Cardboard Caterpillar
September 28, 2009 by The Green Beagle
Filed under Activities
Keep you and your family busy with fun crafts using things that are lying around the house. This is a fun and simple activity using things you might normally throw out.
Supplies:
- Paper towel roll or toilet paper roll
- Carolina Pad Construction Paper, 9 x 12-Inches, Assorted Colors, 96 sheets or left over wrapping paper
- Cotton balls or pom-pom balls
- Embellishments or decorations from around the house
- Pipe cleaners
- Glue or Hot Glue Gun
- Fiskars Kids 5-Inch Softgrip Scissors
Instructions:
- Cut a strip of paper about 1″ wide
- Wrap it around the cardboard roll and glue in place
- Repeat #1 & #2 with different colors of construction paper
- Punch a hole close to one end of the cardboard roll
- Bend the pipe cleaner in half and place in hole with ends protruding out
- Shape the ends to look like antennas
- Glue a cotton ball or pom-pom ball to the end
- Glue eyes on the ball to make the face


