Dance of the hungry caterpillar

Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and talk about the life cycle of a butterfly. Listen to music and begin to create movements that fit with the music. Use different levels of dance to create their own life cycles. Children potato print their own hungry caterpillars, order the story and make caterpillars from playdough.

Teaching Outcomes
Create a dance about the life cycle of a butterfly, moving rhythmically and in time with the music.

Children will:

• Understand the life cycle of a butterfly.
• Create movements to represent a caterpillar and a butterfly.
• Use different spaces in their dance, e.g. high, medium and low.
• Listen to the music and adjust their movement accordingly.

• Images from the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Potato printing images

• Potato for printing
• Post-it notes
• Playdough
• Leaves, either real or green paper
• Hall space
• Computer with speakers or CD player

classical pieces inspired by butterflies from wqxr.org