Thursday, February 4, 2010

stART Project - The Mitten


One of our favorite books recently has been The Mitten by Jan Brett. I found this adorable printable from Jan Brett's website that we had so much fun with.

Bekah colored the animals and I cut them out.

After the animals were colored she wanted to color the mitten.

We used double sided tape to attach the sides and top of the mitten. Then, as I read the story Bekah would put the animals into the mitten.

She had so much fun with this craft!

We also had fun doing this mitten activity that I found at childcareland.com
It follows the Brown Bear, Brown Bear idea. I had Bekah call out what colors would come next and choose that color. For example, "Red Mitten, Red Mitten, what do you see?" "I see a yellow mitten looking at me..." and so on until all the mittens are looking at me.


You can see what others are doing for their stART project at A Mommy's Adventures.

11 comments:

  1. we love the book the mitten

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  2. Jan Brett's website is AWESOME! Exposing your daughter to such beautiful art work is a great thing!

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  3. This is one of Ryleigh's favorite books too :)

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  4. Very neat activity from Jan Brett. I love that those books have so many printables to go along with them.

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  5. I think its great that there are printables available to enhance little one's experience with the books :)

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  6. Nice craft. Bekah clearly likes to color. I can recommend another Jan Brett book that is just like Mitten but is set in Rainforest. It's called The Umbrella. We enjoyed reading it more than Mitten even though I still don't like quarreling animals.

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  7. We LOVE the Mitten... what a fun go-along project. Thanks for sharing! :)

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  8. My daughter did this craft in 4K. I wondered where her teacher found the printable. Thanks for posting it! :)

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  9. Love your blog- found it at Friday Follower! Such cute ideas... come check mine out if you get the chance- HAppy Friday!

    www.somewhatorganizedslightlycrafty.blogspot.com

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  10. This is a great book, we have been enjoying it as well. I love this project, she looks like she had a lot of fun :0)

    Thank you for linking up!

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  11. LOVE this book!!! Here are some activities we did with it:

    http://dressesandmesses.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/the-mitten/

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