Love Bug Chocolate Caterpillar Valentines Craft

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Are you looking for some fun, inexpensive Valentine's day ideas?  How about these charming DIY chocolate caterpillar love bugs?

Love Bug chocolate sixlet caterpillar on paper leaf valentine tutorial.

They cost only pennies to make, and aren't they just darling?

Three love Bug chocolate sixlet caterpillar on paper leaf valentine on black chalkboard background

(Just wait until you see tomorrow's post--they go together)

love Bug chocolate sixlet caterpillar on paper leaf with heart shaped holes valentine on black chalkboard background

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just a chocolate love-bug munching on my leaf.

Chocolate Caterpillar Love Bug on a Leaf Valentines Tutorial

love Bug chocolate sixlet caterpillar on paper leaf with heart shaped holes valentine on black chalkboard background

I just love how this little guy has his mouth stuffed with a heart-shaped bit of leaf.

Green cardstock, googly eyes, pom poms, scissors, and sixlet candies on a white marble background.

Materials for Love Bug Caterpillar Valentines:

Piece of folded green paper, green paper cut into a leaf shape, scissors, and heart shaped paper punches on white marble background

Fold each long side of the green cardstock until the edge meets the center.  Cut a leaf shape, with the fold as the center of the leaf.  You can get 4 good-sized leaves out of one piece of cardstock.   Use a heart-shaped punch to make heart-shaped holes that the caterpillar has eaten through the leaves.

Three love Bug chocolate sixlet caterpillar on paper leaf with heart shaped holes valentine on black chalkboard background

Glue the sixlets in place as the body of the caterpillar.  I'm linking to the sixlets I used on Amazon, but I actually bought them at the dollar store, and it's WAY less expensive to buy them at the dollar store.  Look there first.  Add a pom pom head and some googly eyes.  Use the punched-out heart shape if you want your caterpillar to be munching on a lovely snack.

Chocolate caterpillar on leaf valentine and butterfly bubbles valentine on black chalkboard background.

And here's a little preview of what's coming tomorrow!  Yay, sneaky science learning!

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Nicole Wills, creator of Tikkido

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