The Very Hungry Caterpillar Again

As promised, I picked a craft from the books I bought yesterday, made some modifications and did it with Sophie today. Finally, I know how to make a caterpillar! I started off hoping to coincide the craft work with Earth Day, but I could not find any toilet rolls (the cardboard is very hard to cut and punch holes). So, I cut and rolled up construction paper, then I taped the shorter ends together using double-sided tape. The original craft required yarn to join and connect the rolls, but I only have twine... Well, not pretty but functional still.

I thought since Sophie loves to paint her hand, I should let her have something to hold in her hand so that she would paint it. And it worked! For a while anyway... Then she started painted the highchair tray and I quickly got her to roll the paper on the paint to achieve another sort of painting effect.

Not too bad... by the time she was done, the paper rolls seemed pretty colourful. However, they took really long to dry because I used fingerpaint instead of tempura paint.

After a couple of hours, I threaded the twine through each paper roll and created the caterpillar. It actually looked better than I had expected, especially after the pipe cleaners and plastic eyes were attached. Even Sophie likes to fling it around and play with it... Of course she does!

End Product - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Now, the caterpillar sits on my window sill...