crochet pattern colorful amigurumi caterpillar bath sponge

With this cheerful caterpillar made of fluffy sponge yarn babies and children have even more fun when bathing.
But also for adults, the caterpillar is a beautiful eye-catcher in the bathroom!

The colorful caterpillar (which you can of course also crochet in other colors or plain) is very nice as a gift for birth, baptism or birthday of the child.

Skills Required / What You'll Receive

Level of difficulty: medium for experienced crocheters,
not suitable for beginners without experience

Required knowledge (US term)
magic ring, slip stich, chain stich, single crochet, crochet single crochets together. Sewing crochet pieces together

Size Information

Size approx. 5.5 cm = 2.2 inch wide, 24 cm 9.5 inch long

Materials List

approx. 60 g special sponge yarn from
Rico Design Creative Bubble (50g / 90m) or
Stafil Spongy (25g / 43m) or
Tobi‘s yarn Scubbies (32,5 g / 60m) or
TYH Supplies Scrub yarn (32,5g / 60m)
(note: Not the red heart scrubby yarn – the characteristics are too different to the recommended yarns above)

some black yarn (e.g. cotton) for eyes and mouth
Crochet hook 4.0 / US size 8 / UK size G or 6
Wool needle for sewing threads
Scissors

If you want to crochet the cute caterpillar from acrylic yarn or cotton yarn, you will also need stuffing material.

For the caterpillar from the pattern I used Creative Bubble
approx. 18 g color 02 yellow
approx. 12 g color 04 Pink
approx. 10 g color 06 red
approx. 10 g color 25 neon orange
approx. 10 g color 28 neon green