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Peg Butterfly from The Very Hungry Caterpillar

June 20, 2015 by Emma Edwards 5 Comments

18 months ago Adam created a Very Hungry Caterpillar made from pegs, based on the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (affiliate link). The caterpillar is proudly displayed in our dining room.

Adventures of Adam The Hungry Caterpillar clothespin

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After the wonderful experience of our Butterfly Garden from Imagido we were inspired to extend our very Hungry Caterpillar into a peg butterfly.

Adventures of Adam Hungry Caterpillar and butterfly made from pegs

To create our butterfly’s body and wings I used soft twist plant ties purchased from the garden section of B&M (also available from Amazon). The wire was easy to manipulate and any sharp pieces were covered. I added antenna by winding together a blue and purple pipe cleaner.

Adventures of Adam Butterfly made from wire

Due to the weight of our Hungry Caterpillar and our experience of making the clothespin heart over on Red Ted Art, I opted to use miniature wooden pegs for our butterfly. For our Hungry Caterpillar I painted our pegs using the zip-loc bag method. However, this time I purchased multi-coloured minature pegs.

Adventures of Adam Mini coloured pegs

I demonstrated to Adam how to create a repeating pattern with the coloured pegs and how to place them around the butterfly’s wings. It was a great activity to reinforce Adam’s colour recognition and fine motor skills. Although Adam needed support with this as the small pegs were difficult to manipulate, he thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.

Adventures of Adam Peg butterfly

With one half of the butterfly completed we attempted to get  the other wing exactly the same.

Adventures of Adam Butterfly made from pegs

We now have the complete set of characters from the Very Hungry Caterpillar story. We have our own peg caterpillar and peg butterfly.

Adventures of Adam Peg Hungry Caterpillar and butterfly

That is not all – pop over to Imagido and you can find out how to create your own Very Hungry Caterpillar Game!

Adventures of Adam DIY Hungry Caterpillar game

 

Equipment:

* Soft Twist Plant Tie available from B&M and Amazon

* Multi-coloured minature pegs – we used a pack of 100 pegs

* Blue and purple pipe cleaner

 

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  1. Tarana Khan says

    June 24, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Love this! The colours you used really capture the style of the illustrations in the book.

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  2. Maddy@writingbubble says

    June 24, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    This looks great! My toddler love the Very Hungry Caterpillar at the mo so he’d love to make these! #minicreations

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  3. Sarah of Catching the Magic says

    June 24, 2015 at 11:27 pm

    Oh wow, these are all SO beautiful! LOVE these ideas and the photographs too. Beautiful x

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  4. Karen Bell says

    June 25, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    What a lovely idea. The hungry caterpillar is such a fab story and lends itself so well to lots of crafts. This is a great activity and teaches so much, as well as looking lovely at the end.
    Thanks for linking #LetKidsbeKids

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  5. kidglloves says

    June 25, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Lucas says – I loved the Hungry Caterpillar when I was smaller and this is one of the best art thingys I’ve seen for the Hungry Caterpillar.
    The Mother says – We know you’ve linked this to #minicreations too but when we saw this over #letkidsbekids we couldn’t resist commenting sooner but will be back over with KG soon 🙂

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