In our house, we do a lot of art projects and we love to do art projects that go along with the books that we read. In fact, we host a weekly playgroup where I read a story and then the children do an art project that goes with the story. Sometimes, I am really ambitious and even make a snack to go along with the theme. Today, I want to share with you a few ideas for simple art projects to do after popular children's stories. This is not a comprehensive list, but hopefully these ideas will get you think about simple projects that you can do with your preschooler after reading a story.
After reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, you can make a toilet tissue tree and decorate it with letter stickers. For a snack, I made homemade bread in the shapes of the children's initials-they loved their snacks!
When we read Sheep in a Jeep, we made handprint sheep
and enjoyed a marshmallow sheep snack.
We read Scuffy the Tugboat and made boats. For snack, the children enjoyed "boats" made from orange slices, celery sticks, and grapes (sorry, but I can't find a photo of the snack).
We read Where the Wild Things Are and made crowns so that we could be the "Queens of the Wild Things".
We have also planted carrot seeds after reading The Carrot Seed, made coffee filter butterflies to go with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, baked cookies after reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and made paper plate trees after reading The Giving Tree.
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These are wonderful ideas, Marla! We have read 'the little engine that could' and each created a box car from empty tissue boxes to create a train. We have also used craft sticks and attached colored paper 'puppets' to them in order to re-enact a story.
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