The week we made the Very Hungry Caterpillar Story…

At the welcome circle we talked about the book without showing it, I asked the Woodchips who was in the book and what happened.  We then went and made

The Very Hungry Caterpillar on a Leaf

Green card cut out into a leaf shape, pom poms for the body, cotton bud ends for the antennae and the middle bits saved for the legs and eyes from pipe cleaners.

Next I gave out the food cards that I had printed from here & the Woodchips decorated them anyway they wanted

And finally we made our beautiful butterflies with inspiration from the Nurture Store and just to be different I hid the paint brushes and we used a cut up washing up sponge (2 textures) and cotton buds to do the painting

After snack time we played the Very Hungry Caterpillar Game

The children walk/run/march in a large circle and when I shot out they make the shape

Butterfly – flap your ‘wings’

Caterpillar – Lay on the floor and wriggle

Apple – Curl up in a ball

Leaf – Stand and wave about in the wind

Read the Very Hungry Caterpillar

I gave out the caterpillars, food pictures and butterflies and then read the story and asked everyone to hold up their pictures at that part.