| Materials:
- One Pipe cleaner (Chenille Stem)
- Ultra fine black marker
- Two 7mm googly eyes
- Tacky glue or Elmer's glue
- Egg Carton - the cardboard type - Not
the Styrofoam type
- Acrylic paint or Washable kids paint*
- Paint brush
- Optional: Q-tips and/or five 1/2"
pompoms
*Acrylic paint will give you a more complete
coverage with one coat but washable kids paint
will also work fine and will clean up easier.
1) Cut a strip of 6 cups from the egg carton
being sure to keep them attached in a straight
line as pictured. This is a grownups job.
2)Turn the cups upside-down and paint the
side which was originally the outside of the egg
carton. Have fun with the paint and
experiment with different colors and designs.
If you wish to have polka dots on your
caterpillar, dip the tip of a Q-tip in paint
then dot the caterpillar with it. Re-load your
Q-tip with paint after every two or three dots.
Let the paint dry completely.
3) Decide which end you would like to be the
head of your caterpillar and poke two holes
close together in the top of that section.
Use a pen or whatever you have handy to make the
holes.
4) Cut a 5" piece of pipe cleaner and place
the rest of the pipe cleaner aside for another
project.
5) From the underside of your caterpillar
head, poke one end of the pipe cleaner into one
of the holes you made and poke the other end of
the pipe cleaner into the second hole. On
the right side of the head, pull the two ends so
they are approximately even. Curl the two
ends of the pipe cleaner as desired.
6)
Glue the two eyes onto the front of the
caterpillar. It is easiest to apply the
glue directly to the caterpillar and then stick
the eyes into the dots of glue. 7) Using the
marker, draw a mouth on your caterpillar and he
is complete. Optional: Glue one pompom
on top of each of the egg carton cups.
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