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Thursday, October 7, 2010

If You Give a Moose a Muffin- book+activities

Shibley Smiles





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.


9 comments:

  1. ooo so fun!! Looks like the girls had a blast!

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  2. Oh my, things just get more and more fun at your house! First the sewing project and now this fabulously cute puppet theatre!!

    Maggy
    Do link up with Kids Get Crafty
    www.redtedart.com

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  3. What adorable mouse sock puppets. I love that you made the book into a puppet show!

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  4. How fun! I'm sure they loved it, and your puppet is so cute.

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  5. Oh my that is just down right adorable!! Love it!

    When you check out our stART project, also check out my interview with Leah from Almost Unschoolers!

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  6. Wow! They did great - and you did too - what a terrific project to set up for them!

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  7. This is so cool! I really like the mouse puppet. The play is awesome. Thank you for sharing.

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  8. Great idea to turn a favorite story into a play! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. I love the puppets and the puppet show. This is such a wonderful way to retell a story.

    Thanks for linking up to Read.Explore.Learn. Your post is a perfect example of exploring books.

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