Easy Sock Caterpillars

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is still the favourite book at our house, so here we go with another caterpillar craft.
This one is really simple all you need are some socks (odd ones would do) I brought two cheap stripy pairs, newspaper, elastic bands and googly eyes (the ones we had were adhesive).

All ready for crafting!

Scrunching the paper into balls to pop into the sock.

Master E concentrating very hard to push the paper into the sock.

Pushing the paper down, down, down into the bottom of the sock.

Miss M busy ripping as much of the paper as she could!

Showing off their finished caterpillars.

Close up of the finished product. I used the elastic bands to segment the body. The kids added their own eyes, which I later glued on with the hot glue gun.

Easy peasy craft in an afternoon. Miss M found this one rather tricky and I made most of hers. Master E was great at filling up his sock.
ENJOY!

Beautiful Butterflies ~ Inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is the current favourite book in our house so we have been trying to think of as many butterfly and caterpillar related crafts as we can.


You will need some thin coloured card, clear contact and we used pre cut paper mosaic squares.

I had already pre cut the shapes of the butterflies and and stuck the contact to the back so there was a  sticky side for the children to stick there squares straight onto, no need for glue.

Miss L very carefully sticking her squares onto the contact.

Miss M was having lots of fun once she got the idea.

Miss G, took the most care and was very carefully putitng her squares on. She was very carefully selecting the colours and seeking out the pink!

Master E had a different approach. Just tip as many of the squares as you can and then shake off the rest. A very efficient way of getting you butterfly decorated.

Testing one of the butterflies on our window to see how it looked. 

Busy creating, and having fun spreading the mosaic squares across the lounge room.

Miss G very proudly showing off her finished butterfly.

The finished masterpieces. Looking fabulous!!!