Simple Caterpillar Crafts

In addition to the Easter and spring crafts we have made recently, these are some caterpillar crafts that my son and I have been working on in the last week.

This post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you!These crafts are perfect for a tie-in with The Very Hungry Caterpillar book.Egg Carton Caterpillar

I cut a large egg carton in half length-ways and gave F some green paint. He didn’t get full coverage so I did have to help him a bit. After the paint had dried I added pipe cleaners, googly eyes and drew on a smile!

Handprint Caterpillar

After F had got all messy from painting the egg cartons, I got some green painty handprints from him, placing them all in a row so that the palms made the caterpillar body and the fingers made the legs. Then I added a craft foam head, glued on googly eyes and drew in the other features.

Sponge Print Caterpillar I got some green and yellow paint and showed F how to make a caterpillar shape with a round sponge. This was my demonstration picture:

And this was how he copied it. Almost identical! Ahem.

But with a few added details both pictures could be made into caterpillars.

Paper Plate Caterpillar

For the crafts above I used small paper plates as paint trays, and collected them afterwards.

After they had dried I taped the plates together, then drew on the details. It looks really cute on the mantelpiece!