donnadoo2004200

I did an activity on this today with mindees, after the book I let them chop up their own fruit for snack time, we had kiwi, dragon fruit, mango and passion fruit, they loved this and most of them ate fruit they dont normally touch. Great book though.

Did you try the dragon fruit? Looks lovely but it had no taste (well not the one we had!) waste of money except DD needed to draw it for art

**miffy** · 25-03-2009, 10:37 PM

Thanks for that - will have a look next time I'm in there

Sparklebox have a Hungry Caterpillar game in their free downloads

www.sparklebox.co.uk

Miffy xx

**katieanna** · 25-03-2009, 10:42 PM

Hi,
Tescos have got the very hungry caterpillar and colourful butterfly reduced, I got them for £2.71 each...... Bargain. Much cheaper than ELC!! Also Wilkinsons quite often have the giant floor puzzle of the hungry caterpillar for £5.

**loocyloo** · 25-03-2009, 11:12 PM

ooo ... i was in my local elc last saturday and nearly bought some hungry caterpillar stuff ... didn't see anything to say you got a free gift if you spent £15 !!!

i'm a sucker for a 'free' gift everytime!

**rickysmiths** · 26-03-2009, 12:23 AM

I'll have to pop in on Sat get some stuff to go in my story sack made from the Very Hungry Catterpillar Material I got at Hobby Craft last month.

**charleyfarley** · 26-03-2009, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by PixiePetal

Did you try the dragon fruit? Looks lovely but it had no taste (well not the one we had!) waste of money except DD needed to draw it for art

Glad it wasn't just us that thought it had no taste, ours was tasteless too, not cheap either

Carol xx

**huggableshelly** · 26-03-2009, 07:17 AM

coolies ty

i did the hungry catterplillar this month as got live caterpillars.

well now they are in coccoons now, they should start opening out on monday yay i hope they dont open over the wkend as want the mindess to see them too.

**angeldelight** · 26-03-2009, 07:19 AM

I also saw this in ELC the other day and thought what a bargain it was

But .........

Then I went to Tesco and it was actually cheaper and had no offer on it

Angel xx

**miffy** · 26-03-2009, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by katieanna

Hi,
Tescos have got the very hungry caterpillar and colourful butterfly reduced, I got them for £2.71 each...... Bargain. Much cheaper than ELC!! Also Wilkinsons quite often have the giant floor puzzle of the hungry caterpillar for £5.

Can feel a trip to Tesco's coming on.................

Miffy xx

**Pedagog** · 26-03-2009, 08:39 AM

Yes, I think a trip to Tesco is a must. I have been wanting to make a Hungry Caterpillar story sack for a while.

**Toothfairy** · 26-03-2009, 09:03 AM

I'm sure you all know this

but just incase any new CM's did'nt, if you are a CM you can get a 10% discount card form ELC which is renewed yearly. You just have to fill in a small form and take along your registration certificate and a letter head.

**Pudding Girl** · 26-03-2009, 09:08 AM

I'm a huge fan of VHC!

I'm getting two handmade VHC footmuffs made for me

**Rasharoon** · 26-03-2009, 10:37 AM

I did see all the lovely Hungry Caterpillar toys but then I also saw the price. I did get the story sack from our local children's centre the other week but nobody showed the slighest bit of interest!!

**Pedagog** · 26-03-2009, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Toothfairy

I'm sure you all know this

but just incase any new CM's did'nt, if you are a CM you can get a 10% discount card form ELC which is renewed yearly. You just have to fill in a small form and take along your registration certificate and a letter head.

Sadly they wouldn't let you have discount and free gift.