Eric carle handprint art

Great ideas for Very Hungry Caterpillar activities for kindergarten and early elementary school aged children. Books, activities, and craft ideas!

We've had so much fun this week creating crafts to go along with our favorite Eric Carle book The Very Lonely Firefly. Another one that we crafted up was this easy Glow In The Dark

Handprint and footprint crafts are SO adorable! I think that we can all agree that anything our children make with their sweet little hands and feet qualifies as cute. Am I right? I have run

Here's a super cute little craft to go with Eric Carle's book, A House for Hermit Crab. I'm a huge fan of doing book-themed activities and crafts, especially if they are based on an Eric Carle book (I posted a themed activity post for Eric Carle's book the Very Busy Spider last week)! This is such an easy, adorable craft to do after reading the book. Get out some paper (these kids used brown like the sand, but you could use whatever you have), some red paint, a handful of sand, googly eyes…

This handprint hermit crab craft is a great extension of the Eric Carle book, A House for Hermit Crab and makes a great classroom display!

These FREE Printables and Unit Studies for Eric Carle's Books will help you expand on what your kids are learning through these beloved books.

Super cute footprint craft inspired by the children's classic, The very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. This craft is great for babies and toddlers.

I did this project with a group of Kindergartners in our co-op as a part of an Eric Carle author study. We spent some time looking through his books, talking about his collage technique using painted sheets of tissue paper, and seeing how he does it in his studio (in The Art of Eric Carle - great book from our library). Then we tried our own version of the flower that grew from The Tiny Seed. First, we needed to paint several sheets of paper. I used acrylic paint on copy paper to have a…