The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Inside: A collection of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

This is our MOST POPULAR learning shelf based on our favorite story book The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Wonderful story and beautiful illustrations, this book is a must have in every children’s library. We created a whole shelf of learning activities that will be sure to delight every little Hungry Caterpillar fan!

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Learning Shelf

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Learning Activities and Shelf — The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities and Learning Shelf

All the activities are categorized into following six main learning areas:

language
numeracy
motor skills
discovery of the world
arts & creative expression
social & emotional development.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR ACTIVITIES FOR TODDLERS

Drop pom pom into a caterpillar tissue box (motor skills)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar fine motor pompom drop

Feed the caterpillar by threading felt food cut outs or these food print outs (punch a hole in each of them) through a green pipe cleaner (motor skills)

The Very Hungry caterpillar Threading Activity

Dot Letter C with dot paint. (language)

Punch out circles using a circle craft puncher and use the circles to make a caterpillar letter C (language)

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOLERS

Punch holes in a leaf print out with the 26 letters written all around the leaf, following the sequence A to Z (language, motor skills)

The very hungry caterpillar letter search motor skill activity

Peg the letters of the child’s name to make a caterpillar (language, motor skills)

Caterpillar name letter matching and pegging

Thread the paper leaves with the words containing 虫 as the radical (部首) through the popsicle stick caterpillar. (language)

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Caterpillar Chinese Word Learning Activity

Cut and paste the days of week and fruits on paper plates and make a paper plate caterpillar (language, numeracy, motor skills)

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The Very Hungry caterpillar Food and Days of the Week activity

Make pattern using pom poms (numeracy)

The Very Hungry caterpillar Pattern Activity

Measure caterpillars using cardboard ruler (numeracy)

The Very Hungry caterpillar Measurement Activity

Play a graphing game with a DIY spinner. Give a sticker to the fruit the spinner points to. View the video on how to play the game here. (numeracy)

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The Very Hungry caterpillar Graphing Activity

DIY nested life cycle of butterfly puzzle. View the video of this puzzle in action here. (discovery of the world)

The Very Hungry caterpillar DIY cardboard puzzle

Match names and photos to plastic figures of egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly and learn about life cycle of caterpillar. (discovery of the world, language)