The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Projects

Tissue Paper Caterpillar

Cut red and green tissue paper into circles.  Apply Mod Podge to the circles to make a caterpillar and to secure them to the paper.  When dry draw on legs and facial features

Sponge Painted Caterpillar

Beaded Caterpillar

Skills:  fine motor

Learning Projects

Caterpillar Name Writing

Skills:  name writing, counting letters in your name, 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Here is the link for these pattern cards and templates

If I were the very hungry caterpillar . . . 

Skills:  writing, tracing, beginning writing

Here is the link for the writing template

Learning Activities

Caterpillar Tracing

Skills:  tracing, prewriting writing

Here is the link for this Fun Caterpillar

What is Different and Letter Tracing

Skills:  finding differences, tracing, letters, beginning writing

Here is the link for the What is Different, Letter Tracing and What Comes Next

What Comes Next

Skills:  what comes next

Roll and Draw a Caterpillar

Skills:  counting, following directions, spatial recognition,shapes

Here is the link for Roll and Draw a Caterpillar

Drawing and rolling

The Letter C and Fall Fun!

The Letter C and Fall Fun!

The Letter C

C is for cookie

C is for caterpillar

C is for car

C is for Corn

Paint one hand yellow and press onto white paper.  Paint both hands green and press onto white paper - somewhat overlapping the palms.  When dry cut around the hand prints and glue onto a piece of construction paper to make the hand print corn!

C is for Crayon - letter writing

Skills:  C letter writing, 

Tana practiced writing the letter C and c.  Cc is for crayon!

Fall Projects

Fall Shape Tree

Skills:  shapes, colors, counting, gluing

Cut out a tree trunk from brown construction paper.

Cut out squares, circles, triangles and rectangles from colored paper.

Glue the tree trunk to a piece of construction paper.  Glue on the different shapes (leaves).

Cork Painted Fall Tree

Cut out a brown tree trunk and glue to white paper.  Press a wine cork into red, yellow and orange paint.  Press the cork on the paper to make Fall Leaves!

Fall Learning Activities

Leaf Patterns

Skills:  Patterns, name writing

I cut out leaves from orange, yellow and red construction paper.  

Tana wrote her name on the top and then made her own leaf patterns.

Keely did her own pattern too!

Leaf Shadow Matching

Skills:  matching

I found this cute matching activity at totschooling.com  Here is the link

Leaf Scissor Practice

Skills:  scissor practice, name writing

I traced leaf patterns onto construction paper and had Joey and Tana cut out the leaves and glue the leaves to construction paper.  

ABC Fall Family Tree

Skills: scissor practice, writing, letters, patterns, counting, ordinal numbers, addition, most and least

Addie was home sick from school the other day, so we did a fun Fall Project for school.  

I cut out the fall leaves.  Addie wrote the letters of the alphabet on the leaves.  She only wrote the letters that people in our family start with.  Then she wrote each family members name on the corresponding leaves.  I traced Addie's forearm and hand onto brown paper and she cut it out.  Addie glued the tree and leaves onto the paper.  She wrote Addie's ABC Fall Family Tree. (We also added green construction paper for grass)

I had Addie answer questions about her project on the back of the paper.  She counted all of the names, identified the pattern of leaves, Identified ordinal numbers, identified most and least number of names, and did an addition problem

Roll and Say Fall ABC

Skills:  letter recognition

I placed the page on a lid for my cake pan.  Tana and I took turns tossing/rolling an acorn onto the page and then saying the letter the acorn landed on!

Here is the link to this fun letter recognition game

Tana rolling the acorn

Caterpillars and Butterflies!

Caterpillars and Butterflies

Projects and Learning Activities

Caterpillar Patterns

I cut out circles from two different colors of construction paper.

Tana and Joey made the AB pattern and glued the circles onto a half sheet of paper to make the caterpillar.  We added facial features and feet to finish the project.

Plastic Egg Caterpillar

Here is another fun pattern activity.  

I separated plastic Easter eggs (2 colors for each child).

We strung two pipe cleaners through the holes in the plastic eggs.  I secured the ends by twisting the pipe cleaners.  Tana and Joey worked hard to make their AB patterns.  We glued on googly eyes and bent the pipe cleaner to make the caterpillar's antenna.

We used 9 full plastic eggs for each caterpillar.  The end egg is a full egg. the rest of the caterpillar is made from plastic egg halves.

