Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a classic tale, well known to parents and children alike. As the Hungry Caterpillar emerges from his egg, and makes his way through the week, children can follow his colourful and engaging journey.

Travelling Tales from Hope Education provides everything you need to tell the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar and build a variety of cross-curricular lessons. The pack also includes a printed mat that links to the story, a non-fiction book about flowers and butterflies, a fun game and a soft toy caterpillar that ‘turns’ into a beautiful butterfly and includes life-cycle cards. The handy teacher’s guide offers a variety of lesson starters and ideas to help build lessons for children in nursery and up.

• Using the printed story mat and the puppet, children can retell the story. Reinforcing the days of the week, early numeracy and sequencing, as well as supporting early literacy skills.
• Inject fun with the Mini Bugs Bingo game included. This will help to develop observational, social and memory skills.
• Bring Science to life and study the lifecycle of caterpillars with the non-fiction book.
• Teach a series of quality literacy lessons using a range of cross-curricular resources and the Teacher Guide for inspiration.

What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?

• 1 x copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar picture book & CD
• 1 x Caterpillar Soft toy with 4 life-cycle cards.
• 1 x Little Bugs Bingo game
• 1 x Non-fiction book
• 1 x printed story mat
• 1 x Teacher Guide

Contents may vary from description.