Insect Week!!

Ah, I can finally catch a breath.  We are closed this week for the holiday and I am finally getting a chance to sit down and tell you all about last week at Wee Speech Therapy.

We love love LOVE the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" at Wee Speech so we decided to make a whole week of insect fun during our summer camp! 

We started each session reading the book with the kids.  If we don't own a copy of the weekly book, I check it out from the Hartsville Memorial Library.  The sweet lady at the library pointed out that they have a selection of puppets to go along with a few of their children's books.

The kids loved the hands on experience of "feeding" the caterpillar the various foods that he ate each day.

For a fun gross motor activity, we had an "Insect Hunt".  We found these hats and nets at the Dollar Tree.  The kids loved them! 

We hid pictures of various insects throughout the building and the kids had to "catch" them in their nets.

This summer, we have two graduate students from USC working with us.  They found awesome crafts for our kids to make this week.

Our first craft was making a caterpillar from an egg carton.  The kids colored the cartons, added silly eyes and pipe cleaners.

For the second craft, Miss Kristin and Miss Deanna pulled this coloring sheet off of Google images.

The kids colored the various food items, describing their taste and colors as they went along.  When they finished, they turned a paper bag into a caterpillar using crayons, silly eyes, and pipe cleaners. 

They then "fed" their caterpillars the food items. 

For the third craft, the kids decorated their own butterfly masks.  We used jewels left over from Pirate Week, glitter glue, crayons and streamers.

Have you ever eaten a caterpillar?  Or a spider?  Well we did.. all week at Wee Speech Therapy.

I am so excited about these caterpillar sandwiches!  The fruit even had holes from where the caterpillar had eaten through it! 

We also had our kids make their very own caterpillar cupcakes and spider cookies!

We had such an awesome week learning about insects!  We will pick up next week with an Under the Sea unit!  We have so many fun things planned for the kids!  We may even have a special guest next week!  Stay tuned and have a great 4th of July from Wee Speech Therapy!