Book-n-Craft Advent Activities - December 4th

Our fourth book is Little Porcupine's Christmas by Joseph Slate. It is illustrated by Felicia Bond who just happens to be the illustrator for the If You Give A....series of books. It is a cute story of Little Porcupine wanting a part in the play but his classmates won't let him have one because he is too prickly. He ends up saving the Christmas play!

We have been learning the 12 Days of Christmas song. I found these cute printables from 1+1+1=1. First J had to put the cards in number order. Then we sang the song and put the correct pictures on the numbers.

 

She would point to each picture as we sang the song. Her favorite part is five gold rings.

We played another game based on the song. This was to have her practice her number writing. We each had a game sheet and we rolled dice. We could either combine the dice (addition skills) or use each number separately. Then we wrote the numbers on the correct pictures. The first one to complete their board won. J won this time.

J then made a porcupine ornament. She painted the ends of the porcupine and a small paper plate brown. After it dried, she glued them together and added toothpick "spines."

I am hoping the toothpicks will stay, if not, I have to come up with another idea. Then, J made a playdough porcupine using toothpicks.

J just about cleaned me out of toothpicks. She kept asking for more because she felt it wasn't prickly enough. Cute book. Only how more to go.....?