Our theme for the next few weeks revolves around caterpillars and butterflies, and I try to incorporate art and crafts in as much as I can in the afternoons. We made the cutest little caterpillar the other day, and it was so simple. Too simple honestly, to make a blog post about it, but I wanted to share because it is so simple, if that makes sense. Plus, Wyatt absolutely loved it!
Last week we made a rainbow out of Fruit Loops cereal and I had a bunch that we had on the table that didn’t get used. We couldn’t eat them and I didn’t want to waste them so I bagged them up for future crafting days. Well, yesterday was rainy and dreary, the perfect day to make a cheery little craft. I pulled the Fruit Loops out and we got to crafting!
All you need to make these are pipe cleaners, Fruit Loops (or any cereal that is similar), glue, and scissors. That’s it! I cut the pipe cleaners in half, and then folded over one end to make the head. Then I gave it to Wyatt to string the cereal on. When he got to the end, I folded over the other end, cut little pipe cleaners for legs and antenna, folded them into V shapes, and voila, we were done! It was that simple. But the beauty of this whole project was that Wyatt wanted to keep making them. He must have spent an hour making them, adding Fruit Loops, taking them off, adding new ones. And it was was such good occupational therapy for him too, with the fine motor skills involved and it forced him to use both of his hands together.
So while these are not correct in any way shape or form, they are cute and cheery, simple to make, and my kiddo loved making them! A win all the way around in my book!
And we now have an army of colorful caterpillars!
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So cute! 🙂
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Thanks! They made me smile. 🙂
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This is such a cute idea! Passing it on!
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Thanks! They are so cheery to me!
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How adorable! Pipe cleaners are the best…and so are Fruit Loops. LOL
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I never let Wyatt have sugar cereal pre-pandemic…. he is very much enjoying the change. Lol.
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I don’t have these in my house right now, but I should. lol.
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Fruit loops or pipe cleaners? Lol. Wyatt is loving that I am letting him have Fruit Loops now. Lol.
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Either at the moment but I meant pipe cleaners — I don’t know why I didn’t clarify.
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I was just razzing you. 🙂
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Oh!! Ha! I’m too ditzy to “get it” these days. 😂😂
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How fun are those!! So colorful & just make you smile:)
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Aw thank you!! They made me smile too!
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Awww..very cute.
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Thanks!
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Love how you’re growing catapillars. That would be so cool to do here but I worry about the dang cats that had recently killed one of my plants by constantly chewing and biting it to the point where I had tried to trim it down but they kept messing with it and eventually even pulled the last of it out of the dirt.
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Oh my gosh my cats are killers!!! I have to close the bedroom off to keep them out or they try to attack. We had a single mouse last week that somehow got in and my cats were on that thing in moments and trapped it under the cabinet. They alerted us to its presence very quickly so we were able to get on it!
Cats are such cute little menaces. Lol.
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😂
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