Trace the Funny Caterpillars Worksheet for Preschoolers

How to use this worksheet

Point out the caterpillar's head and ask your child to trace each round body segment moving from the head toward the tail. Encourage them to keep the pencil on the dotted line, going around each circle rather than cutting across it. Once all the segments are traced, have your child color each one a different color to make the caterpillar look silly and fun, as the title suggests. Count the segments together out loud when you're done.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Crayons

Extension activities

• 1Roll small balls of playdough and connect them in a row to build a 3D caterpillar.
• 2Use an egg carton, cut into sections, to make a textured caterpillar craft.
• 3Go on a garden or park walk to look for a real caterpillar or its leaf-munching holes.
• 4Read a book featuring a caterpillar and count how many body segments it has in the pictures.
• 5Practice drawing circles freehand on scrap paper before returning to trace the worksheet again.