On Tuesday, our mud themed book was Pete The Cat I Love My White Shoes, by Eric Litwin and James Dean. In the book, Pete steps in a lot of different things - including mud!
After reading the book, each child made a page for our class book. The teachers helped them to paint their feet, and print them on the page. Painting our feet was tickly!
I've made this class book activity, with a cover, available at
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Petes-Paint-Puddles-1292023 (for 50 cents).
Having teachers paint kids feet is fun, and makes a cool class book, but we needed to make this even more relevant to the children - so we went outside and
really stepped in colorful puddles of paint!
I knew we needed some large, heavy-duty paper to paint our foot prints
on, so I picked these up at Costco last week - they're used to divide
the layers of cereal boxes on the pallets. Perfect!
I wish I could claim responsibility for this wonderful idea, or at
least credit the blog where I saw it, but apparently it isn't pinned to
my
Pete the Cat board, and of course I don't remember. The abundance of ideas available on the web amazes me - and fuels my own creativity and teaching!
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