Book-n-Craft Advent Activities December 14th

Our 14th book (and counting...) is Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood. This is a sequel of sorts to The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear. In this book, the mouse does a very sweet thing for the bear whom he finds out doesn't have any presents. It is a cute story that teaches the spirit of giving. We played a rhyming game with some presents that I colored. J had to guess what color my present was based on the rhyming words.

We also played Don't Eat Pete again. This time I convinced her to take turns being the guesser and the Pete holder. She likes this game.

Our craft for this book was to make a paper snowglobe. First, I painted her hand with white paint and placed it on the blue paper. She added snowflakes by using the eraser of a pencil dipped in white paint.

After it was dry, J added the snowman details using markers.

We then glued it to black paper to make it look like a snow globe. For the circle patterns, I just traced some plastic lids.

This turned out cute and I love that the snowmen are made from her handprint. I have seen a version of this craft using a Christmas ball. What a neat keepsake. I always love stuff made from my kids handprints. Moving on......