How stinkin' cute are these fraction caterpillars, or more accurately, fractionpillars that were featured by Dana over at Common to the Core?!? We love the play on words and what a cute way to introduce your kiddos to fractions this Spring.

Fractionpillars

Supplies:

Provide each of your kiddos with a piece of construction paper and allow them to choose 5 pom poms in three different colors (you could vary the number of poms if you're wanting to make a larger caterpillar).

Then, place a strip of hot glue onto the construction paper and have your students glue down their pom poms in any order they choose. They can then use a marker to draw on legs and antennae, gluing on a wiggle eye when they're all finished.

With the fractionpillar complete, have your students fill out a pre-printed worksheet documenting the color fractions represented by their cute little bug. You can easily recreate the worksheet in a word processing program! It should go something like this:

When Dana's class was finished, she displayed their creations on her bulletin board. A super cute Spring display!