{"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 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 and then they will change into butterflies.<\/div>\n
\"Collaborative<\/div>\n
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My other two children have been fascinated, although I have been having a bit of trouble with my youngest. She prefers lifting them up, rather than gently turning the pot around. The perils of taking a toddler on the school run.<\/div>\n

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

Collaborative Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft<\/h2>\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

Making Butterflies<\/h2>\n
This was another two part exercise due to my eldest being in school. We try as much as we can to do arts and crafts altogether, but it\u2019s not always possible during the week with school and pre-school to factor in.<\/div>\n
\"Simple<\/div>\n
Toddlers and Pre-schoolers<\/strong><\/div>\n
1.\u00a0I cut out a butterfly shape from white paper.
\n2.\u00a0We used Dot Markers to make coloured dots all over one side of the
\npaper.
\n3.\u00a0We then folded over the paper and rubbed down hard. Then gently pulled it
\napart to create the same pattern onto the other side of the paper. My
\ntoddler doesn\u2019t really comprehend gentle, so I helped her along with this
\npart of the task.
\n4.\u00a0We then finished them off with black pipe cleaners for the antennae and of
\ncourse some googly eyes.<\/div>\n
Older Children<\/strong><\/div>\n
When my son came home from school he wanted to do something a bit different. I gave him a sheet of tracing paper (we just used a sheet of my baking paper) and he traced some butterflies from a book. He then used felt tips pens on the tracing paper to colour them in. Felt pens are perfect for tracing paper; crayons wouldn\u2019t really be a strong enough colour to look as effective. We then displayed them altogether.<\/div>\n

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