The Very Hungry Caterpillar Snack Ideas

Snacks! Children LOVE snacks, right?

What about snacks that are connected to a cool and amazing children’s book?

Yes! Here is a snack that children can play with and eat and enjoy.

This snack is one that your kids can put together on their own.

It is based on the wonderful children’s picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

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Hungry Caterpillar Food Craft

Even though the book can be used to learn the days of the week, colors and food, in this post, we will focus on a fun snack.

We need:

• a plate (it can be a green paper cut in the shape of a leaf, a plate or a paper plate)
• one cherry tomato for each caterpillar (they will be the head)
• green grapes (about 4 or 5 for each caterpillar)
• extra cherry tomatoes and green grapes to eat as a snack
• Optional: The Very Hungry Caterpillar story book

Brother and Sister both worked on this after we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Each of them made their own caterpillars out of two simple fruits.

You can have them make it on a paper leaf, a real green leaf or a plate.

You can chat together and retell the story about how this caterpillar became a beautiful butterfly.

Talk about the food from the very hungry caterpillar and what the caterpillar eats as they make their snack!

It was great for coordination, focus and slow, controlled movements to align the cherry tomato with the green grapes.

They would giggle every time a grape would roll off the line.

It was fun when they wanted the caterpillars to get longer and longer by using more green grapes.

At the end of our snack playtime, we enjoyed the cherry tomatoes and the green grapes.

They were delicious.

Yes, it was ok to let the children play with their snack and yes, they even ate their cherry tomatoes.

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We hope that this post has inspired you to try this simple activity with your children.

They will love it!

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