Use leftover yarn and make some adorable yarn art with your kids. This easy yarn caterpillar craft is a perfect project to celebrate spring and bugs! With its focus on fine motor skills, it’s a great craft to do with younger kids.
This bug craft is also great to include in your butterfly life cycle lessons as it’s a fun, hands-on activity to show one of the stages.
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Kids can use any color of yarn for this project really, with green being the most popular choice.
How to Make the Easy Yarn Caterpillar Craft
What you need:
- construction paper
- scissors
- glue
- yarn
- black marker
- googly eyes
Step by Step Tutorial
Get ready to create a cute yarn caterpillar with your child!
We’ll need a base. You will want a heavier paper – cardstock or even cardboard from cereal box (or just regular cardboard).
You can have the kids draw outlines with a pencil or just freestyle their caterpillar. Start by applying glue on the paper: make a circle of glue.
Take yarn and carefully start placing it on the glued area.
Roll it over the glue in a circular motion to create a thick spiral for the head.
Continue creating the circle by applying more glue if needed.
Watch the caterpillar’s head take shape!
When the caterpillar’s head is the desired size, have kids cut off the excess yarn. Gently press the yarn down for it to really stick to the paper.
Make the body in the same way (the circles can be the same size or a little bit smaller).
Use a black marker to draw the antennae.
Also draw of legs under each body segment.
Let’s give this critter some personality!
Glue the googly eyes onto the caterpillar’s head.
Apply a small amount of glue and have your child create the caterpillar’s mouth using a tiny piece of orange yarn.
And there you have it – your adorable, easy yarn caterpillar craft is complete!
You can display it proudly and cherish the memories made while crafting this adorable spring project together!
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