Resource to help you when reading the classic children's picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. It provides you with the signs you need, together with a few symbols, to help children to talk about the story and take part.

Makaton line drawings of signs for apple, ate, beautiful, big, fat, built, butterfly, caterpillar, cocoon, cupcake, insect's egg, feel much better, five, food, four, Friday, green, house, hungry, ice cream cone, lay on, leaf, light, little, lollipop, look, Monday, Moon, morning, more, nibbled, night, one, oranges, pears, piece of cherry pie, piece of chocolate cake, pickle, plums, Saturday, sausages, slice of salami, slice of Swiss cheese, slice of watermelon, stayed, stomach ache, strawberries, Sunday, three, Thursday, Tuesday, two, warm, wasn't, Wednesday, and weeks.

Makaton symbols for butterfly, caterpillar, coccon, eat, Friday, good, hungry, Monday, Saturday, stomach ache, Sunday, Thursday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.