Little Hoot

 This month the Kids Virtual Book Club we are participating in read Amy Krouse Rosenthal books. We read Little Pea and Little Oink (adorable books) but we did our activity on the book Little Hoot. Such a cute and funny story about an owl that unlike his friends wants to go to bed early!

Of course, we made an owl.
Marin loved using the glue. 

Glueing her owl on her tree branch...

Now for the eyes....
Can you tell she is enjoying the glue?

NOSE

And now for some painting! 

Handprint wings! 

I had some iron on transfers left from the marathon shirts, so we naturally turned our Little Hoot owl into a pillow case! (I did this part because as soon as I said "Marin, the iron is hot." She ran away and wouldn't come back. She knows what 'hot' means. :o) But peeling the paper back to reveal her owl was fun to her!

I should have cut around the owl but I forgot.
Still cute. 

And Marin LOVES it! 

Children's Book Club

COLOR ZOO

by Lois Ehlert

I decided to participate in the Virtual Book Club for Kids over at Mommy and Me Book Club. I love her blog and all the activities she does with books. So I decided to join and participate in the monthly book club. 

This month was Lois Ehlert, so we read Color Zoo. Marin was more interested in the shapes than the animals the shapes made. So we really did more shape activities. 

I found these tangram pieces and puzzle cards at the Dollar Tree and
thought they'd be perfect to go along with this book. 

I laminated the cards and put magnets on the back of the tangram pieces to help
her keep them in place.
This was still a little hard for her but she still enjoyed playing with them.

Then a Shape Texture Memory Game....

Using felt, pasta, paper clips, and pipe cleaner, I made shapes on cardboard for a memory game.
Marin (20 mths) loves touch and feel books so I thought she would like this game, but....

All she wanted to do was rip the shapes off the cardboard.
She was very frustrated that she could not get them off. :o)