Thursday, March 29, 2012

Hungry caterpillar paper chains!!

Paper chains are a basic easy activity, that I find don't usually have a use in the art room, until now! I was inspired to do this by a pin on pinterest that I took and made my own. I had the students paint like Eric Carle first on a 9x 12 sheet of green construction paper. The following class I past back the papers and as I did I chopped them up into strips using the part cutter. I had the students fold and glue their strips into a chain, as well as a single red strip for the head. I also past out yellow ovals for the eyes. Finally, we took a pipecleaner and twisted it around to make the antennas! The students loved this and the library looks fabulous with these hanging from the ceiling!!!!

4 comments:

  1. Super cute Rachel!!! Love the idea.

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  2. I did Chinese dragons like these a while ago which I'll be posting soon, but I love the caterpillar idea!!

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  3. Ha! These are adorable! This is my favourite book from childhood. This looks like such a fun and whimsical project- can't wait to try it! Thank you for sharing.

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  4. These are adorable! I am going to try these when I teach my nutition unit. Thanks for sharing!
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