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The Very Busy Spider Activities

by Melissa A. Johnson Leave a Comment

Very Busy Spider book activities

What little child doesn’t love an Eric Carle book?! The Very Busy Spider is a super fun book that can be used to learn about spiders. I am going to show you how to use it and cover geography, literacy, theatre arts, math, science, art & crafts, fine motor skills, and hand & eye coordination activities. You can also discuss the importance of being a hard worker and finishing your work before you go play as seen demonstrated in the book by the very busy spider. The Arts A fun way … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Activities, Kindergarten, Preschool Tagged With: book activities, eric carle, spiders

Alphabet Mystery Letter Hunt Activity

by Angela Thayer Leave a Comment

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. For more information, please see my disclosure. Today I'm sharing with you a fun and interactive activity to go along with the book Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood. In this book, a group of lowercase letters go on an adventure to find the missing letter x. Once they find letter x, they see that he is upset because he is not used very much. He later learns that his letter is very important to make Mom's birthday surprise special, as he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alphabet, Book Activities, Preschool Tagged With: alphabet, book activities, soap foam

Dragons Love Tacos Book Activities

by Angela Thayer 2 Comments

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure for more information. Today I'm excited to share with you some really fun activities for one of our favorite books, Dragons Love Tacos. I got this book for Troy earlier this spring and the boys and I have enjoyed reading it many times. I've been wanting to do book themed days throughout the summer, so I decided to start with this book. This book is all about dragons and their love for tacos. However, the dragons do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Activities Tagged With: book activities, book day, busy bags

“Leaves” Book Activities

by Angela Thayer 2 Comments

One of my favorite books for preschoolers during fall is called Leaves. It's a book about a bear's first year of hibernation. I love this book because it talks about the beautiful leaves of fall and also goes through the seasonal changes in trees. It's a book with simple words and beautiful illustrations that make it easy for kids to understand. After reading this book to my kids, we made a sensory bin to go along with it. First, we gathered beautiful fall leaves from outside. Is this a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Activities, Fall Activities, Preschool, Printables Tagged With: book activities, leaves, letter L, sensory bin

Ten Apples Up On Top Counting Activity

by Angela Thayer 3 Comments

Last week, Wes and I started doing preschool at home. The letter we started learning about is 'A' and we are doing lots of activities with apples. One of my favorite apple books is Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss. I was inspired to do this activity after reading this idea from Buggy and Buddy. We put our own twist on the activity and it was a lot of fun! In this book, there is a lot of counting. The characters in the story are adding apples to the top of their head throughout the story. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fall Activities, Reading Tagged With: book activities, preschool

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