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Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar Craft

May 19, 2017 by Emma Edwards 1 Comment

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is a firm favourite childhood story. The book is ideal for science lessons (life cycles), PSED (healthy eating), learning the days of the week and reinforcing basic numeracy skills. The story can also help develop fine motor skills with our simple Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar Craft. 

Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar Craft

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Materials needed to create the Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar Craft

* Wooden Clothespins / pegs

* Green paint – we used two different shades

* Ziploc Bag

* Red paint

* Craft Foam – yellow, green, blue and purple

* Polystyrene circle or card – anything that you can attach the pegs to and cut afterwards

* PVA Craft Glue or Craft Foam Glue would be better

How to make the Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar Craft

1. “Paint” the clothespins by placing the clothespins into a ziploc bag and add green paint. We used two bags and two different shades of green paint. Although we used green poster paint, since creating our caterpillar I have discovered acrylic paints gives better coverage.

Easy way to paint clothespins

2. Squish the paint around inside the zip-loc bag so that the clothespins are adequately covered.

3. Remove the clothespins and place them on a tray lined with baking paper. Allow time for them to dry completely.

4. To make the Hungry Caterpillars head paint two clothespins with red paint. Cut two large ovals from the yellow craft foam and two smaller ovals from the green craft foam to make the eyes. Use the purple and blue craft foam to create the antennae. Secure these in place with PVA Craft Glue or Craft Foam Glue.

There are two different ways for attaching the clothespegs to make the Hungry Caterpillar.

Option 1 – use a recycled polystyrene circle. This way your child has something large to hold onto as they add the pegs. Once the pegs are attached you will need to cut around polystrene circle.

Fine motor skills and The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Option 2 – cut a piece of cardboard into a stretched C shape (see the video below for a better description). You may wish to wrap green electrical tape around the cardboard.

See in action how to make the Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar:

Simple Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar Craft

It is hard to believe that our Clothespin Hungry Caterpillar is now 2 1/2 years old.

Clothespin The Very Hungry Caterpillar

It is displayed in our dining room and this week it even went to Adam’s school as they are reading the story. Our simple craft was a great fine motor skill activity.

Simple and easy Hungry Caterpillar craft

It also creates a wonderful keepsake. The craft could easily be adapted so your child uses green wax crayons or felt tip pens to decorate the clothespins instead of paint.

Toddler made the very hungry caterpillar craft

More Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities

We have plenty of other Very Hungry Caterpillar activities to inspire your play:

Adventures of Adam Hungry Caterpillar and butterfly made from pegs

As we had created a clothespin hungry caterpillar we couldn’t resist creating a clothespin butterfly to compliment the story. Read how to create your own peg butterfly.

Adventures of Adam Hungry Caterpillar sense of taste

Check out The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sense of Taste. Introduce your child to banana, satsumas, kiwi, grapes and raisins, and red apples with this messy play activity.

Adventures of Adam Caterpillar life cycle from Insect Lore

Watch not watch your own caterpillars grow and change into butterflies with a Butterfly Garden. Read how we raised our own caterpillars at home.

We have teamed up with our favourite bloggers to create an A-Z Play At Home Series. We are starting the series with the letter C:

Cars and Clothespin Roads // Teach Me Mommy

Car Passing Social Skills Game // Bambini Travel

Car Small World Play // The Gingerbread House

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Filed Under: Creative Activities, Play Activities, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: Animal themed play, Arts and Craft Activities, Book themed play, Fine Motor Activities, Pegs

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  1. Emma Lofthouse-Burch says

    May 19, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    This is such a lovey craft, everybody loves The VIC x

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