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Eric Carle Craft Ideas For A Good Story Time

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Calling all my crafty moms and teachers!!! You are going to LOVE this Eric Carle kid craft collection post!

To celebrate one of my personal FAVORITE childhood authors growing up – today I’ve rounded up ALL the Eric Carle themed kid crafts on the blog into one BIG roundup!

Just like ALL our kid friendly crafts & tutorials on the website – these Eric Carle preschool craft ideas are super simple, fun for all ages and really inexpensive too. PLUS they make for a great way to tie everything together with story time & craft time afterwards!

So what are you waiting for? Click around below for some inspiration, grab those craft supplies and get to work on these simple DIY kid crafts ASAP!

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR SEUSS CRAFT ROUNDUP AS WELL!

A children’s pool noodle craft inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar shows a caterpillar painted with green circles and a red head on white paper. Craft materials, including a pool noodle, and the book are visible nearby.

Pool Noodle Stamped Caterpillar

A child’s potato masher stamped craft features a caterpillar made with colorful painted prints on brown paper, complete with eyes, mouth, and antennae. Colorful papers and a potato masher are nearby. Orange banner reads @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

Potato Masher Stamped Caterpillar Craft Idea

A simple Paper Plate Spider that goes along with the book “The Very Busy Spider.”

A HUNGRY CATERPILLAR CRAFT, this green paper plate creation features a caterpillar face with red and green construction paper, displayed on colorful paper next to The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS watermark.

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” is a favorite for most and this Paper Plate Caterpillar is sure to be a BIG hit too! We also have our Paper Chain Caterpillar post as well!

A children’s book titled The Very Hungry Caterpillar at the Bakeshop is shown with pastel paper, a caterpillar craft made from a cupcake liner and colored dots, coding label crafts supplies, and an @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS tag.

Use cupcake liners and dot stickers for this fun caterpillar craft idea

A children’s book titled The Duck Says sits beside a duck face craft made with a paper plate, yellow squares, and orange paper—perfect inspiration for story time crafts. Red felt hearts and GLUEDTOMYCRAFTSBLOG.COM decorate the background.

This Duck Craft is absolutely perfect for the book “10 Little Rubber Duckies”

A copy of A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle is displayed with colorful paper sheets, a seashell paper plate craft, and a red paper plate hermit crab with googly eyes. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is labeled.

Customize your own hermit crab shell with this simple kids craft that goes along with the book “A House for Hermit Crab”

A colorful paper flower kids craft made with layered, cut-out handprints for petals, a green stem, and a center of yellow tissue paper on a paper plate, decorated with small gems. A watermark reads @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

Grow your own Handprint Flower to read along with “The Tiny Seed”

A paper plate craft of a chef’s face with a large paper chef hat, googly eyes, paper mustache, and nose, placed on a red checked napkin with kitchen-themed cutouts—perfect for story time crafts. @GluedToMyCrafts is written at the bottom.

This adorable Baker is perfect for the book “Walter The Baker” We also have chefs made out of popsicle sticks and wooden spoons for you to check out.

A red paper plate cut in half and decorated as a ladybug with black spots, googly eyes, black antennae, and yarn legs—a fun pick for INSECT CRAFT IDEAS. A hole punch and colorful papers are nearby. A label reads @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

This Paper Plate Ladybug Kid Craft is FAR from grouchy but it does go along perfectly with the book “The Grouchy Ladybug”

A colorful Hungry Caterpillar craft features a hand-shaped cutout adorned with paper flowers and a caterpillar, inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. Blue paper, pastel eggs in a basket, and the book complete the scene. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is below.

FINGERPRINT CATERPILLAR ON HANDPRINT BRANCH

Paper Plate Black Cat

Paper Plate Green Cricket

Pipe Cleaner Caterpillar – Hungry Caterpillar Craft

Egg Carton Caterpillar – The Hungry Caterpillar Book

A HUNGRY CATERPILLAR CRAFT made of paper flower shapes—two green and one red—with googly eyes, a smile, and drawn antennae and legs on a light blue background. Text at bottom reads @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

FLOWER SHAPED CATERPILLAR CRAFT IDEA

A blue card featuring two paper plate seahorses—one pink, one yellow—decorated with colored paper and googly eyes, perfect for story time crafts. The card says, “Swimming by to say ‘I love you!’” in hand-drawn letters and hearts.

