Caterpillar Fun!!

Caterpillar Fun 

Caterpillar  Learning Activities

Caterpillar Counting

I made an activity that had Addie make caterpillars with stickers and her fingerprints.  She looked at the number and added a head and then her fingerprints for the body. For example: for the number 6 she added one sticker and then five finger prints. 

Caterpillar Name

Cut different colored circles out of construction paper

Glue the circles onto black construction paper

Stick letter stickers onto each circle to spell out each child's name

Draw a face on each caterpillar and add antenna

 

ABC Caterpillar

Addie writing the letters of the alphabet

The finished ABC Caterpillar

 

I cut out 26 circles from construction paper.

We glued the circles to a piece of construction paper.

Addie wrote the letters from A-Z on the circles.

We made the circles into a LOOOOOONG Caterpillar

We drew a face and added antenna!

 Caterpillar Crafts

 Watercolor Caterpillar

Draw a caterpillar onto white paper

Paint the caterpillar with watercolor paint

Let dry and then cut out the caterpillar

draw a face on the caterpillar

 

Caterpillar Clothespins

Glue 4 pom poms onto a clothespin

Glue on googly eyes

Glue on pipe cleaners for the antennas

 

Caterpillar Handprints

Trace hand onto green paper ( I used two different shades of green)

Cut out a circle for the head from green construction paper

Cut out the hand prints - I did 4 handprints per caterpillar

Glue the handprints together and glue on the head

Glue on googly eyes, pipe cleaner antennas and draw smile and nose

Write the child's name on their finished caterpillar

 

Pom Pom Caterpillar Craft Sticks

Glue 7 pom pom's onto a large craft stick. 

Glue on pipe cleaner antennas

 

Paper Roll Caterpillar

Cut strips of 2 different colored construction paper

Roll the strips and secure with glue.

Cut a leaf shape from green paper

Glue the rolls onto the leaf

Glue on googly eyes and pipe cleaner antennas

Use a hole punch to make holes in the leaf

Milk Cap Caterpillar

Cut green craft foam into a leaf shape

Glue on 4 milk caps to form a caterpillar

Glue on googly eyes

Bend a 5" piece of pipe cleaner into a V and glue it to make the caterpillar's antenna

Draw a nose and smile on the caterpillar

Draw feet on the caterpillar

 

Easter Learning Unit - Week 1

Easter Learning Unit - Week 1

 

 Easter Crafts

 

Cardboard Tube Easter Bunnies

Paint a cardboard tube pink - let dry

Cut ears from white card stock, and the inner part of the ears from pink construction paper

Fold the ears at the bottom and glue the ears to the top of the cardboard tube

Glue on googly eyes, cotton ball nose, 4 black pipe cleaners and 2 front teeth (cut from craft foam)


Footprint Easter Bunnies

Paint feet white and press onto pink construction paper - let dry

Cut around the feet in ear shapes

Cut out a circle shape for the head

Press thumb into ink pad and press onto the head for the bunny's nose

Draw on eyes, mouth and whiskers

 

Hand Print Easter Chicks

Cut an oval shape out of yellow construction paper.

Cut out feet and beak from orange construction paper. 

Trace hands on yellow construction paper and cut out.

Glue hands to the oval body of the chick.

Glue on feet, beak and googly eyes.

Glue a feather on each wing for a finishing touch!

 

 

Hand Print Easter Bunny

Paint palm and 4 fingers white - do not paint the thumb.

Press the hand onto colored paper and let dry.

Once dry, paint pointer finger pink and press onto the middle of the ears.

Use the tip of the pointer finger to make the pink nose.

Glue on googly eyes and draw whiskers and mouth with a black marker.
 

Is It An Egg?  Or Is It a Bunny? 

Cut 2 identical oval shapes out of printed paper and white paper.  Cut the printed oval in half to make the ears for the bunny.  Draw a face on the white oval.  Use brad fasteners to attach the ears to the top of the white oval.

