The document provides a week's worth of activities for Authors Week focused on Eric Carle books, including a hermit crab craft using handprints, cloud dough sensory bin, rescuing sea creatures from pipe cleaners, and making cricket footprints.
The document provides a week's worth of activities for Authors Week focused on Eric Carle books, including a hermit crab craft using handprints, cloud dough sensory bin, rescuing sea creatures from pipe cleaners, and making cricket footprints.
The document provides a week's worth of activities for Authors Week focused on Eric Carle books, including a hermit crab craft using handprints, cloud dough sensory bin, rescuing sea creatures from pipe cleaners, and making cricket footprints.
The document provides a week's worth of activities for Authors Week focused on Eric Carle books, including a hermit crab craft using handprints, cloud dough sensory bin, rescuing sea creatures from pipe cleaners, and making cricket footprints.
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Authors Week (Eric Carle)
Monday, 3/4 Handprint Hermit Crab Target: Arts
Link to Activity: Handprint Hermit Crab Craft - The Kindergarten Connection Cut out a large circle to resemble the hermit crab’s shell. Have them decorate the shell however they please. Next, have the child stamp their hand in red paint, and cut out their handprint. Glue the thumb to the shell, upside down. Attach pipe cleaners and googly eyes to finish off! PM Activity: Ocean Animals (Follow Up Literature Worksheet) Link: Ocean Animals, Lesson Plans - The Mailbox Tuesday, 3/5 Cloud Dough Target: Sensory, Science Mix 8 cups of flour, 1 ½ cups of vegetable oil, and blue food coloring together. Link: Cloud Dough Sensory Bin - Pre-K Pages PM Activity: Weather Tracing Link: Free Printable Clouds Activity Sheets - Frugal Mom Eh! Wednesday, 3/6 Rescue the Sea Creatures Target: Fine Motor, Exploration Wrap various sea creatures and animals in pipe cleaners. Tell the children that they are stuck and must work on freeing them! Encourage them to use their imagination and free thinking. PM Activity: Seahorse Coloring Page Thursday, 3/7 Cricket Footprint Target: Arts Stamp the child’s foot into green paint onto white paper. Attach googly eyes and add legs & antlers! Link to Activity: Footprint Preschool Cricket Craft (powerfulmothering.com) PM Activity: The Very Quiet Cricket (Follow Up Literature Worksheet) Link: The Very Quiet Cricket Coloring Page - Coloring Nation Books: A House for Hermit Crab, Little Cloud, Mister Seahorse, The Very Quiet Cricket