Cupcake Liner Seahorse

A colorful seahorse craft made from blue paper, yellow spikes, a googly eye, and tissue paper squares—perfect for story time crafts—displayed beside the book Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle and patterned papers.

Paper Plate Seahorse

This HUNGRY CATERPILLAR CRAFT features a caterpillar made of colorful cupcake liners on a leaf drawing, complete with googly eyes and yellow antennae, displayed next to the beloved book cover.

Cupcake Liner Caterpillar

A fun Eric Carle craft project featuring a large green letter C decorated with colorful pom-poms, topped with a red paper snail head with googly eyes and a smile, perfect for story time crafts on a white sheet of paper.

Pom Pom “C” is for Caterpillar

Two children’s books about pancakes and a story time craft—a paper plate pancake with brown paper "syrup" and yellow "butter"—displayed on a table with the handle @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS. Perfect inspiration for Eric Carle crafts!.

Paper Plate Pancake Craft Idea

A paper plate craft of a caterpillar with red and green circles, googly eyes, and felt flowers sits beside the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is printed at the bottom.

PAPER PLATE AND CIRCLE PUNCH CATERPILLAR

Two Very Hungry Caterpillar books, fall-themed scrapbook paper, and a HUNGRY CATERPILLAR CRAFT made from red and green paper rings with googly eyes are arranged together. A label reads “@GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.”.

Paper Chain Caterpillar

A copy of The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle sits beside a creative Eric Carle craft—a ladybug made from a paper plate, tissue paper, and googly eyes—perfect for story time crafts! @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS.

This Paper Plate Ladybug goes along perfectly with the book “The Grouchy Ladybug”

A HUNGRY CATERPILLAR CRAFT made from green-painted popsicle sticks with a red face, googly eyes, and gold glitter antennae sits on a wooden surface near a white window frame.

Wooden Spoon Caterpillar Puppet

A handmade Halloween card with black spider crafts—perfect for your next INSECT CRAFT IDEAS project—lies next to a Happy Halloween book, black paint, and craft supplies. The card says Happy Halloween and features stars.

Use pom poms, black paint and a plastic fork for this super quick BUSY SPIDER craft idea

A children's book with a colorful spider illustration is shown behind a craft stick spider made of wooden sticks, black paper legs, and two large googly eyes. @GLUEDTOMYCRAFTS is written at the bottom.

Popsicle Stick Spider Craft Idea

A symmetrical black cat face made from paint, with googly eyes, a pink paper nose, white pipe cleaner whiskers, and black paper ears—a fun Eric Carle craft displayed on layered colored paper.

Paint Splat Black Cat Craft Idea

A children’s book titled The Rabbit and the Turtle is displayed with a green turtle craft made from a paper plate, green paper, and tissue paper—an adorable Eric Carle craft that resembles the turtle on the book cover.

Paper Plate and Tissue Paper Turtle Craft Idea

A seahorse craft made with cut paper and a child’s handprint is surrounded by colorful paper sea creatures, set on blue patterned paper—perfect for Eric Carle crafts—with the book Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle in the background.

Handprint Seahorse Keepsake

A colorful Eric Carle craft of a hermit crab made from paper, with a red handprint body, spiral shell, and googly eyes—plus stickers of a turtle, crab, and palm tree for a fun beach scene perfect for story time crafts.

Handprint Hermit Crab Craft Idea

Text saying LET'S GET CRAFTY! in teal letters, surrounded by colorful stars and heart shapes on a white background—perfect inspiration for making handprint clay ornaments.

Happy crafting {and reading} with your little ones, my friends! Please don’t forget to share pictures with us on our Facebook page to admire from afar!! We can’t wait to see what you create in honor of the beloved children’s book author! #gluedtomycrafts

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