Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

To kick off our Butterfly Week
We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
A Classic!



I have read this book many a time to Miss S.
She loves it!
So we decided to take it one step further.
We decided to make a puppet to go along with the book.


We cut up a egg carton.
And we painted it.

Instead of using a paintbrush,
We used a cut up sponge and clothes pin.
It was fun to use something different to paint with
We kinda like doing that.

I extended the activity by pulling out my stencils,
so she paint with those too.

We also sang the song "Butterfly"
It goes through the life cycle of a butterfly,
Using to tune of up on the house top. (So it's catchy.)

For our Butterfly theme we leared a lot about Eric Carle. First we made Our Own Eric Carle Butterflies, we also made A Very Hungary Caterpillar book, and lastly we made a butterfly box to fly around in,
Here are the Butterfly Books we are Reading This Week:
Fly Monarch, Fly!
By NancyWallace

This is a really in depth book about the
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
That is really on a child's level.

Yeah for Butterfly Week!

Linked to:http://www.ordinarylifemagic.com/

Posted by My Oatmeal Kisses at 6:03 PM
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM

    We love that book. I made a Very Hungry Caterpillar hat for my daughter awhile ago. Right now we are raising butterflies. SO MUCH FUN!!!
    Andrea
    PS. Here's the hat, if you're interested in taking a look!
    http://addicted2tutes.blogspot.com/2011/03/hungry-caterpillar-sun-hat.html

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  2. EstherMay 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    Andrea, you should also post where you ordered the catapillars to raise butterflies! That would be a fun educational project too.

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  3. Ashley WilsonMay 4, 2011 at 5:51 PM

    This is such a great project! I love that you can see the paint on her hands and arms in the first pic. p.s. your blog is looking so cute- the layout is fab!

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  4. AnonymousMay 4, 2011 at 9:44 PM

    I'm doing the caterpillars with my 2nd grade class (more in depth) and my daughter's preschool. We ordered the caterpillars from insectlore.com:
    http://www.shop-insectlore.com/Butterflies/.

    Also, you could do an art project creating the butterfly body out of construction paper and then two handprints on each side of the body to form the wings.

    Also, here's a fun idea to show the life cycle of the caterpillars using different pastas:
    http://atozteacherstuff.com/pages/276.shtml

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  5. OurWanderingAdventures May 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    CUTE! Just saw this! haha! We're making ours out of clothespins, so that they can then use them as book marks!

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  6. My Oatmeal KissesMay 4, 2011 at 11:05 PM

    Andrea thanks for all of your fantastic ideas! I'll have to order butterflies next year!

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  7. My Oatmeal KissesMay 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM

    Michelle, What a great idea. Clothespins, who would have thought!?

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  8. My Oatmeal KissesMay 4, 2011 at 11:08 PM

    Thanks Ashley! You're the best!

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  9. HelenaMay 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    I love it when beautiful ideas bounce out of books, lay themselves in front of you and say, Let's play/explore/make/think/do! It's always magic, isn't it?

    All the things you did look lovely, and your girl looks so happy, so content and absorbed. What a sweet post—thank you :)

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  10. MichelleMay 9, 2011 at 7:48 AM

    That if funny!! Great minds do think a like.

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