C is for caterpillar! Help your toddler learn about the letter C by making a fun caterpillar handprint craft.
Materials
- Green, blue, red, and brown nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paper plate or scrap cardboard
- Cotton ball
- Cotton swab or paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some green paint and some blue paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of green paint on your child’s palm and a second cotton ball to spread a thin layer of blue paint on your child’s fingers excluding the thumb.
- Press the handprint with the fingers open and down onto the paper. Repeat for a total of three handprints side by side. Reapply the paint as needed.
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Pour some red paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of red paint on your child’s palm.
- Press the red palm print above one of the end green and blue handprints.
- Wash the paint off your child’s palm.
- Pour some brown paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of brown paint on your child’s fingertip.
- Press two brown fingertip prints into the center of the red palm print and two brown fingertip prints on top of the red palm print.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Use a paintbrush to paint “C is for caterpillar” in red on the paper.
For more fun insect crafts, try my A Is for Ant Paper Plate Craft, B Is for Bumblebee Paper Plate Craft, B Is for Bumblebee Footprint Craft, and L Is for Ladybug Footprint Craft.
Image Credits
C Is for Caterpillar Handprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Green, Blue, Red and Brown Acrylic Paint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Three Handprints with Green Palms and Blue Fingers © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding One Red Palm Print to the Green and Blue Handprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding Four Brown Fingertip Prints to the Red Palm Print © 2014 Heather Johnson
Finished C Is for Caterpillar Handprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Completed C Is for Caterpillar Handprint Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
