Hungry Caterpillar Tot Bag

This is another one of our favorite books around here. Although we don't have the board book version of this classic, I definitely want to share this with my toddler. I am preparing for the new school year, and I am working on activity bags for him. My first tot bag was Brown Bear, Brown Bear. These bags will hopefully help to keep him happily occupied while I work with J. Here is my Hungry Caterpillar Tot bag.

My goal with these tot bags is to use materials on hand to create them. This makes it easily accessible for other to recreate them as well. These are the activities I planned for the book.

I have caterpillar lacing. The caterpillar is two green pipe cleaners wrapped around each other. I cut out some fun foam fruit and punched a hole inside it. The caterpillar with eat "through" the fruit. We can use this to pattern the fruits eaten by the caterpillar and this is also a fine motor activity. I made fruit bean bags for some bean bag fun - gross motor activities. We will use these to play all sorts of games.

I have a butterfly magnetic activity. Kaleb will match the butterfly with the magnetic pom poms that I made. I also printed out a sizing activity - put the caterpillars in order from smallest to largest (or vice versa).

This is probably my favorite activity that I made. It is a hungry caterpillar clank can that I made from a large Ranch dressing bottle. I covered the bottle with green paper and created the face. I printed the foods the caterpillar ate and glued them to milk caps. Kaleb is going to love this, he just loves putting things inside things. (The antennas are probably not going to make it after the first play but he will still be cute.) The only thing I didn't make in the kit is the butterfly finger puppet that I bought at IKEA awhile ago. Everything else in the tot bag is made or printed. I am looking forward to sharing this great story with my son. Now, all of my activities fit into a ziplock bag and are awaiting for the day I pull them out.

Hungry Caterpillar links

The Great Green Room this is where I found the idea for caterpillar lacing.

Making Learning Fun the idea for the clank can came from here, this site also has tons of Hungry Caterpillar printables.

Enchanted School House the bean bags idea came from here, she has a great hungry caterpillar bean bag game, it was too big to fit into my tot bag but I may still create this.

1plus1plus1equals1 Hungry Caterpillar Tot book, free printable, her stuff is great and she always shares, this is where I found the caterpillar sizing activity.

All Join In another clank can idea using a pringles container, this is where I found the link for the food printable I glued to the milk caps.

Childcare Land there is an extreme amount of free stuff here, just keep scrolling, I found the butterfly magnet pages here. She has other versions of these as well as everything else you can think of.

Yellow Mums I truly wanted to make this but I have some other tot bag ideas that I wanted to get to before the summer starts, so it will have to wait. I love the idea of have a puppet or large caterpillar to act out the story.