I am excited to share some book-inspired activities (and excellent early literacy activities) with you all this week!
If you’re a regular reader of Fun-A-Day, then you probably already know how important I think it is to read with children. Doing book-themed activities in the classroom can help a child better understand what they read in a fun and exciting way. Bringing books to life with fun projects is a great way to strengthen and sustain the children’s love of reading!
There were TONS of great link-ups at last week’s Stress-Free Sunday! Thanks to all of you who stopped by to share. Today’s features are all book-inspired activities for kids. If you’re familiar with Fun-A-Day, you know I’m rather partial to books and fun activities to extend them:
- Art and writing based on David Shannon’s Duck on a Bike
- Books to teach children about rhyming
- Activities based on Eric Carle’s books
- Thing 1 and Thing 2 Dress-Up based on The Cat in the Hat
- Book-Making about The Gingerbread Man
- Art Activity based on Lois Ehlert’s Snowballs
Now onto this week’s features:
- A Week of Weather: Day 2 – Clouds {Seedlings Nursery School}
- Baby-School: Exploring Ladybugs {House of Burke}
- Exploring the Art of Steam Train, Dream Train, Part 1 {Play Trains!}
- Happy Birthday Amy Krouse Rosenthal – April 29 {Happy Birthday Author}
I hope you had fun exploring all of the book-inspired activities listed above! I will be trying out the ideas from our features sometime this month (both at school and at home). If you have a moment, be sure to check out House of Burke’s first guest post over at Fun at Home with Kids — it’s a fun sensory board inspired by Lois Ehlert’s Planting a Rainbow.
Can you tell I get excited about books and all the fun kiddos can have with them?! Enough of my rambling, let’s get on with the link up!
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Now, grab a cup of coffee and join me for the Stress-Free Sunday link-up. You can link up anything family-friendly . . . it doesn’t have to be related to the ideas I shared above. Please keep in mind that, by linking up, you’re giving me permission to share a picture and a link back to your post. I can’t wait to see what you share this week!
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Thank you so much for featuring our first Steam Train, Dream Train art project! I’m back again with the second project this week. 🙂 Hope you’re having a great Sunday!
Of course, Jessica! I loved it, and I’m excited to read the second part of this art project. 🙂
Thank you so much for the shout-out, Mary Catherine. And such a great round-up! Off to pin it!!! 🙂
Aw, thanks Asia, for the comment and for the pin! 🙂
Thank you for featuring our cloud activities! I’ve been wanting to do more book-related activities, I can’t wait to check these out!
Your whole weather unit was a great read, Lindsey! I just love “It Looked Like Spilt Milk”, and your cloud activities looked so fun. 🙂
Thanks so much for hosting – hope you’re having a wonderful weekend, Alice x
Thanks for stopping by, Alice. The weekend went by too fast for me!
Thank you for featuring my SPOON activity!! I hope you have a great upcoming week!
All of those activities looked so much fun, but your SPOON activity had me with those wiggly eyes. 🙂 Hope your week is going well, Eric.
Thanks for hosting and happy Sunday. Such great features. Pinning!
Thanks so much, Sam! I appreciate you taking the time to link up. You always have so much fun going on at Thrive 360 Living. 🙂
Awesome features!
Thanks, Allison! I always love seeing what you’re up to at Train Up a Child. 🙂
thanks for hosting! am glad I can link up this week!…hopefully you can stop by and link up to our Pin it Blog hop
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Yay, thanks for linking up this weekend! I will pop by and check out your Pin It hop. 🙂
Thank you so much for featuring us MC and a super thank you for highlighting my first guest post! That was so nice of you!! 🙂
Of course Blayne! Both of those posts were awesome! 🙂
Thanks for hosting – love the book/activity connections! We are partial to those too (planning a few fun ones for summer reading 😉
Thanks for coming by, Jacquie! I can’t wait to hear about the book activities you do over the summer. 🙂