Tana and Addie with their eggs/bunnies

 

Easter Learning Activities
 

Egg Name Writing

Letters, name writing, color recognition, gluing and counting



I cut out enough paper "Easter Eggs" from different colored construction paper for each child's name.  I decorated each egg leaving a space in the middle for letter writing.  Each child wrote their name - assigning each letter to a different egg.  Next, they glued the eggs, in order, onto a half sheet of construction paper.  For additional practice and review Tana and Chase identified the color of each egg in their name and counted the eggs and the chick stickers around their eggs. 

 

Egg Shape Match 

Math - Shape identification

Matching and color identification

** I did a similar activity with Addie.  We focused on number recognition and one-to-one correspondence in counting.  I will post Addie's Egg Number Match next week.**

First, I separated each egg.  Next, I drew a  shape onto the top half of one egg.  Then, the matching shape onto the bottom half of another egg.  I made sure to not match my eggs by color, since I wanted to focus on shape identification and matching as the primary learning activity.  I continued this with all of my eggs.  I did circle, square, rectangle, triangle, star and heart - since this a new activity for my 2 year old children.

Tana matching her eggs

For the activity, I separated all of the matching eggs and spread the halves out on the floor in front of each child.  Then they worked on matching the correct shapes on the eggs together, while identifying the shapes.  Once all of the eggs were back together, we reviewed our colors by looking at each egg!

Easter Egg and Bunny Color Match

Color identification

Chase and his matching project

I cut out bunnies and colored their tummies, ears and paws matching colors.  Next, I cut out paper Easter eggs to match the bunnies.  I drew 3 lines on a piece of construction paper.  Then, I had the 2 year old children match the bunnies and eggs by gluing the bunnies on the piece of construction paper. 

Tana matching her purple bunny and purple Easter egg

 

Easter Bunny Upper and Lowercase Letter Match

Letter identification

This activity is similar to the one above, but I am focusing on letter identification with Addie.  I only cut out Easter Bunnies for her activity.  I wrote matching upper and lowercase letters on her bunnies.  She had to match the letters and glue each letter on the construction paper.

 

Broken Egg Shape Matching

Shape identification and matching

The color orange and purple
**Next week I will post a Broken Egg Letter Match activity. **

I cut out 5 egg shapes from purple and orange construction paper.  I then "cracked" each egg by cutting the eggs in half.  Next, I drew matching shapes on the top and bottom half of each egg.  Then I placed the "broken" eggs in front of Tana.  She sorted through the eggs, matching the shapes one at a time.  Each time she fixed a "broken" egg, she glued the egg halves onto a piece of construction paper.  I made sure she identified each shape.  We also reviewed the colors purple and orange!!!

Tana fixing the "broken" eggs

 

 

Farm Learning Unit!

On the Farm Learning Unit!!

 

Paper Plate Cow!

Cut a circle out of pink paper.  Draw on nostrils and a mouth.  Cut out horns and ears and glue them to the plate.  Draw eyes and black spots. 
Reading Extension:  We read - Moo Moo, Brown Cow  by Jakki Wood

Paper Plate Rooster!

Trace hand on red craft foam and cut it out.  Glue the hand to the top of the plate.  Cut 2 oval eyes from black craft foam, a beak from yellow craft foam and a  "gobbler" (that is what I call them!!)  out of red craft foam.  Glue all of the pieces to the Paper Plate. 
Reading Extension:  We read - Who Says Moo? by Harriet Ziefert

Pigs in the Mud!

 

I drew a pig template onto pink construction paper and cut it out.  We glued on a pink button nose, a twisted pink pipe cleaner and drew on two black eyes.  The 3 younger ones glued their pig onto a piece of "mud" (brown construction paper that I had cut into a "mud" shape)

Addie glued her pig to the "mud" too.  We added a lined piece of writing paper so she could write about her pig. 

