We have borrowed this book three times now from the library. It's a fast favorite. I just love the title, but Will has loved reading it repeatedly every time we borrow it. Inside, there is a letter on each page that is surrounded by several peas. Each pea is busy doing some sort of activity that begins with that respective letter. For example, A is for astronaut and S is for scientist.
So for this story stretcher, we made our own pea pages with the first letter of the kids' names.
I had the letters pre-cut from construction paper and then we glued them down and put green thumbprints all around for our peas. Of course, for Sophie, this was a very hands-on task for me so I didn't get any pictures of her at work. But Will could do it on his own so I was able to snap a few of him. He sort of rolled and dragged his thumb with each one, so they look a little bit oval.
Then Will and I (& Craig) put our heads together to come up with some other "W" and "S" activities (different from the book) that our peas could be doing. Don't laugh - some things were very difficult to draw... especially with Will's ovals. Poor Craig had a heck of a time with the "wrestlers". He said "It looks like these spiders are about to attack each other!" Haha! But this is essentially what each page looks like in the book.
These were really fun and funny to make! :)
1 comment:
Hi! I just came upon your blog and this is FANTASTIC! I'm so excited to try some extended activities with my son. I have ideas but I may copy some, you're so creative! Thank you! (ps, I found your blog through a friend (partyof5))
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