Eric Karl Project

In this lesson we read the Eric Karl book " The Very Hungry Caterpillar".  We then had to come up with our own page to a book using the same kind of art Eric Karl did when making his books.  We made paper with patterns on it first.  Then we cut those papers up and used them in a layering format with overlapping to make our page. 

An extension activity for this lesson could be a writing assignment in Language Arts.  Each child finishes his or her own picture and then comes up with a story line and story behind it.  The student can pretend that the picture they have just made is the cover of their own little book.