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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

September 14, 2010 by Anna Ranson

I love all books by the author/ illustrator Eric Carle and remember them fondly from my own childhood. Cakie loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar and is slightly over-obesessed with the pages displaying the vast array of food he ate! When I read it to her she makes her own sound-track of little “oooos” and “yums” as we progress through each day until we reach the bumper crop that Saturday has to offer. And that promotes a “wow!” pretty much every time!

So I decided that we will work on a display together of the caterpillar and his mountain of fabulous food so that she can look at it and talk about it to her hearts content. And for no other purpose really than to make her happy and prompt lots more talking! We started with the caterpillar and will begin the food later in the week.

I drew around a glass onto two shades of green card and cut out a range of circles.

I encouraged C to colour them in using all of the green pens and crayons that we have and she made lots of marks on them.

Then (together!) we added gloopy glue and overlapped each circle to stick them together. While it was still wet it was possible to move them around to make him more “wiggly” like in the book.

Then we added a face and eyes, which she drew on, and some antennae and stuck it on the wall!

Next step: making the fruit from the days of the week. We will have a go at doing these in different ways eg printing, painting, collage, crayons etc. I will add the days of the week next to the each one.

I will put up the results when they are done!

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    September 14, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    I think this blog is brilliant! Thanks for taking the time to put up all these good ideas. I’m often wondering what to do with J so will be using your tips 🙂

  2. Jonathan Hunt says

    September 14, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    You make me want to have little children!

  3. Anna says

    September 14, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    Haha Jonathan! You should have a tots group at your church and do some crafts there 😉

  4. Deborah says

    September 16, 2010 at 4:48 am

    I found your site from Red Ted Art and love all your great ideas and beautiful photos!

  5. Infant Bibliophile says

    September 17, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    Visiting from Preschool Corner — What a cute idea! My son loves those pages too. In fact for a long time, those were the only pages he would pay any attention to. We did a Hungry Caterpillar craft last week too; here’s our link: http://infantbibliophile.blogspot.com/2010/09/very-hungry-caterpillar-craft.html

  6. Dorie says

    September 18, 2010 at 12:13 am

    Great idea. I really like how your child’s coloring on each circle made a similar appearance to the original caterpillar. (I’m visiting from Homeschool Creations link-up.)

  7. Anna says

    September 18, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    I think that is a happy co-incidence! And thank you for commenting!

  8. Airamty says

    September 20, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    Visiting from No time for flash cards! Great and cute idea!!! I’ll be doing this with my girl.

  9. Courtney says

    September 22, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    What a GREAT idea! My son loves that book too, we’re going to try this!

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