So the first printable bundle of the year is here for you to grab.We had a fun january reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and N loved doing all the activities.We are still working on recognising numbers and clipping clothespin .
I have chosen this book as the book of the month and have done many activities the whole month.The activities have been documented on my Instagram.The reason why we love this books are many and few of the things that make us love this book more are
- Story book for little ones .
- learn about fruit and junk for young toddlers .
- Counting for young toddlers .
- Days of the week for older toddlers .
- life cycle of the butterfly for older toddlers .
- One book and so many learning aspects and can be kept in your library for good 5 yrs
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So lets get started with how we did these activities and with the printable for my lovely readers to grab.
Activity I
Feeding the Hungry Caterpillar
Materials Required
- A cardboard Box
- A wrapping paper
- Cardboard cut into pieces as per the shape of printables
- Cello Tape
- Scissor
- Printer
- And the printables
How to do it
Cover the cardboard box with wrapping paper
Cover in such away that you can still open it and take the feeders out.
I have used a small Amazon box and left the opened side unwrapped.
Paste the caterpillar (from the printable) on one side and make a cut for the feeder to pass at the mouth of the caterpillar.
Paste the feeder on the cut cardboard pieces and laminate using a cello tape.
Arrange the feeder in sequence for the young toddlers and in no order for older kids.
Read the book let them grab the food item you read out loud and feed it to the caterpillar.
Click here to download the printable
Activity II & III
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Story Sequencing and Lacing
Materials Required
- Lamination sheet /Printer (I laminate without a printer using hot iron)
- Printer
- Printables
- Punching machine for Lacing Activity
- Green Pipe Cleaner
The Reason why I clubbed the activity is because I have used the same printable print for both the activity
How to do it
Take a print and cut the printables.
I have Cut the fruits as it appears in the book not into single pieces but you can cut it any which way you think your little one would be able to enjoy it.
Activity II
Read the book and let your little one sequence it by placing the printable over the book.And for young reader ,take an A4 sheet write the days of the week and let them put the printables as per the days of the week.
Put the printables in no order and play a memory game without the book. Once they are done sequencing read together.
Take an A4 sheet and write one to five and let them keep the printables as you read the story. It’s a simple counting activity
Activity III
Punch through the printable and while you read the story let the little one use the green pipe cleaner as caterpillar and lace through the printable as the story progress.Lacing is an excellent fine motor activity which strengthens dexterity and hand and eye cordination and also a great excercise for pincer grip.
Activity IV
Click here to download the printable
Materials Required
- Lamination sheet /Printer
- Scissors
- Clothspin
How to do it
Print and laminate the printable.
Cut it into cards.
N is 2 yrs old so we are just doing counting till 5 ,you can use the printable for counting till 10.
First read the story and then do the counting activity.
This is an excellent way to introduce them to counting and also enable them to recognise number in a fun way.
The very Hungry Caterpillar Activity Bundle
Wow this is amazing. We love the book and actually loved the printables and the activities. Great. Way to go..
This book is such an amazing one to have in the books pitara. All these activities just make it more loveable.
This is great Priyadarshani. Hungry Caterpillar was one of my daughter’s favorite books. I am going to introduce it to my son now. Once he is little old, we will so these activities
This book was a rage with my older kid ! She loved the book so much that I had to buy a new one, before she let go of my library copy. But adding a twist to it and making so many activities out of it is super fun!
Kids will definitely love to story books like this which involves activity that raise interest. Love that they have include so many colours in these activities.
My sons love the hungry caterpillar as their best friend. But this is an amazing idea to turn it into a theme for so many activities.
Wow Priyadarshani! What a lovely activity to do with kids. My son loves doing art and craft work and I am sure he’s going to enjoy this. We live in the UK so the teaching pattern is different here. He loves doing artwork at school as well as home. I am really excited to follow your blog post and each step you mentioned here to engage my child . I will share photos with you when we complete this project. Its a great way to keep kids engaged. My son’s teacher would be thrilled to see this too.
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So lovely diy activity. I love DIY and my girl also does the same. I have seen this on your Instagram. This is such lovely activity and I will surely work on this.
I do not have kids yet. But for my Nieces and Nephews, this seems like a really interesting fun activity. I am sure this can be used in a lot of kids parties.
wow.. i absolutely love this bundle. gotta keep it ready for the next time my niece is over as am sure she will have so much fun with it.
Oh, my god, this is such a cute activity book. With all the beautiful colors and a cute little caterpillar’s kids are sure going to have fun playing with this.
i’m in love with the activities you share!! I follow your videos and your IG posts. big fan!!
Wow, this is really an interesting book. Amazing activities for kids. I want this book for my daughter.
These look really superb. Infact, best way to keep kids engaged. I will plan to get for my kids as well.
Loved the hungry Caterpillar feeding box that you made out of cardboard! What a unique idea! Would love to try all!
These books are definitely a fun learning way which will interest every kid
That’s a great fun activity. I will try this with our kids.
The caterpillar feeding box is so creative .I will get it for my daughter I think.Just right for the holidays
This is such an extensively detailed post and I love it. I could never think of turning a book into an activity. I am sure my daughter will love it. Saving the post.
This is fantastic. We love the hungry caterpillar and all the many things it teaches us. I love the lacing activity and It would be so much fun to do this with babyT. I am going to do this for sure
Love the graphic work you did behind this printable set! Great job mama❤ loved it
Hungry caterpillar is our favorite book too. I had never thought of this activity. Will definitely try this out. LittleD will enjoy for sure.
I had tried reading this book to my N long back but he somehow never took interest in it. Maybe I should try again now that he’s older and I’m sure he will love these activities along with it
Awesomely interesting activities. i really liked d way how u have created multiple activities with same theme. going to try this for sure.
This is so cute, my little one loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar and counting those little fruits. This will be a fun activity.
We love the hungry caterpillar and other Eric Carle books.. n i would definitely try some of the activities that you sharef here.. it would be so much fun.
Would like to have this, my son is already showing interest while I am commenting here.
Seems like they have awesome collection of activity books for toddlers and growing kids. Need to check out.
wow… amazing activity for kids. Its colorful and engaging too.