Hand Print Butterfly

Cut out a body for the butterfly from black construction paper.

Glue on googly eyes and pipe cleaner antenna.

Paint both hands red and press onto yellow paper.

Repeat with blue paint.  

When the hand prints are dry, cut around the prints and glue the hand prints to the back of the body to make the butterfly's wings.

Clothespin and Tulle Butterfly
Paint a clothespin - any color
Let dry and then decorate with markers, more paint or foam stickers!
Cut any color tulle to fit for the wings. I had leftover pink tulle that was already cut into smaller pieces!
Cut a pipe cleaner into a 5 inch piece.  Fold it in half.
Open the clothespin and place the tulle inside.  Do the same with the pipe cleaner.

Band Aid Butterflies

Use a square piece of gauze and press a colorful band aid over it to make a butterfly.  Draw on the antenna for each butterfly!

Keely's Project

Tana and Joey!

Butterfly Life Cycle

I cut out leaf shapes from green paper

Explain the butterfly life cycle

Glue 4 leaves to a strip of construction paper.

On the first leaf glue on a small bean for the egg

On the 2nd leaf glue on a spiral noodle for the caterpillar

On the 3rd leaf glue on a piece of shell pasta for the chrysalis

on the 4th leaf glue on bow-tie pasta for the butterfly.

I also printed off labels to glue on to each leaf!

Butterfly Name and Numbers

Skills:  number order, number recognition

name recognition, letter recognition

I cut out butterfly shapes from construction paper

I wrote the numbers 1-5 for Tana and Joey's name for Joey!

They glued their butterfly cut-outs to their strips of paper.

Paper Chain Caterpillar

Skills:  patterns, colors

Cut strips of colored paper 

Link the strips together in a pattern to make a Caterpillar!

Cut skinny strips for the antenna and draw on facial features

Butterfly Matching - File Folder Game

This is one of my File Folder games.  I've shown it on my blog a couple of times.  This is a great matching activity!!

Here is the original link to this Beautiful Butterflies Matching Activity

Hand Print and Name Butterflies

Paint both hands with two different colors

Press both hands onto a piece of construction paper.  You can overlap the thumbs

When dry, draw on the butterfly body and write the child's name!

Spring!!

Spring

Projects

Fork Print Flowers
Press a plastic fork into paint
Press the tines of the fork onto a piece of paper to make flowers
Use green paint to make the flower's stems

Melted Snowman
Paint a white BLOB with paint
Glue on arms, eyes, nose, hat and scarf - cut from construction paper

Hand Print Flower
Paint hand green and press onto a paper plate
Press pointer finger into paint (any color) and press onto the plate to make flowers

Rainbow Ribbon
Cut a rainbow shape from white paper
Draw the rainbow and then color it in with the appropriate colors
Tape ribbon onto the back, bottom side of the rainbow

Robin Footprint
Paint foot brown
Press onto paper
Paint the belly of the robin red and draw on beak, eye, and feet

Rainbow Cloud

Draw a cloud shape onto white paper

Cut colored ribbon into long pieces.

Directions:  Cut the cloud out and draw on a face

Tape the ribbon to the back of the cloud

Learning Activities

Flower Counting
Skills:  counting, one-to-one matching, number recognition
Draw 5 stems and label the stems 1-5
Directions:  Glue on the appropriate number of buttons for each flower

Tulip Name Writing
Skills:  name writing
Cut out tulip shapes and stem shapes
Glue the tulips and stems to paper
Write your name on the tulips

Flower Name Writing
Skills:  name writing

Caterpillar Counting
I created a chart on a Word document with then numbers 1-5 along with 5 caterpillar heads!
Directions:  Say the number.
Glue that same amount of pom poms onto the caterpillar
Draw on legs!

Letter Garden
I cut out flower shapes from colored construction paper
Directions:  Write upper and lowercase letters on the flowers.
Glue the matching upper and lower case flowers above/below each other.

Add stems with a green marker.

Spring Flower CVC Words
I created a document with flower shapes on it
I laminated the Spring Flower CVC Words page so we could reuse it
I cut out flowers from construction paper and wrote beginning consonants on each flower
I wrote i and t on the 2nd and 3rd flowers
Directions:  Make CVC words on the flower mat using the paper flowers!

Addie made the word sit

Making another word