The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Bundles
Less planning, more learning! Save time preparing super fun ESL lessons with The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
♦ Hours of fun, dynamic activities that you can use NOT ONLY with the Very Hungry Caterpillar story, but also in any lessons on food, the butterfly lifecycle or days of the week.
♦ Flexible materials and activities for 6-10 lessons.
♦ Perfect for mixed age groups or to use across a range of levels.
♦ Pick and choose the activities you want. All the activities are great value at around €1 - €2, with bigger and bigger discounts the more you buy.
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Flashcards and game cards
Perfect for a whole host of whole class, small group and pair practice of your target language.
♦ Help your young learners learn food, days, lifecycle and story language from the Hungry Caterpillar story in a fun, dynamic way.
♦ Try out the included game ideas for interactive practice and easy learning.
♦ A choice of three card types provide plenty of learning opportunities so your esl kids never get bored.
♦ Perfect for helping you plan engaging and effective lessons so you have structure to your Hungry Caterpillar story lessons.
♦ Kids LOVE puzzling out the order of the story with these attractive card sets.
♦ Includes black and white versions so they can create their own copies too!
♦ Increase engagement and language practice by using them in small group card games. See the included activity suggestions!
Interactive storytelling and retelling
While you can incorporate retelling with any of the resources on this page, these resources are more specifically designed for retelling and manipulating the story.
Your ESL young learners will acquire more language from the story with multiple retellings. The resources below are super helpful for allowing you to do this in dynamic and fun ways. Empower your young learners to tell the story for themselves (or even add their own unique twist on it!)
♦ A dynamic and engaging craft to practise story language and use in story retelling.
♦ Includes blank butterfly templates – design your own patterns!
♦ Includes useful activity suggestions to give you plenty of ideas for how to use them in engaging practice activities.
♦ Easy to cater to different abilities and skills focus by choosing from an amazing 9 different templates.
♦ Ideal for practising sequencing skills and at the same time consolidating language from the song/story.
♦ A fun and interactive way to incorporate story retelling, and bring English outside the classroom.
♦ Includes super useful activity procedures and learning objectives to make planning easy.
- ‘Click to play’ so that they can read before they listen to check, or listen and follow along.
- So easy to bring English outside the classroom. Share with parents and they can listen at home.
- Adapted into present tense and simplifies noun phrases. Easy for ESL kids to acquire useful language.
- Hosted on Boomlearning – It’s easy to create a free account. You have the option to send fast links or assign the activity so you get immediate feedback on individual progress.
♦ Includes 22 cards organised into 3 sets: fruit + days of week; Saturday food items; key story events
♦ Listen then choose from a choice of 4 images.
♦ Works on ANY digital device.
♦ Use for independent practise or in the classroom.
Try the Playable Preview to get a better idea of how it works.
♦ Helps you tell the story in an alternative way. Use as well as or instead of the book to incorporate multiple retellings without your kids ever getting bored.
♦ Great for big groups or online. Everyone can see. No peering or jostling to see the pages!
♦ Print in small cards and use in sequencing and story retelling.
♦ Play vocabulary games with the key language in the engaging images.
Worksheets with a twist
Printables that are perfect for introducing and practising key food, colours, numbers and useful story phrases. Follow the activity suggestions for dynamic ways to work on receptive and productive skills. Not just boring worksheets!
♦ No stress craft fun that beats a worksheet any day!
♦ Easy to differentiate for higher and lower levels.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning AND give you ideas for incorporating story retelling.
♦ Easy to differentiate for different levels and ages.
♦ Choose colour, black and white or a mix of both!
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning AND give you ideas for incorporating story retelling.
♦ Choose a longer or shorter caterpillar to vary the difficulty easily.
♦ Easily incorporate literacy skills with the read, colour and find options.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning.
♦ Choose from 4 different sheets to easily differentiate according to ability, age group, and vocabulary focus.
♦ Work on sequencing with the food sheets.
♦ Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning AND give you ideas for incorporating story retelling.
♦ Use independently or alongside The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
♦ Easy to differentiate for different levels. Choose tracing words or full stage sentences.
♦ Perfect for turning into mobiles and making an attractive class display.
♦ Useful activity suggestions make lesson planning easy, and give you lots of ideas for language practice.
Games to make and play
All of these can be made to play before your class, but they are also fantastic for integrating even more language practice because the kids can make their own copies. Super useful for bringing English outside the classroom – your young learners will be so excited to play these at home with their families.
♦ A super interactive way to practise food vocabulary AND useful language from the story.
♦ Give your young learners even more English speaking practice with the create your own game versions. They’ll play at home with their families too!
♦ Choose from 5 variations to easily differentiate for different levels – includes literacy practice option too!
♦ Useful activity suggestions make lesson planning easy, and give you lots of ideas for different ways to play.
♦ A super interactive way to practise food vocabulary AND useful language from the story.
♦ Includes 3 game types: picture boards, drag and drop to text boards and colouring boards to use with your favourite paint software.
♦ Easy to differentiate for level. Choose ‘only fruit and vegetable’ boards OR ‘all story food’ boards.
♦ Useful activity suggestions make lesson planning easy, and give you lots of ideas for different ways to play.
- 3 different mats to focus on different vocabulary: fruit only, all food vocabulary, story event images.
- Includes fun game ideas to help your ESL kids learn the vocabulary and phrases in a fun interactive way.
- Encourages independence by facilitating pair and group work. Everyone can particpate easily.
You’ll also get the below bonus PowerPoint games in the Hungry Caterpillar Activities Bundle:
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Not sure how many resources you need?
Of course it depends on your particular context, but I’d like to give you an idea of how I’ve used them across multiple levels, lessons and age groups. Below are a couple of sample 6 lesson maps with the resources.
Note: Another important point worth mentioning is that I also use some of these resources independently rather than alongside the story.
3 to 5 years (also suitable for older children new to English)
Lesson 1: Colouring sheets; Flashcards and game cards; Storytelling with book or PowerPoint story
Lesson 2: Folding find and stick craft; Flashcards and game cards; Storytelling with book or PowerPoint story
Lesson 3: “Do you like..? Find and tick craft; Digital simplified story; Flashcards and game cards
Lesson 4: Sequencing cards (games); Mini-book; Storytelling
Lesson 5: Food vocabulary PowerPoint games; Board games (Digital or print); Storytelling
Lesson 6: Finger puppets (pre-cut holes) or Butterfly lifecycle craft; Drama roleplay
6 to 9 years (also suitable for younger children with 2+ years of English)
Lesson 1: Colour by number sheets; Flashcards and game cards; Storytelling with book or PowerPoint story
Lesson 2: “Do you like..?” Find and Stick craft; Splat Mats; Storytelling with book or PowerPoint story
Lesson 3: Sequencing cards (games or make and play); Mini-books; Digital Simplified story
Lesson 4: Food vocabulary PowerPoint games; Board games (Digital or print); Storytelling
Lesson 5: Finger puppets or Butterfly lifecycle craft; Drama roleplay
Lesson 6: Listen and Choose Digital cards; Learning stations with game cards, sequencing cards, story, board game and other crafts.
What’s more, each resource includes different templates so you can differentiate for different levels or repeat the story across year groups but using different templates.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! There are a range of templates to choose from within each resource so it’s super-easy to differentiate. The included Activity Suggestions will also give you ideas about how you can conduct the activity so each child can work (play!) to their full potential.
Definitely! (You knew I would say that!) No, but seriously speaking, I started making these resources for just one class but I’ve now used them several times over. I’ve even used them with the same groups in subsequent years, because the different templates allow me to vary the activity and language focus.
It’s also easily possible to use many of resources independently of the story when working on food or lifecycles.
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My students really enjoy the variety of these activities. We’ve been dealing with this storybook for over a week now (4 classes), and there’s still a lot to do. Whenever I decide to buy something from Fiona, I feel relieved that I won’t have to spend too much time preparing for this group’s classes.
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Great to hear Veronika! I’m so glad that the resources save you time and your students like them. Thanks for letting me know : )
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