100+ Eric Carle Activities and Crafts for Kids!

Eric Carle is a beloved author of colorful picture books for kids. Here’s several Eric Carle Activities to do with your child. One of the easiest ways to connect with his books is to encourage children to paint their own versions of his colorful characters.

Here are a few ways to create art, games and activities inspired by Eric Carle.

Learning about authors and connecting with them can be one of the greatest ways to teach your own child about becoming a writer and an inspire them to read!

We’ve team up with several other bloggers to celebrate one of our favorite authors…ERIC CARLE! Here’s your chance to learn about Eric Carle with your child and see how much fun you can have as you’re inspired by his imagination!

Eric Carle Resources for Author Study

Happy Birthday Eric Carle!

Eric Carle has his own website that I encourage you to visit. He even has a special portion where he shares videos of how he creates his pictures.

Eric Carle’s Photo and Video Gallery

Go Visit Eric Carle’s Blog for newest info

Visit The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Listen to Eric Carle read The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Popular Eric Carle Books

If there was one author to keep on your child’s books shelf, I personally feel it should be Eric Carle. From the colors to the word selection they are stories that children are drawn to and that they can easily start to read on their own.

Here are some of my favorite Eric Carle books.

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• The Very Busy Spider
• 10 Little Rubber Ducks
• The Very Lonely Firefly
• The Grouchy Ladybug
• Little Cloud
• The Tiny Seed
• The Very Quiet Cricket
• A House for Hermit Crab
• 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo: A Counting Book

Eric Carle Activities for Kids 

• Create your Own Very Hungry Caterpillar Party
• Host a Eric Carle Book Playdate with Friends
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet 
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar LEGO Fun
• Learning Food Groups
• Caterpillar Math with Recycled Lids
• Lacing Letters Caterpillar Activity 

• The Very Quiet Cricket Virtual Book Club Activities
• Eric Carle on Amazon
• Letter Bugs using Recycled Lids
• The Grouchy Ladybug
• The Tiny Seed: Math Fun

• Painting a Bug

Sometimes it’s the simplest activities that help connect your child to a book. We created some bugs in response to reading Eric Carle’s Books.

My daughter had so much fun and really discovered her creative side by painting the paper first with watercolors and then cutting the papers to create her own insect creations. The featured image in from our school in a group project.

We love our Stories for All Seasons by Eric Carle. Inside it contains Rooster’s Off to See the World, A House for Hermit Crab and The Tiny Seed.

It’s a great collection to have all in one storybook too.

• The Tiny Seed Activity

Planting Zinnia seeds and dreaming up our own The Tiny Seed story can be fun. Retelling a story can be so much for fun when it’s with a real object. Every year we save our blossoms from our zinnias and replant the and share them with friends.

This year I had my daughter create her own story about the tiny seed and where she thought it would drift off too. I wonder what your child could imagine would happen to a tiny seed?

Be sure to grab our free printable unit for The Tiny Seed: Math Fun

30+ Ideas for Eric Carle Playdate

• How to Host an Eric Carle Playdate
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COME JOIN THE FUN WITH ERIC CARLE

Now comes the fun part! How do you bring the magic of Eric Carle into your home? We’ve joined up with some of our favorite bloggers to create a fantastic Resource of Eric Carle Activities for your child.

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Eric Carle Videos for Kids to Watch

Additional Author Studies

We invite you to join our Year Long Virtual Book Club for Kids featuring a different Authors and Themes each week!

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