Paper collages inspired by Eric Carle’s picture book illustrations Then, encourage them to break free from the toilet paper cocoons as little butterflies and flap their wings! If you want, you could create and decorate your own cardboard butterfly wings, to make the whole activity even more memorable for your children. Ask them to imagine being little caterpillars, preparing to emerge as butterflies. Wrap children up in toilet paper as they stand still, arms at their sides. How you do it: Once you finish reading the story, ask children their thoughts on how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly - and why? Then, to make that transformation process stick, you can practice it in your classroom. How it connects to The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Here’s where you tackle a core question: how does a caterpillar even turn into a beautiful butterfly? This is a great experimental learning activity for children to understand better the metamorphosis taking place in the book, through a fun representation of how the former caterpillar emerges in its new form. Use toilet paper cocoons to explore metamorphosis In the end, you can pause the reading and help them count all the fruits the caterpillar will have eaten by counting the little piles of fruits they’ve collected up to that point. It’s also important to count and take the same amounts of apples, pears, strawberries and so on. How you do it: As you get to the part where the caterpillar’s eating the different types of fruits, encourage the little ones to recognize and pick the same types of fruits from the fruit basket. A basket with the same fruits as those in the book (like pears, plums, strawberries, oranges and grapes).On top of that, to add the fun factor to this lesson, you can encourage children to pretend they’re feeding The Very Hungry Caterpillar each piece of fruit as you read along with the story.
How it connects to The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Children get to learn about the different fruits that our hungry caterpillar eats, and discuss healthy eating and food choices while they sort and count their fruit.
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