Table Time
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to promote color awareness and coloring skills.
Growing My Skills
Expand on those skills by identifying genders and identifying attributes!
Floortime Play
Activity: Hungry Caterpillar
Materials:
Small caterpillar stuffed animal or make one out of paper towel roll
Pretend food
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to just promote engagement with you as a play partner! Support your child with simple 1-step pretend play actions of the caterpillar eating the pretend food.
Growing My Skills
To expand on this skill, use the book and have the caterpillar follow along eating the pretend foods.
Relaxation Time
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child connect the theme(s) of the month, the book, and the craft together! While working on a healthy and relaxing sleep time routine.
Growing My Skills
Work on literacy skills during storytime!
Ask your child questions during the book, have them turn the pages, and see if they can make any connections from the day’s crafts/activities they worked on!
Creative Time
Activity: Make Brown Bear
Materials:
Glue
Scissors
Brown and black construction paper
Paper plates
Marker
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child follow directions and build their creativy and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
Cut out brown construction paper into squares or rectangles to glue onto the back of the paper plate
Make cut ears out of construction paper and glue onto paper plate
Draw a face onto a paper plate to create a bear – Toddler Approved Activities
Movement Time
Activity: The Very Busy Spider’s Web
Materials:
Tape
Yarn
Skill Check
The goal for this week is to climb through the very busy spider’s web without getting caught!
Growing My Skills
Use tape on the floor to create a “Spider Web” and have your child walk across without touching any of the tape
To make it even harder, you can use yarn to create a spider web in a doorway or along a hallway. Have your child try to climb through the web without touching the yarn!
Mealtime
Activity: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Materials:
Samples of or pictures of the following foods: apples, pears, strawberries, blueberries, oranges, muffins, ice cream, hot dog, pickle, pie, watermelon, lollipop
Take a bite of or view the same foods the hungry caterpillar consumed
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to identify the caterpillar that grew after having lots of different foods.
Growing My Skills
Wash hands and prepare foods with a story
Follow along with the story and identify the foods in pictures or on the table
Feel free to sample each food and watch how the caterpillar grows
TIP: Show your child a picture of them as a baby if available, show them how they started as a caterpillar too, they are growing every day
Language Time
Activity: Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle
Enjoy this classic book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, with your child and create your own caterpillar craft!
Materials:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Book or YouTube Video
Paper
Markers
Crayons
Scissors
Glue
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to work on your child’s expressive and receptive language skills! Use this time to work on following directions, identifying color and numbers, and describing pictures using different qualitative concepts.
Expanding Skills
Work on following directions by telling your child which colors/items to use to draw/color a caterpillar (use the book for visual support too if needed!)
Work on expressive language skills by describing all the different foods the caterpillar sees and eats
Work on following directions by “feeding” your caterpillar the different foods you create based on the book
