This caterpillar to butterfly clothespin craft is fun to make with fuzzy pompoms and crinkly tissue paper. The caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly with two easy steps.
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This caterpillar to butterfly clothespin craft can help you explore butterflies and caterpillars with your early learners. The activity initiates conversation about the life of a caterpillar and the wonder of its transformation to a butterfly.
Caterpillars are one of the most obliging insects to be observed – they move slowly, they’re very quiet and they’re not afraid to crawl over your hand. Butterflies, on the other hand, like to flit and fly at a moment’s notice.
Both of these movements can be imitated by kids for gross motor movement.
- Kids can crawl like a caterpillar, then crouch low, wraps arms around legs to make a cocoon shape.
- Stretch arms out to the side like wings, then rise slowly up out of the ‘cocoon’ and swoop up and down like a butterfly.
Have fun exploring the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly with this clothespin craft.
Caterpillar to butterfly activity
You will need.
- chenille stem or pipe cleaner
- tissue paper
- large clothespin
Make the caterpillar.
1. Paint the clothespin green.
2. Glue greenpompoms to the clothespin.
3. Open the clothespin.
4. Insert chenille stem. Bend tips to form the antenna.
Transform the caterpillar to a butterfly.
1. Cut out a long rectangular piece of tissue. Make rounded wing shapes on either end.
2. Open the clothespin. Insert the middle portion of the tissue. Bunch up the tissue to fit inside the open end of the clothespin.
3. Place the chenille stem antennae into the clothespin after the tissue is secured.
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