If You Give a Moose a Muffin- book+activities



This week we read the book, If You Give a Moose a Muffin  by Laura Numeroff. It was a book we read last year for the letter/sound M and I was debating reading it again, then I saw it was the recommended book from Readinglessons.com.  This moose keeps the little boy just as busy as the mouse keeps the boy in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and the pig keeps the girl in If You Give a Pig a Pancake.  Have a mentioned I love these books? 

Earlier in the week we made muffins. 

Then today I had another spur of the moment project/activity idea.

Why not make sock puppets like the moose did in the book.

So I cut out the needed parts and found my pair of holey socks.

We glued a piece of cardboard inside the sock so that when we

glued on the other parts the glue wouldn't go through.

The girls glued their ear parts together:

For the rest of the parts we used white glue.

We glued on the ears and eyes.

Then the nose and whiskers:

Just as an FYI, the white glue wasn't holding the whiskers on, so

Steven hot glued them on later.

Then we made the props for our puppet show/play. 

The reason we made a mouse instead of the moose is because I didn't have any

brown socks.  The moose in the book also made a mouse.

So we made the mice in anticipation of doing a puppet show of

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Here we are making the props.

Cookie:

(brown paper circle with black hole punch dot chocolate chips)

Mirror:

(Foil wrapped cardboard.  We glued it on, shinier side out)

(an index card and crayon to represent the paper and crayon

the mouse asks for to draw a picture)

Here are the props all ready to go, attached to straws.

(cookie, milk, napkin, mirror, broom, book (made from small piece of cardboard folded over with a piece of paper folded inside.  The two page book reads, "If you give a mouse...a cookie"), and the piece of paper with a crayon taped on.)

Our love seat turned stage:

Getting ready to put on the play:

Sorry these are so dark, not sure why.  The girls had such a good time putting on the plays for their daddy and then again for big brother and sister.