Hungry Caterpillar

This evening we did a play dough acting-out of Eric Carle's The Hungry Caterpillar. Katie made a play dough caterpillar, and then she made a bunch of food for it - I helped with ideas for food while washing the dishes. And then we told the story, with the caterpillar "eating" the food. By the time he had eaten all the food Katie had made for him, he was, indeed, a "big, fat caterpillar" ready to make a cocoon. Then it nibbled a hole in the cocoon, and... out popped a beautiful butterfly!