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Grass Caterpillars

February 21, 2021

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).

Spring Crafts - these grass head caterpillars are just SO MUCH FUN!!! The kids will love this gardening activity! #gardening #science #steam #gardeningforkids #kids #grassheads #planting
First shared in Feb 2014

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

caterpillar craft

Thank you Wendy for sharing this AMAZING!!

You can also check our grass heads and grass head video out!

Do check out more fabulous Garden Crafts for Kids and grown ups here:

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Filed Under: Gardening, Kids Craft, Spring 31 Comments

Comments

  1. Kelly says

    February 17, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      February 17, 2014 at 7:53 pm

      You leave it all in and the grass grows up through the tights!

      Reply
  2. joanne mccrudden says

    February 18, 2014 at 7:10 am

    Can’t wait to try these with preschoolers 🙂

    Reply
  3. Kim Vij @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    February 18, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    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.

    Reply
  4. Donna@MummyCentral says

    February 18, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    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….?

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      February 19, 2014 at 8:04 am

      We made four from this amount.

      Reply
      • TL says

        February 19, 2014 at 7:22 pm

        Does it have to be tights? Can it be nylons? Or did you mean both , just called them tights?

        Reply
        • Red Ted Art says

          February 19, 2014 at 7:24 pm

          Nylons, we call those tights in the UK!!

          Reply
  5. Rose says

    February 20, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    So cute! I’ve just got my first ever garden and I absolutely love these 🙂

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      February 20, 2014 at 5:43 pm

      Wonderful! Hope you get make some for your garden! So exciting to have somewhere to grow things!

      Reply
  6. Elaine Livingstone says

    February 28, 2014 at 8:07 am

    what a fab idea, maybe need to try this one

    Reply
  7. sheena @ http://thekeeperofcheerios.blogspot.com/ says

    March 7, 2014 at 6:34 pm

    Oh my gosh this is so stinking cute! I love these little guys!
    Sheena

    Reply
  8. Hellie's Corner says

    April 4, 2014 at 7:53 am

    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.

    Reply
  9. Honest Mum says

    April 1, 2016 at 7:11 am

    They are just a delight! Wonderful x

    Reply
  10. Christy says

    March 29, 2017 at 10:11 am

    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!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 29, 2017 at 3:20 pm

      Did you add enough grass?

      Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 29, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      Or was the nylon too “close knit” so to speak? ie not really “porous enough”?

      Reply

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