The Very Hungry Caterpillar / Gladna guenica

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a book by Eric Carle, is very popular. We got ours from a very dear friend when V was one. He loved it then, and he still loves it. For those who don't know, the book is about a hungry caterpillar who eats everything in his way. After popping out of an egg on Sunday, the very hungry caterpillar eats holes through the books pages as he eats his way through a variety of foods, beginning with an apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday and ending with five oranges on Friday and 10 defferent foods on Saturday. The now very fat caterpillar builds a cocoon. After staying in it for two weeks, he nibbles a hole in the cocoon and emerges a beautiful butterfly. Every page in this book has a hole on it where the caterpillar eats through the food, and putting his fingers in the holes is something that V loves the most. 

So, one day, after eating a lot of tangerines, we decided to make our orange caterpillar. We tore the tangerine peels into pieces of approximately same size and then punched a hole in the center of each piece with a paper hole-puncher. V loved this part!

Gladna gusenica, knjiga Erika Karla je veoma popularna u svetu. Mi smo našu dobili od veoma drage prijateljice kad je V imao godinu dana. Svidela mu se tada, i još uvek mu se sviđa. Za one koji ne znaju, ova knjiga je o jednoj gladnoj gusenici koja jede sve na šta naiđe. Nakon što se izlegla iz jajeta u nedelju, gladna gusenica je u ponedeljak pojela jednu jabuku, u utorak - dve kruške, a u petak je pojela pet pomorandži, da bi u subotu pojela čak 10 različitih vrsta hrane (od čokoladne torte do lubenice). Onda je, sada veoma debela gusenica, napravila sebi čauru i nakon dve nedelje iz nje se izlegao prelepi leptir!

Na svakoj stranici knjige nalaze se rupice koje je "progrizla" gusenica jedući svoju hranu. V, naravno, najviše od svega, voli da stavlja svoje prstiće u njih.

Tako smo jednoga dana, nakon što smo se, kao gladna gusenica dobro najeli mandarina, odlučili da napravimo našu narandžastu gusenicu. Sačuvali smo kore od mandarina i iscepkali ih na komade približno iste veličine. Svaki komadić smo u sredini probušili bušačem za rupe. Ovaj deo se V-u najviše dopao!

After that I made a knot at the end of the string so that the pieces do not fall out, and V beaded the pieces on the string. One hole at a time.

And voila! That's it, simple as that!

Potom sam zavezala čvor na jednom kraju kanapa da komadići probušenih kora ne bi spali, a V ih je nanizao provlačeći kanap kroz rupice.

I, eto, to je to!