The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of our favorite Eric Carle books. Sometime back we created life cycle of Butterfly art to go along with the book. This time we acted out the story using magnetic pom poms and the magnetic very hungry caterpillar.
Materials Used: Cookie tray, white Magnetic pom pom, CD(Taped to the tray using masking tape), Green construction paper leave
Materials Used: Cookie tray taped with construction papers(for blue sky and ground backdrop), Magnetic hungry caterpillar, Yellow magnetic pom poms
On Monday, he ate through one apple
On Tuesday, he ate through two oranges
On Wednesday, he ate through three blue berries
On Thursday, he ate through four Bananas
On Friday, he ate through five strawberries
On Saturday he ate through lots of foods, We didn't do all of them. We just read through the pages.
On Sunday, He ate through a single green leaf
We placed our very hungry caterpillar inside a TP roll(Cocoon)
Materials Used: Cookie tray, Magnetic hungry caterpillar, construction papers, Toilet paper roll
For the body of the butterfly, We used magnetic hungry caterpillar and For the wings, we used magnetic pom poms
CJ was super excited when she completed her beautiful butterfly. She said "Mommy the butterfly was feeling lonely, so look what I did!"
"In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf."
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Materials Used: Cookie tray, white Magnetic pom pom, CD(Taped to the tray using masking tape), Green construction paper leave
Sun came up and Pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar
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Materials Used: Cookie tray taped with construction papers(for blue sky and ground backdrop), Magnetic hungry caterpillar, Yellow magnetic pom poms
For the next few pages, we tailored the fruit names based on the pom poms we had
On Monday, he ate through one apple
On Tuesday, he ate through two oranges
On Wednesday, he ate through three blue berries
On Thursday, he ate through four Bananas
On Friday, he ate through five strawberries
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On Saturday he ate through lots of foods, We didn't do all of them. We just read through the pages.
On Sunday, He ate through a single green leaf
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He built a small house, called Cocoon, around himself
We placed our very hungry caterpillar inside a TP roll(Cocoon)
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Materials Used: Cookie tray, Magnetic hungry caterpillar, construction papers, Toilet paper roll
He was a Beautiful Butterfly
For the body of the butterfly, We used magnetic hungry caterpillar and For the wings, we used magnetic pom poms
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CJ was super excited when she completed her beautiful butterfly. She said "Mommy the butterfly was feeling lonely, so look what I did!"
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Oh my! How cute and fun fun fun! Love the idea of using magnets!
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Maggy
Oh! So nice! I love it :)
ReplyDeleteWe're using The Very Hungry Caterpillar next week & can't wait to use some of your ideas! Very cute!!
ReplyDeleteOh this is amazing- my daughter would love it. Pompoms are not easily available here so I would have to adapt it to some other globular stuff! Thank You for the ideas
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Sonia
http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com
There is clever and looks so fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to re-enact the story! Thanks for linking it up to Monday Madness.
ReplyDeleteI love how you re-told the story using these magnets and pom poms.
ReplyDeleteGreat job!!! thanks for sharing on the Sunday Showcase. I always look forward to seeing what you've been up to!
Bern
LOve love love this idea and love the magnetic pom poms. So many things that can be done with that. I am so excited to have found your blog through Monday Madness. Hope you link up again tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteSo cute! We are about to have a hungry caterpillar 1st birthday party at our house. Wish I'd seen this a couple weeks ago =-) Hopefully I post pictures by mid next week. I would love for you to link up at http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
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