Potato Stamped Hungry Hungry Caterpillar

Cut a couple small potatoes and get to stamping our adorable Potato Stamped Hungry Hungry Caterpillar! This is a great craft and art project after reading the book, during an Eric Carle art lesson, or while learning about butterflies.

You can make your caterpillar after the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, or go crazy with colors. That way, it’s also a fun way to learn about colors, too. So it’s a teachable moment all around.

Make the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar with Potato Stamps

To make our Potato Stamped Hungry Hungry Caterpillars you will need small potatoes. We used red potatoes, but baby reds or even fingerlings would work well, too.

The remainder of the supplies include white paper, acrylic paints, small googly eyes, and a black marker.

Hungry Hungry Caterpillar Craft Supplies Needed

Small potatoes
White paper
Acrylic paint – red, dark green, light green, black, assorted colors
Googly eyes, small
Black marker

Potato Stamped Caterpillar Step by Step Directions

Begin by cutting the potatoes in half.

You will need one half of a potato for every color used.

Now, spread paint on a flat surface. We like to use paper plates. Dip a cut potato in a color of paint.

And stamp on a white sheet of paper. To get the most space on our white paper, we flipped it diagonally.

Continue stamping with more colors until your caterpillar is formed. To make nice circular shapes, we rotated the potato stamp in a circle while still pressed against the paper.