{"id":1020,"date":"2014-05-25T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/25\/mini-beasts-part-2-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:31","slug":"mini-beasts-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/mini-beasts-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"
My son\u2019s class have been doing lots of different arts and crafts activities around this theme, to help them with their own understanding. So we decided to have a go at some caterpillar and butterfly themed crafts as well. To help my younger kids understand and to reinforce what my son has been learning at school.<\/p>\n
My son\u2019s class has made a giant \u201cVery Hungry Caterpillar\u201d out of paper plates. This has been displayed across the whole of one of the classroom walls. It looks fantastic, but I didn\u2019t think I could quite get away with such a huge piece of art work at home. So we set about making our own smaller version, which we could all contribute too like my son\u2019s class had done.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0Drawing around the lid of a playdoh tub, we made circles onto white paper. The boys then cut out their own circles, whilst I drew and cut some out for my toddler.
\n2.\u00a0Each of my\u00a0kids helped to mix up different shades of green by adding white paint to green paint to make it progressively lighter. My pre-schooler was very interested in this and my toddler was a very enthusiastic paint mixer.
\n3.\u00a0Each of the kids painted three of the circles with the different green paints.\u00a0Any my eldest was in charge of one larger circle for the head and two rectangular strips of paper for the antennae. These were painted red.
\n4.\u00a0Once these were dry I then glued the circles together to make a caterpillar. We then added googly eyes and a smile.<\/p>\n
My eldest son had a very exciting delivery to this classroom last week. Five baby caterpillars. We have been eagerly checking them each school morning to see how much they have grown. They are growing at quite apace.\u00a0 My son has been explaining to his siblings about how they are going to turn into cocoons … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253,205],"tags":[192,193,40],"yoast_head":"\n