Once Upon a Book ~ The Mixed-up Chameleon

 

The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle

Summary: Your little one will giggle as the chameleon discovers he can change colors…and tries to look like the many animals in the zoo but all at the same time.

Bible Verse

Psalm 139:14

“I praise you because I am fearfully, wonderfully made.”

We talked about how God has a plan for us and He already knows what we are suppose to be.  He doesn’t want us to be like everyone else ~ we are perfect just the way God made us!

Craft

We put together this cute letter ‘c’ craft and made it look like a chameleon {of course!!}.

Math

First Aiden arranged Size Sort Chameleons on a stick, from biggest to smallest, and we worked on ordinal numbers {1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc..}.

Aiden practiced counting 0 to 10 by feeding The Hungry Chameleon flies.  We didn’t use the flies from the printout ~ we used flies made out of felt instead {we also used the flies later in the game below}. 

Science

We printed off colored chameleons and Aiden matched the colored chameleons to the correct color word cards.

Art

We printed off this pattern for a chameleon. Aiden colored the chameleon and then poured an entire load of glue onto the picture along with a lot of glitter.

Snack

For snack we had mixed-up frozen yogurt.  We used two flavors of yogurt and swirled them together. We put the yogurt into a paper cup, added a popsicle stick to freeze in the middle and then put them in the freezer until they were ready to pop out and eat!

Games

We talked about how chameleons use their sticky tongues to catch flies.  To demonstrate this I added Velcro to the end of a party blower so Aiden could catch and “eat” flies made out of felt.

Puzzles

Aiden needed some help with the Chameleon Puzzle, but enjoyed putting the last pieces together.

 

Song

Do You Have Green Skin?

{sung to tune: “Do Your Ears Hang Low”}

Do you have green skin?

Can you shed the skin you’re in?

Can you change the color, too?

Turn from green to red to blue?

Do you live among the trees?

Blending in with sticks and leaves?

Do you have green skin?

For more fun ideas and printables to go along with the The Mixed-up Chameleon, you can check out this post on my blog.

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