Caterpillar and butterfly peg craft
Last week we had a free day with no plans, so I asked my girls what they wanted to do. They replied “I want to make a caterpillar”. Ok, so “how are you going to make a caterpillar?” I answered. They said “we can get some balls and stick them together in a line, then put on some eyes”.
I love it when my children come up with the ideas themselves, it’s got to be the best way to craft. So here’s how we made some caterpillars……
Caterpillar pegs craft
You need:
- Pegs
- Pompom balls
- Glue
- Googly eyes
How to make them:
- Glue the pompoms in a line onto the peg.
- Glue the googly eyes onto the front and there you have the simplest caterpillar craft around.
These caterpillars were very easy, fun and encouraged a lot of fine motor skill practice. They also look quite effective.
Once we had finished the caterpillars, we started talking about the life of a caterpillar and how it turns into a butterfly. We read the book ‘the very hungry caterpillar’ to remind us of its life cycle and as it’s spring, we decided to make some butterflies too.
Butterfly peg craft
You need:
- Pegs
- Pens
- Scissors
- Glue
- Card
- Pompom
- Googly eyes
To make them:
- Draw a butterfly shape onto some card and cut it out.
- Decorate with pretty patterns.
- Glue the wings onto the peg.
- Glue the Pompom onto the top.
- Stick on the googly eyes.
There you have your beautiful butterflies alongside your caterpillars to play with and learn about the life cycle of a butterfly!
We all had a lot of fun making these, there was no mess, they used their own creativity, imagination and fine motor skills at the same time as learning about butterflies too.
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These are brilliant, what a good idea
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Brilliant! Love that they thought of it themselves! When Boo’s a bit older I’m going to dedicate a cupboard to crafty stuff to have at the ready for requests such as this!! Love that you then made butterflies too! Brilliant! #CreativeChallenge
Thanks, we have a good craft cupboard for all those spur of the moment crafts
So cute! I love them:)
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shes so in love with what shes doing =)
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Yes, they did enjoy it
These are so effective. Potato is starting to get a bit more imaginative with his craft so something like this would be ideal!
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Fab, have a go, it’s so easy!
Oh I can’t wait til the boys are old enough to do things like this! The caterpillars look brilliant!
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Simple and effective, great idea. the butterflies would look fab hung in a row in my daughters bedroom, I’m off to buy some pegs, mine are plastic!!
Fantastic! I hope you all have fun
I LOVE that they came up with this activity, that is just brilliant! Your girls are following in your crafty footsteps
They look so cute too, so simple and effective, brilliant. Thanks so much for linking with #creativechallenge xx 
Thank you, I must admit I am very pleased they like crafts. I hope it continues
These are great! And, it love that they came up with the idea themselves x #MiniCreations
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Such a great yet simple idea-lovely. And even more so because they came up with it themselves too
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This is so easy to do, I’d really like to try it out! It’s wonderful that your kids came up with the idea. #CreativeChallenge
These are great
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Brilliant idea. Simple and easy.
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I am loving those Karen!! they are super simple yet beautifully effective the caterpillars are my faves! x
Thank you, they are very easy x
What a great idea! They look great and not too difficult to do x
They were so easy, but fun
What a fab idea, so simple and cute #savourtheseason
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a great idea! We love looking at caterpillars and butterflies so this is a great craft idea to introduce the kids to it #savouringtheseason
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They look brilliant. I do love how they came up with it themselves, too. Very creative!
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Oh I LOVE these and those butterflies are too cute. Thanks so much for sharing with the Monday #pinitparty. Have pinned and shared/
Thank you, they were so simple to do
My four year old daughter would LOVE making these! Thanks so much for sharing this idea. I will pin and share. My Pinterest ID is http://www.pinterest.com/byelsieb
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Very very cute caterpillars
Great idea and I love the little faces on the butterflies too!
Thank you, we loved making them
Grace says – these are FAB. What a great idea!
Lucas says – These look awesome but I can’t make these. It would mean me using the Mother’s clothes pegs which would give her another excuse not to do the laundry!!!
Thanks for linking to #minicreations
Thank you, very simple, but fun
Loving these… And how lovely that they came up with it themselves… They’ve obviously inherited their mother’s creative gene!! Thanks for linking up with #SavouringtheSeason
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Adorable! I”ll be using this idea with my preschool story time group
Oh great, hope you have fun with them
They are so cute!
Thanks for linking with us #pintorials
Thanks x