On my Facebook Page, I ask my readers to share their activities with us… Wendy made these FANTASTIC Grass Caterpillars with her Gardening Group (check out our smaller Grass Heads too). These make a perfect Garden Crafts for School or at home. She used the length of the leg of a pair of tights – each leg made three caterpillars… and:
“I mixed a handful of grass seed into the compost first and then stuffed it into the tights [Once stuffed, tie string for “segments”. Add some details like googly eyes and pipecleaners. Place outside and water]. The ones left inside sprouted almost over night the kids/adults were well impressed! I love the different textures of the grass delicate, then spiky and then long and shaggy. The kids loved giving them a hair cut and giving there caterpillars names. Have fun we did!”
We now have printable lesson plans for the grass heads! Check them out:
Decorate with googly eyes and pipecleaners
Thank you Wendy for sharing this AMAZING!!
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When and how do you take the caterpillars out of the tights……trying to figure out how they would stay together and grass would not pull out.
You leave it all in and the grass grows up through the tights!
Can’t wait to try these with preschoolers 🙂
This is such a sweet idea for kids to make. Can imagine a few little garden buddies with these and lots of inspiration for stories ! Thanks for sharing Wendy. Pinning onto our Kids Gardening board.
How absolutely amazing. A great idea and one I can’t wait to try out with my boys this Summer. Now where did I put my old tights….?
We made four from this amount.
Does it have to be tights? Can it be nylons? Or did you mean both , just called them tights?
Nylons, we call those tights in the UK!!
So cute! I’ve just got my first ever garden and I absolutely love these 🙂
Wonderful! Hope you get make some for your garden! So exciting to have somewhere to grow things!
what a fab idea, maybe need to try this one
Oh my gosh this is so stinking cute! I love these little guys!
Sheena
I love the grass caterpillars, they are so cute, I will look out for some grass seed next time I’m at the garden centre.
They are just a delight! Wonderful x
I made these with my first grade class last year but hardly any grass grew through the nylons. Does anyone have a suggestion as to why? Is there a special kind of grass seed that should be used? Thanks!
Did you add enough grass?
Or was the nylon too “close knit” so to speak? ie not really “porous enough”?