Mice
- Gather your materials. You will need a small cardboard box from your recycling bin, a marker,pipe cleaner, glue, googly eyes, some paint and a paintbrush.
- Cut your box flat and draw one large Oval and two smaller ones.
- Draw a nose and whiskers on the large oval with a black marker.
- Have your child paint the ovals. Let dry, I sped up the process by wiping the excess paint off with a paper towel.
- Cut out the ovals out .
- Glue the ears and eyes on.
- Poke a hole near the bottom of the body and attach the pipe cleaner (I cut mine in half) for a tail!
Books!
” Fredrick” by Leo Lionni is a fable about the importance of imagination. When all the mice are working hard to gather things for winter Fredrick is quietly taking in the sun, and colors they will need to help get them through the dark, cold hungry days ahead. The other mice don’t see why this is so important until everything they have gathered runs out and they need Fredrick and his imagination to help them make it ! Great commentary about art being vital. Your toddler may not pick up on that but you will !
” If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” by Laura Numeroff if you haven’t read this yet I am really shocked, grab it!! It’s a fun book about what happens when you give a mouse a cookie… the demands keep flowing but so will your child’s imagination and enjoyment. Children love these books, and because they are short you will notice that they will start “reading” them to you very very soon. Fun stuff!
