The Hungry Caterpillar

A few months back I bought a fabulous book called How to Make Books by Esther K. Smith & since then I have been rather keen on making little books! During one of my blog hops I stumbled upon a blog called Making Books with Children. It included a little 'how to' based on Eric Carle's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar (see here). I couldn't resist making one myself! It's a type of book known as a step book & I tied it all together with green ribbon. I strung plastic beads on the ends just for fun!
I tried to make the illustrations very simple from bits of paper....

...and then I used wax crayons to add a bit of texture.

It was fun! The book itself was very easy to make, as you would expect for something designed for children to make themselves.

I used textured & embossed papers for the strawberries which I cut out with a sizzix die. I added the hand cut stalks.

The oranges are my favourite fruits that I made. I love the little star bits (what are they called?) & the long stalk & leaf.

When I reached Saturday my thoughts of making things simple went out the window a little & I just had fun creating collage food! I used the text that was part of the blog 'how to' but adapted it on this page to include the caterpillar having tummy ache! These two pages were great to make. It's been ages since I made something purely for the fun of creating.

I really like how the cherry pie turned out! And the swirly purpley lollipop too!

I thought about punching holes in the food like Eric Carle's book but it required too much fore thought & I was impatient & just wanted to make the book. Maybe next time I will do it?

I think I had the most fun making the butterfly. I wanted to make him as much like Eric Carle's original illustration as I could. It took a while but I think it was worth it. Making books is great! :o)