At present, I welcome Tot Faculty Sources to share an cute little Valentine’s Preschool Craft – Coronary heart Caterpillars! That is such a stunning exercise for little ones, as they’ll merely make their cute Valentine’s Caterpillar, or they’ll make one so long as their identify or observe counting and sequencing expertise. Personally, we love making identify Coronary heart Caterpillars one of the best!
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Hello, I’m Shari from Tot Faculty Sources.
I make youngsters crafts, actions, and studying concepts for toddlers by means of early elementary.
I’m a homeschool mother of two younger ladies so a lot of my gadgets are geared in direction of homeschooling or smaller teams however many issues can be utilized in a classroom too, like this cute Valentine’s Day Caterpillar made out of hearts!
Make Cute Valentine’s Day Caterpillars with Your Class!
Valentine’s Day is true across the nook, and for those who’re on the lookout for a enjoyable, artistic, and heartwarming classroom mission, this Valentine’s Day Caterpillar craft is ideal!
Not solely is it easy and fascinating, but it surely additionally encourages youngsters to discover their creativity and even observe a little bit of handwriting.
Let’s get began on the way to make this cute heart-shaped caterpillar!
Provides wanted to make cute Coronary heart Caterpillars along with your Toddler
- Coloured building paper (completely different shades of crimson and pink)
- Or precut hearts in the identical colours
- Scissors
- Glue sticks
- Markers or crayons
- Googly eyes (non-obligatory however enjoyable!)
- Full measurement piece of paper or cardstock (for mounting the caterpillar)
(NOTE from RedTedArt: I created a helpful printable in black and white or a wide range of colours so that you can print out, must you discover it helpful! In fact slicing your individual shapes is sensible too.. simply work with what you will have. This printable is FREE to Pink Ted Artwork Readers – merely add HappyFeet at take a look at to get the 100% Low cost!).
Tips on how to make your Valentine’s caterpillars with preschoolers:
1 – Put together the hearts. You could possibly discover precut circles. In any other case you’ll want to chop out a bunch. You’ll find coronary heart templates on-line for those who don’t have one thing to make use of as a sample. (I’ve one linked in my unique submit)
(NOTE: or make use of the FREE Coronary heart Caterpillar Printables – be sure you seize the low cost code within the provides part).
2 – Glue one coronary heart in direction of the left facet of the paper. It will develop into the top of your caterpillar.
3 – Transfer down your web page a bit after which glue hearts in a line, barely overlapping. You need them hooked up to the top however barely decrease.
We used 5 for the physique. Should you plan so as to add names (extra on that later), then some youngsters may have longer our bodies.
4 – Use a marker to attract legs, they’ll have a variety of legs or just some.
5 – Add a face. You possibly can simply use a marker or embellish your caterpillar however utilizing gems for the tops of the antennae and googly eyes on the face.
Making Coronary heart Caterpillars with a category:
Wish to use this mission to assist youngsters work on writing and spelling their names?
Have them add every letter of their identify to at least one coronary heart on the physique. Longer names may have longer our bodies, shorter names could have some clean hearts.
You possibly can even use these to create a cute caterpillar bulletin board. Mix everybody’s caterpillars into a large Valentine’s Day mural with grass, flowers, and hearts.
Extra methods to study:
Counting
Incorporate math into this exercise by having the youngsters rely what number of hearts they used.
Measuring
Measure the size of their caterpillar with a ruler. Should you’re doing it with a category they’ll measure their very own, then get in teams and see how lengthy all of them are when hooked up finish to finish. Whose is the longest? Whose is the shortest?
Sequencing
You possibly can observe sequencing the colours your use – alternating colours or utilizing colours in each three.
Discussing Colours
You may as well have enjoyable with discussing colours – what are pimary and secondary colours. How will we make “pink”?
Have an exquisite Valentine’s Day. Go to my web site for tons of free printable Valentines and craft and exercise concepts for all yr lengthy.
We’ve got extra fantastic Coronary heart Animal Crafts on Pink Ted Artwork right here, with a Coronary heart Lion Craft and Coronary heart Pig Craft:
Extra fantastic Valentine’s Crafts for Preschoolers right here:
