When winter is coming to an end and the warmer spring comes slowly but safe, you often feel like handicrafts that are associated with spring. Because so we get in the right mood even more. In addition to handicrafts and various decorations at Easter, many different things can be made. Find a fun handicraft project that you can implement together with children, then we would like to offer you the caterpillar as an inspiration. You can handle a caterpillar with a wide variety of materials and some original ideas for copying below.
Colorful caterpillars tinker with children
From buttons and pipe cleaners
Pipe cleaners can prove to be very practical if they want to make caterpillars themselves. Use pipe cleaners for the sensors or use their help to design several legs. Feelers were also made from many buttons in this idea. TheCraft projectIt's great if you have a large collection of buttons and do not know what to do with you.
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If you want to make this caterpillar yourself, you don't have to get much. A wooden clothes peg and some bombs in any colors are sufficient. Glue the bums on the brackets and add the first with wobble. If you also attach a magnet on the bottom of the bracket, you can use the bracket to attach important notes on the fridge.
As an alternative to the bombs, you can also shape paper strips and then stick them onto the bracket. Cork can also be used for this purpose and painted in advance at will. For this example, instead of wobbly eyes, eyes were easily made of felt. The sensors can also consist of felt or paper.
With colorful pearls
Cryps of pearls are also very pretty and especially girls will enjoy tinkering with these colorful accessories. You can design them in different ways. On the one hand, you can thread the pearls on pipe cleaners. Then you can form one end of the pipe cleaner into a head. But thicker yarn or wire are also suitable.
Tinker out of plastic lids
A great idea that is suitable for recycling projects is also to use old lids if you want to make a caterpillar. The lids can be the color of the federation and either glued to a pad or are attached to each other with toothpicks, wire or cord. Simply try out different variants. If you want to make a tinker in particular, just use green and a red one for the head instead of colorful lids.
Sweet caterpillar made of ironing beads
If you have not yet tinkered with ironing beads, you should do it now at the latest and in this way make a caterpillar. These are very fun handicraft projects that are particularly fun for children and for whom there are also a wide variety of templates. Some greatTemplatesYou can also find with us. A template is less necessary for the caterpillar. It can also be made freehand.
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Or how about if you tinker with a caterpillar made of foam rubber? With this material it is easy to work and it is more durable than paper, for example. Cut stripes, the corners of which they then round off. Leave the elements larger towards the middle and then become smaller again. For the head you need a circle. At the top you will see Neversatt.
This is also an interesting variant with foam rubber. You need any number of circles that you punch so that pipe cleaners fits through the hole. Accordingly, you also need pipe cleaners, as well as pearls in the same color and a styrofoam ball. You can see how exactly the caterpillar should look like in the following picture:
Halve the ball, paint it in any color and put the pipe cleaner in after the color has dried. So that you can now make the caterpillar, change pearls and moss rubber trips. The pearls ensure that the circles have a distance from each other. Once you have reached the desired length, put the pipe cleaner into the other half of the styrofoam ball after you have painted it.
Paint caterpillar from toes orFingerprint
You can also make such a picture particularly easily and quickly. Use finger colors and put color on the toes of the foot. The large toe to form the head of the caterpillar can have a different color. The caterpillar can also be color -colored. Now press the toes on a sheet of paper or a canvas and let the color dry. After that, legs and face can be added. A great idea to design greeting cards!
Ideas for a paper caterpillar
Learning can be fun with the right technology. Teach your child, for example, by numbering the individual elements. This is wonderful as a colorful decoration in the children's room and will give the little great joy. Simply make the caterpillar from colorful wastebears and some legs.
If the dad would like to help the child tinkering with Mother's Day, this happy caterpillar is a great idea. It can be used to design a card. But the idea is also very suitable for a relative's birthday. Simply ferred a heart template and then use it to cut out paper hearts.
You can also design greeting cards with such a caterpillar. Maybe you already have fromQuillingheard. Paper strips are simply used to design a wide variety of ornate pictures. The caterpillar is a very simple variant. Simple circular forms are required.
When it comes to tinkering with children, paper as a material is often the first choice. On the one hand because you usually already have it in the house and on the other hand, because it can simply be tinkered with it. How about if you tinker a sheet with a caterpillar? You can also punch the finished leaves here and there. This is what the sheet looks like as if the caterpillar had already snapped from it.
Simply glue paper rings together or tinker such a chain from the rings. They punch their heads and then tie the pipe cleaner as a sensor. You can also make a caterpillar out of toilet paper rollers. Simply cut rings out of the roll and glue them together like in the first variant or open them and stuck them together for the chain variant.
DIY idea with stones
If you are happy to tinker with natural materials, then get some about the same size stones and two branches. You can now paint the stones as desired and design with patterns. Then you can make the caterpillar out of it. The stones are glued together. The stone for the head should not only get a face in advance. Finally, stick two branches on the head for the sensors.
Crafting caterpillar with bums
Use colored bombs to make the caterpillar nimper. To do this, simply glue the bums together. As an alternative to bombs, it can also be worked wonderfully with felt balls. Just look at it, with which you can best work, what you have at hand or the easiest way to get. In principle, you can use almost all handicraft materials.
Crafts a caterpillar as a party decoration
A party or a children's birthday can have the topic of spring or caterpillar and then decorate it appropriately. Party lanterns like this are wonderful to design. Hang them close together on the ceiling and shape the first lantern with a face.
You can also use the caterpillar to hang the name of the birthday child on the wall. Simply label the individual elements with the respective letters and tie the plates together. The caterpillar made of paper plates is not just a great decoration for parties. Simply leave out the name and use it as a wall decoration.
The idea of balloons is also original and simple. This allows you not only to decorate the interior of the house, but also the garden during a party. Simply use any number of balloons in the desired colors. With paper you can design your eyes and an feeler. Tie balloons together and attach them to any point.
Upcycling from egg carton
We have already introduced some ideas for tinkering with egg carton. And now we will show you how to make a caterpillar made of egg carton. Use either a whole series of cups of the box and take individual cups and glue them together. It is best to get the look when you paint the egg carton and equip them with face and sensors.
You can also tinker with the children's egg carton caterpillar, because it is again a particularly simple project. Just help the little one when cutting out the cups, because the material is very thick and difficult to cut. In many cases it is easier to tear the egg box. In the end, don't forget the sensors!
If you tinker with egg carton, you can easily use the cup row and make a caterpillar so that the open side points upwards. In this way you can then use the cups wonderfully as small flower pots. Plant them with rapidly growing grass and the children can practice gardening by taking care of the grass, worrying and cutting it regularly.
Made of wool or fabric
If you want to make a caterpillar with wool, you are not only suitable for homemade bombs for this purpose. This crocheted caterpillar is a somewhat more complicated idea, which should not be a problem for crochet lovers. Simple balls are required, which are then sewn together. The sensors consist of pipe cleaners again, but can also be crocheted and then provided with wire in order to be able to stand upright.
It is easier again if you have a caterpillarHandicrafts from a sock. Old tights can also be used for this purpose. Stuff the sock with any filling material. Sewing the sock will certainly get beginners. Buttons are suitable as eyes that are known to be in various variants. Just try the idea!
Sweet caterpillar from old CDs
Old CDs can also be used to make an original caterpillar. Simply glue any number of CDs together and decorate the holes with moss rubber or felt. You can make your head out of cardboard or another material. If you make the caterpillar, you can also add legs. A simple craft idea that is made quickly!
Handicrafts with plasticine
The single -scenes elements can be made quickly from plasticine. Form several balls and a larger one for the head. Now you can arrange the balls to a base or connect them to toothpicks. The tinkering with plasticine is just as suitable to promote the fine motor skills of the children and their imagination.
If you want the caterpillar to last longer, you can also use craft tone instead of plasticine. There are variants that dry in the air, but those that are baked in the oven to get stuck. In this way you can make great figures where you can enjoy it for a long time. And even as a fan for jewelry, it can be used.
Tinker caterpillar with butterfly
You can also tinker butterflies and then combine them with caterpillars. You can see how you can design the two at the same time. From the caterpillar to the butterfly, they tinker with paper wings, the back of which are designed like leaves. A laundry peg serves as a base for the body made of bombs. Clamp the clip into the middle of the wings for a butterfly and fold the wings together to get a caterpillar on a leaf. Instructionshere.
