Sunday, February 2, 2014

Valentine's Day Craft for the Younguns Continued

Heart Caterpillar
Another fun Valentine's Day craft you can make with kids, (or by yourself) is a heart caterpillar.  So easy to make and very cute, you'll love it!
Materials:
Two sheets of different colored paper, (I used red and pink keeping in theme with Valentine's Day)
A sheet of regular white paper, preferably card stock so the Elmer's glue doesn't misshape it too much.
Elmer's glue
Googly eyes
A thin sharpie
Let's get down to business:
1.  Cut a rectangle from your piece of white paper, this will be where the caterpillar will rest, so if you want a larger creature, leave more room.
2. fold the two colored pieces of paper you have selected.
3. Draw half heart along the folded edge of your papers, (thus creating hearts when you cut them out), decide what color you want the head of your caterpillar to be, and when you draw the mark for the head, make it significantly bigger than the body. For the caterpillar I made, you will draw two hearts for the body and a larger heart on one sheet of colored paper, then on the other, draw three hearts for the body, and two very tiny ones that you will use for the antennas.
4. Cut out the half hearts, giving you eight hearts of multiple sizes.
5. Glue the largest heart, (the head), at an angle on your rectangular white piece of paper.
6. Alternate colors for your caterpillar's body, and for the first segment, overlap the point of the large heart.
7. With a different color heart, continue to over lap the hearts just a little until you are out of body parts.
8. Glue the tiny hearts above the head, over both curves of the heart.
9. Wait until the Elmer's glue dries completely before moving on!  Glue the googly eyes onto the head of the caterpillar, don't be afraid to use different sizes, I did and I think it makes the caterpillar look even cuter!
10. Now draw the lines from the head to the tiny hearts above the caterpillar, forming the antenna. Also draw a mouth on your caterpillar, and legs too!
Now you have a cute, creative creature for your friend or family, this is a great craft for kids, I'm sure they will love them! If any of my directions are unclear, just refer to the picture and I'm sure all will be clear!
Go be crafty!



No comments:

Post a Comment