The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities and Lesson Plans

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Who doesn’t love The Very Hungry Caterpillar? I loved it as a child, and now 30+ years later love reading it with my own children (it has become a favorite of both of them)! There are so many ways to incorporate this wonderful story into your classroom. Here are a few of my favorites!

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Teaching Plan from Scholastic

Includes introduction strategies, basic concepts (counting, days of the week, back and front), ways to discuss change, and a post-reading activity making caterpillars and butterflies.

Another Lesson Plan from Scholastic

Through art, math, and dramatic-play activities, children will engage in activities that extend Eric Carle‘s story The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Huge Assortment of Lesson Plans and Activities from TeachingHeart.net

Lesson ideas, printables, bulletin boards, and much more for your literature unit!

Official Eric Carle Website

Ideas from actual teachers for using the Very Hungry Caterpillar in the classroom.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Ideas for using the Very Hungry Caterpillar to teach healthy eating.

A Set of Math Bag Activities for Elementary Classrooms

Language Arts Lesson – Sequencing The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Goal: To introduce the concept of sequence or story order

Objectives: by the end of the lesson:

• students will be able to sequence any set of events in the correct order
• students will be able to use the concept of ordinal numbers to help organize story events
• students will be learn the meaning of new vocabulary words
• students will listen for a purpose
• students will use a graphic organizer to arrange story events
• students will summarize story events

The Very Hungry Kindergartner

Children will write a book entitled “The Very Hungry Kindergartener” after reading and discussing the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Reinforces writing, phonetics, and counting.

WebQuest – Metamorphosis of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”

The web quest will be completed on The Very Hungry Caterpillar; the target audience is for students grades 3-5.  The web quest will be a cross curricular lesson that will incorporate national standards of reading comprehension, Science, Art, Health/Nutrition, English language, Technology and Mathematics.

EDITED 6/27/11 to add this amazing collection of Hungry Caterpillar activities from NurtureStore including the one seen in the photo – seriously, how cute is that?!

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