Theme: Spoon, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Age: Honey Pot is 2 years and 5 months old
This month the Virtual Book Club is featuring Amy Krouse
Rosenthal! We took out the only three of her books that our library had, and
decided to choose Spoon for our activities. Keep reading to see what we
did!
Spoon Girl Craft
First we made our own spoon girl! I found a cute plastic one
that she could decorate for under a dollar. I provided the glue, googly eyes,
snippets of yarn and one chenille stem for arms. She put on a dab of glue for
the eyes and placed them on the spoon:
Then added a little more for her hair:
And I added a mouth with marker and tied on the arms. Then
we enjoyed our craft with a little bit of pretend play (Honey Pot’s very
favorite thing to do).
Spoon’s Family
In the book, we are shown a picture of Spoon’s family.
I thought it was so cute, I had to incorporate it into our
activities today! I grabbed a few spoons from her kitchen and mine, and we played
with them for a bit. They had a short conversation then we gave a few of them
names such as “Brother” and “Aunt.”
We lined them all up, and I asked Honey Pot to count all of
the members of Spoon’s family. She counted twelve, pointing to each one as she
counted. She did great!
Then we sorted them by size – big and small:
And finally, we sorted them by color – pinks, grays, browns and blues:
Writing Practice
On Pinterest I keep seeing adorable worksheets for
preschoolers to practice their writing skills. Lead the pig to his pen by
tracing the line…for example. I just had to create one for Honey Pot. First I made
the page in Photoshop Elements, based on a scene in the book. Spoon’s mother
told him how special it is to be a spoon because he can dip into a bowl of ice cream,
clink on the side of cereal bowl and relax in a hot cup of tea. So Honey Pot
could lead the spoon to each of these places. I let her choose between crayon, marker, pen or pencil…she chose a pencil. I guided her hand
along each line first, to give her and idea of what I was asking her to do.
Then I had her try it herself.
She did fairly well for her first time!
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