Our fuzzy pom pom caterpillar craft is easy to make and kids love ’em! This caterpillar craft is perfect for kids of all ages and doubles as a fine motor skill, and a great craft to teach life skills!

How to Make Pom Pom Caterpillars- Kids Activities Blog- pom pom caterpillars that are purple, green, yellow, orange, and pink with red antenna and googly eyes on a white back drop with green paper leaves. — How cute and colorful is this caterpillar craft?

How to This Make Pom Pom Caterpillar Craft

Perfect for imaginary and sensory play, these soft, bright caterpillars will delight children of all ages!

Love the Very Hungry Caterpillar? This caterpillar craft would be a perfect craft to do with it. It would also work great as a sensory craft, bug science craft, or even a spring craft. But it also doubles as fine motor skill practice and teaches an important life skill, sewing!

The best part is, this pom pom caterpillar craft is budget-friendly. However, due to the needle, there either needs to be an adult helping or an adult heavily supervising.

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Supplies Needed To Make This Colorful Pom Pom Caterpillar Craft

How To Make This Cute and Fuzzy Pom Pom Caterpillar Craft

Step 1

Begin by threading your needle.

Tip: It sometimes help if you wet the tip of the thread before trying to thread it.

Step 2

Pull the thread directly through the middle of the pom poms. Be sure to tie the end off!

Step 3

Repeat until all of the pom poms are strung. Tie off the string and trim the excess.

Step 4

Decide which end of the caterpillar is the head, then rethread your needle. Starting at the bottom of the pom pom, pull the thread up through the middle and out towards either the right or left.

Step 5

Repeat, pulling the thread towards the opposite side. Now the caterpillar has antennae!

Step 6

Secure the wiggly eyes to the pom pom with hot glue. If desired, stitch a small smile onto the face of the caterpillar.

Pom Pom Caterpillars

This caterpillar craft is sure to please kids of all ages. Make a colorful and fuzzy pom pom caterpillar using budget-friendly crafting supplies.

Materials

pom poms
wiggly eyes
embroidery floss
sewing needle
hot glue
scissors

Instructions

Thread your needle with the embroidery floss! You can use any color thread you want.
Stick each pom pom through the middle and pull the thread through. Do this to all your pom poms.
Do this until you have your caterpillar the desired length and tie off the string at the end. Trim off the excess string.
Rethread your needle.
Decide which end you want the head of the caterpillar and the stick the needle through the top from left to right or right to left, it doesn't matter.
Once you have the desired length trim off the string to make antennas for your caterpillar.
Take your hot glue gun and stick the wiggly eyes on your pom pom caterpillar.

Notes

Younger kids and kids not familiar with sewing will need heavy adult supervision and/or adult help to do this craft.

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How did your colorful pom pom caterpillar craft turn out? Comment below, we’d love to hear from you!