 Addie's Pig!

Reading Extension:  We read  Hungry Pig by Russell Julian

 

Oatmeal Canister Barn!

We covered an oatmeal canister with red construction paper.  You could paint the canister too.  Addie used white paint to make a door and window.  We made a cone shape for the top and attached it with tape. 
Reading Extension:  We read - Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

Farm Animal Number Writing
Math - number writing, number order
 

I printed a cow, pig and sheep from my computer and Addie wrote her numbers 1-12 onto each farm animal.  I cut the animals out and Addie glued the animals in number order onto the strip of paper. 

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Draw or glue a red barn onto a brown lunch bag - I only had 2 greeting card bags and I was out of red construction paper!!  Cut out a white rectangle for the barn door and two, white squares for the window.  Use black marker to draw the details for the door and windows.  On separate pieces of card stock attach farm animal pictures and write the sounds  they make.  Place the cards in the "barn" bag.  Sing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"  Choose a farm animal out of the bag for each verse!

 

 

Winter Unit!

Winter Fun Unit!

 

Mitten Matching -

Math - Counting, one-to-one correspondence and number recognition

I found this free template from the wonderful site Maketaketeach   Addie loved playing this number/counting matching game!

Snowman Name!

Name Writing

We cut out enough "snowballs" to make a head for the snowman and the "name" body.  Addie glued on a hat, scarf, boots and arms.  She drew the eyes, nose and mouth.  She cut out bits of white paper to make the falling snow!

 

Winter Clothes Mobile

What belongs 

I posted this activity earlier in the month.  Here is the link to my earlier post about the

Winter Clothes Mobile

 

Snowman Letter Booklet

Writing uppercase and lowercase letters 

I created a word document and inserted a snowman from clipart and enlarged it to the size I wanted.  I printed multiple copies and Addie practiced writing some of her upper and lowercase letters.  Below is a sample of her G's and D's!

I cut out each "Letter Snowman" and glued it to construction paper and trimmed around the snowman to reinforce it.  Lastly, I punched a hole on the hat of each "Letter Snowman" and used a clasped ring to make a Snowman Letter Bookletfor Addie

 

Winter Fun Patterns

Patterns and cutting and pasting

I created a Word document and used clipart to find a snowflake, snowman sled and mittens for making patterns.  Addie cut out each item and made specific patterns!

 

Winter Wonderland Fill the Frame

5 and 10 Frame game

Counting, one to one correspondence

Addie placing the correct number of snowflakes on the mittens

Link to the Winter Wonderland Fill the Frame activity

 

In My Snowglobe

Winter art and writing activity

I saw this great activity on Kreative In Kinder

 

Snowflake Counting

Number recognition, counting, cutting and pasting

Addie cut out the numbers 1-10 and glued each number below a snowman.  Then she cut out the appropriate number of snowflakes and glued them above the each snowman.  I am going to make this into a number book for her!

Here is the link to this great Snowflake Math activity.

 

Hot Cocoa and Counting Marshmallows

name and number writing, counting

The template says

Hot cocoa in (insert name)'s cup,

she just wants to drink it up.

(insert name) puts (insert number) marshmallows in

and now the drinking can begin!

 

I created the rhyme and printed it.  Addie wrote her name in the appropriate places.  She rolled a dice and counted the dots.  Then she used a hole punch to punch out the correct number of marshmallows from a piece of white craft foam.  She glued the "marshmallows" in the mug. 

I drew the mug and cut out the mug and wavy line for the mug.  Addie glued the mug to the black paper and glued the "hot cocoa" to the mug.  She then glued the rhyme to the top and wrote in the appropriate number of marshmallows! 

 

 

Other Winter Crafts we did this month!

Click on the link to go to my blog post about each winter craft.

Paper Plate Snowman Faces
 

 Make Your Own Felt Snowman
 

Glitter Snowflake

 

Sponge Painted Snowman

Handprint Snowmen