Fun and Easy Moving Caterpillar Craft for Kids
Kids are going to love making this simple and easy moving caterpillar craft! Not only is it fun to make, it’s also going to be great to play with!
Many of the crafts we feature on this blog are static, which means you make them and well, they’re done! However, some of the crafts are dynamic, and we admit there’s a special joy in making these!
We know that kids will also love making something that they can play with later, which is why we’ve brought you one such craft today – a cute little moving caterpillar craft!
Fun and Easy Moving Caterpillar Craft for Kids
Supplies required:
- Colored craft papers
- Colored cardstock paper
- Pencil
- Craft glue
- A pair of scissors
- Sharpies
How to make the Moving Caterpillar Craft:
1. Download and print the moving caterpillar craft template. The template contains parts of the caterpillar and the leaf. The little rectangles are what will eventually form the caterpillar.
2. Trace the parts of the template on craft paper of the appropriate colors and cut them out. The leaf and the long strip should be in green, while the antennae can be black or dark brown. As for the rectangles, you can choose red, orange or pink – or a combination of all three!
3. Let’s start assembling the moving caterpillar craft by putting together the parts of the caterpillar. Take one of the small rectangles and apply glue along one of the short sides.
4. Roll the rectangle so that the unglued side meets the glued side and you end up with a little cylinder.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with the remaining rectangles so you get 6 paper cylinder shapes.
6. Pick one of the cylinder shapes to be the head of the moving caterpillar craft. Stick the two antennae on this cylinder shape as shown below.
7. Wait, the head is not done yet! Take a black Sharpie and draw eyes and a smile on the caterpillar’s head.
8. Time to assemble the body of our moving caterpillar craft! Attach a paper cylinder to the back of the caterpillar’s head with glue.
9. Continue sticking the remaining paper cylinders with glue, so that you get a complete caterpillar as shown below. Looking cute!
10. Put aside the caterpillar for now and take out the leaf shape. Fold it in half vertically, along the ‘spine’ of the leaf.
11. On this half-leaf pattern, make thin accordion folds as shown in the image below.
12. Open the fold made in step 10 and straighten out all the remaining folds. Now you have a leaf with ‘veins’ running across it.
13. Time to bring back the caterpillar and the long green strip! Turn the caterpillar over so that the bottom is facing up. Apply a drop of glue on the bottom of the head.
14. Attach the strip to the head, so the top end of the strip is on the dab of glue. Now apply 2 drops of glue on the last cylinder of the caterpillar on either side of the long strip, as shown below.
15. Carefully place the leaf on top, so that the pointy end of the leaf faces the direction of the caterpillar’s head and the step faces towards the strip. Make sure that the strip is completely free from glue and the leaf is attached only to the caterpillar’s body. Turn over the entire moving caterpillar craft.
16. To make the caterpillar move, pull out and then push in the open end of the strip. You can see the caterpillar surging forward in little bursts!
Now you know why little kids are going to love this moving caterpillar craft! They’ll be delighted to see how something they created move, that too without needing batteries!
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