If you take your kids to Easter egg hunts, you are bound to have lots of plastic eggs at home. We have fun plastic Easter egg craft ideas including Easter egg bunting, Easter egg flower bouquets, and an Easter egg coloring matching game. These are just a few projects. Be sure to click on the search bar above for ‘plastic egg crafts’ and you will find lots more. This Easter we are showing you how to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar out of plastic eggs.
Gather your plastic Easter eggs and make our Very Hungry Caterpillar craft. This craft uses fine motor skills, patterning, color, and math skills making it perfect for preschool and kindergarten aged kids.
Parents, if you have leftover plastic eggs, donate them to your local elementary school, early learning center, or library and suggest our craft projects for kids.
Plastic Easter egg caterpillar craft
Supplies
- Plastic Easter eggs – green and red (we used various shades of green, you could add teal and aqua too)
- 2 purple pipe cleaners
- Green and yellow construction paper
- School glue
- Scissors
- Pencil (optional) – if you want to draw the eyes before cutting them out.
Instructions
Put two purple pipe cleaners through the holes of the end of a red plastic egg.
Thread the green plastic eggs onto the two pipe cleaners in the same way. This is where you can introduce patterning, counting, and different shades of colors to younger children. We used three shades of green plastic eggs for our caterpillar and used the bottom of each color first, then the top of each after that. We repeated that pattern until we had about an inch of pipe cleaners left.
The last egg will be the whole plastic egg (top and bottom pieces together). Once the pipe cleaner is threaded through, fold the pipe cleaner over and put it down inside the opposite hole. Repeat with the other side.
Cut out eyes and a mouth for your Very Hungry Caterpillar using the green and yellow construction paper, and glue them onto the red plastic egg.
You could also use shades of aqua and teal if you happen to have those colors too.
Kids are going to love making our Very Hungry Caterpillar craft, it’s educational, and finds another use for plastic Easter eggs too.
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