Hungry Caterpillar Craft: Free Template for Kids to Cut-and-Paste

Get this CUTE, EASY, and FREE cut-and-paste caterpillar craft for kids to make as they enjoy reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Children will love lifting…

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Get this CUTE, EASY, and FREE cut-and-paste caterpillar craft for kids to make as they enjoy reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Children will love lifting the flaps as they learn numbers, days of the week, or colors.

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Your children and students will have so much fun making a hungry caterpillar craft that’s the perfect book extension activity to make while reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. You can choose from the 3 free craft templates to help your kids learn numbers, name colors, or practice the days of the week, thanks to Eric Carle, who is so talented at packing learning opportunities on every page. Once the caterpillar craft is assembled, kids can lift the flaps to see a picture inside. My preschooler and kindergartner love reading the words on their caterpillar craft–it’s a great way to motivate my young readers and yours. 🙂

While you’re here, check out our 100 page Hungry Caterpillar Activity Pack! It’s full of engaging activities for your little learner. Click Here to find out more. 

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Since my children were little we have enjoyed reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I remember recording Little Tiger “reading” the book at age 2 because she had every word memorized. Little Dragon is well on his way to remembering each page and asks me to read him the caterpillar book every day. I am guessing you and your child have the same love for The Very Hungry Caterpillar and for book activities. While you are here, be sure to check out the rest of our Book Activities to go along with your Child’s Favorite Book.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Little Dragon (age 4) liked cutting out the square pieces for his craft and Little Dragon (age 6) asked to see the book so she could make sure to sequence her craft to match the book.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

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Hungry Caterpillar Craft

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Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Supplies:

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Template
Red, Green, and Yellow Craft Paper-affiliate link (I like using cardstock for crafts because it gives them strength and bright color)

White paper

Paint, markers, pencils, or crayons

Scissors

Glue

Stapler

Directions:

For your convenience, you can print the directions at the end of this post. 

Fold the yellow paper in half (hot dog style), cut along the fold, and then staple the two pieces together to form a long rectangle.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Print the caterpillar’s face and feet on red paper and have your child color it. We used our favorite Fast-Dry Paint Stix-affiliate link because they show up well on colored paper and are mess free.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Print the caterpillar body flaps out on green paper and cut them out. Little Tiger cut all 7 of her pieces with no problem but Little Dragon wanted some assistance. Be prepared to help, take a break, or spread this craft over a few days because there is a lot of cutting.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Print out the flap pictures and have your child color them and then cut them out. We used markers because some of the pictures are a bit small.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Fold each flap so the word is on the outside. Match the flap pictures with each flap and glue the picture on the inside.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

Place the caterpillar pieces on the yellow paper making sure they are in the correct order and then glue them down. Make sure to keep the flaps close together so they can all fit. If your child runs out of room it’s no big deal, just staple another piece of yellow paper to the end.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

My preschooler and kindergartner had lots of fun making this craft and helping their caterpillar eat an apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges…and of course a green leaf. (Guess how many times I have heard that in the last day…now it’s your turn :). I really hope you and your kiddos enjoy reading and crafting together! <3 Please pin the photo below to help others enjoy it too.

Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)

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Hey, before you go be sure to check out our Hungry Caterpillar Activity Pack that includes this craft and a total of 100 pages of language activities, math activities, science activities, and more. Click Here for Details

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Printable Activity Pack: This adorable pack of engaging activities will teach children letters, numbers, phonics, fine motor skills, shapes, life cycle of a butterfly, nutrition, days of the week, and more. It makes teaching and learning fun and easy. (#preschool #kindergarten #printables #kidsactivities #homeschool)

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Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft and Free Template: 3 craft templates for kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors. (Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Spring, Bugs, Book Extension)
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Hungry Caterpillar Flap Book Craft

Choose from 3 free craft templates that allow kids to practice the days of the week, counting to 5, or naming colors thanks to Eric Carle and the Very Hungry Caterpillar. 
Total Time40 minutes
Keyword: Animal Kingdom, Craft, Eric Carle, Spring

Materials

Instructions

  • Fold yellow paper in half (hot dog style), cut along the fold, and then staple the two pieces together to form a long rectangle.
  • Print the caterpillar face and feet on red paper and have your child color it. We used our favorite Fast-Dry Paint Stix-affiliate link because they show up well on colored paper and are mess free.
    The printable is available here: https://alittlepinchofperfect.com/hungry-caterpillar-flap-book-craft-and-free-template/
  • Print the caterpillar body flaps out on green paper and cut them out.
  • Print out the flap pictures and have your child color them and then cut them out.
  • Fold each flap so the word is on the outside. Match the flap pictures with each flap and glue the picture on the inside.
  • Place the caterpillar pieces on the yellow paper making sure they are in the correct order and then glue them down. Make sure to keep the flaps close together so they can all fit. If your child runs out of room it's no big deal, just staple another piece of yellow paper to the end.

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22 comments

  1. I am having a hard time downloading this free template.

    The link is just taking me back to the same page.

    Could you please email it to me?
    casie.dwyer@ocps.net

    Thank you!

    1. I’m sorry if it’s not working. My printables are hosted by Gumroad. Hopefully the button loads that says “I want this.” If you add an email and an amount ($0 is okay) it should work if technology is on our side. If it doesn’t work you can send me an e-mail and I can send it to you as a pdf. I’m crossing my fingers it works. 🙂

  2. Your stuffs are great! :))

    We gonna use in our Preschool for second year your caterpillar activity.

    Thanks a bunch!

  3. These activities are engrossing and interesting. Thanks so much

  4. Just found your site and this caterpillar activity is adorable! Love it and so will my preschoolers!

  5. I am a preschool teacher always interested in new ideas! Thank you 🙂

  6. Thank you so much for your ideas!
    Marcella

  7. Thank you so much for sharing these great activities ! I will try with my nephew and niece this weekend 🙂

  8. Thank you so much. I cant wait to use this in my kindy.
    Its going to be so great.
    There isnso much to be taken from the one resource
    Maths… literacy…fine motor
    Thank.you x

  9. I love this story and I have a lot of material about it even my students performed a play, it was amazing, now I’m going to do a review with this material, I’m sure they are going to enjoy it. I’m a preschool English teacher in Mexico City
    Thank you

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