Cute Caterpillar Craft: Make your own Polysterene Ball Caterpillar!
We’re back looking at Creative Collective Nouns this month and Orla and I have made a cute caterpillar to celebrate the phrase an Army of Caterpillars. It’s funny but I think an army of ants and a train of caterpillars would suit them better!
I love how a book can really inspire Orla. She is three and obviously can’t read but she memorises the stories and reads them to me for bedtime reading! She can often be found making herself a little den in which to plonk herself and read. One of her favourites at the moment is the ubiquitous ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and so we made a wiggly caterpillar for her to pull along complete with tipply topply legs made from push pins. If you love this then do take a look at the last #CreativeNounCrafts series I did with a group of other craft’s bloggers. There were some gorgeous craft ideas all based around collective nouns. Last time we made a cute buzzy bee from a toilet roll.
How to make a Wriggly Caterpillar
If you’d like to make ‘A Wriggly Caterpillar’, you will need…..
- Large Polysterene Balls
- PVA Glue
- Thread and a large needle (as long as your polysterene ball)
- Tissue Paper
- Push Pins
- Googly Eyes
- Pipe cleaners
- Start by covering your polysterene balls with glue and then wrapping them up with brightly coloured tissue paper. This is sticky fun for little hands!
- Next, take a large needle and thread and ‘sew’ the polysterene balls together. You will need to make sure you have a long needle for this, an embroidery one is best. Be sure to tie a large not in the end and leave some extra thread at the front so that the caterpillar can be pulled along!
- Stick on two googly eyes and a mouth made out of pipe cleaner.
- Curling a pipe cleaner around your finger, make an antennae and poke it into the top of the caterpillar’s head, you may need to make a hole with your pipe cleaner to do this.
- Lastly, take some push pins and push them into the bottom of the pipe cleaner to make scuttling/ army legs! We also found a mini pom pom push pin to add as a tail and nose! Cute!
- And there you have it – your own wriggly caterpillar!
