This quick and easy craft project will delight your child. Added fun with extension activities.
Supplies:
construction paper
glue
wiggly eyes
markers
card stock paper or white construction paper
yellow & green paint or markers
Directions:
First I cut out the circles in various bright colors. No need to be perfect or all the same size. If you child is old enough you could have them trace a circle and then cut around the lines.
Next have the kids paint or use markers to color the grass on the bottom of the card stock paper, and paint or use markers to make a yellow sun in the sky. They can be creative and paint other outdoor friends if they would like. They could add cloud in the sky or paint the sky blue as well. Creativity is endless.
Once the paper is dry then they can start gluing the colored circles to the paper to make a caterpillar. Add wiggly eyes, have them draw a mouth and antennas and little legs off of each circle except for the face circle.
For the butterfly we also used 2 circles for wings and drew the body of the butterfly. Add antennas and the kids can be creative to enhance their beautiful butterfly with paint and/or markers.
Extension Activities:
Book: We then each held our caterpillars as we read, The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The kids found it so fun to pretend to be eating pretend fruits as we read the book. Then their beautiful butterfly was to signify the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly.
Song: (sung to Twinkle Twinkle)
Caterpillar, caterpillar
How are you?
Busy, busy, for today!
Tomorrow I'll be a butterfly,
Then you can see me fly away.
Butterfly, butterfly, fly away,
Come again another day!
