If You're a Monster and You Know It ~ Art Activity

If You're A Monster And You Know It

by Rebecca Emberley & Ed Emberley

Book Summary: Children will stomp their paws, twitch their tails, snort and growl, and wiggle and wriggle along with this bright and bold picture book twist on "If You're Happy and You Know It."

My son loved the silly monsters in this book. Multiple eyes, horns, crazy teeth...he thought they were all so fun. We decided to see if we could make our own silly monsters and we ended up with some of my favorite art he's ever produced.

Materials:

• Paper
• Paint
• Scissors
• Glue
• Collage Materials (We used our Collage Box.)

   Before you can decorate your monster, you need to make some "Splat Art". Place a few drops of paint in the middle of your paper. (Not too much! Trust me, a little goes a long way!)

Fold your paper in half and press the paint around. It works best if you push the paint toward the edge of the paper (opposite of the fold), instead of up and down the fold.

Peel it open and be surprised at your blob shape.

Repeat. Your tot WILL want to repeat this a few times. Let them dry. (This is the hard part.)

When your splat art is dry, get out your Collage Box and decorate them to look like monsters.

 

 

 

We worked all afternoon and made an entire collection. We used a little bit of teamwork when it came to specific things, like monster hands and the pair of glasses he wanted for "Green Monster" to wear. He was so pleased with his silly monsters! 

 

 

 

 

Which monster do you like best? I'm having a hard time deciding!

 

Other Monster Books:

Go Away, Big Green Monster!
There Was An Old Monster!
Glad Monster, Sad Monster
Bye-Bye, Big Bad Bullybug!
Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli
Tickle Monster

I'll be back next Thursday to share more activities to go with our Monster books!

Roll and Color Number Game ~ Little Hands-on ABC’s and 123’s

 

When Emily was learning her numbers she really enjoyed doing color by number pages.  When I found roll and color pages I really liked the idea of them because she was still able to be creative and pick the colors she wanted to use, while practicing number recognition.  Since we love games I turned her roll and color pages into a fun learning game that we both had a great time playing. This roll and color number game was a great way to practice counting and numeral recognition.

Here is how we played our roll and color game:

• I printed a Frog Roll and Color coloring page for Emily and one for myself.

• Emily rolled the die, counted the dots and then found that numeral on her coloring page.  Then she colored that section in.  We are always using our foam dot dice for learning activities.  I purchased ours at the dollar store, but you can also find them online.

• Next, it was my turn (I had fun coloring too, if you like to color you will love this game!!).

• If you roll a number that you have already colored you miss your turn

• The winner is the first to finish coloring all the numbered spots on the coloring page.

You can find more Roll and Color printable pages at Making Learning Fun.  You can also make your own by adding numbers to coloring book pages and then making a copy of them.

Little Hands-on ABC’s and 123’s is a bi-monthly feature that focuses on practical and simple ideas that you can do at home to help your tot develop their letter and number skills.

Mommy Made Printables ~ Early Concepts

Our theme here on Totally Tots for the month of October will be Early Concepts ~ ABCs, 123s, Shapes & Colors.  In preparation for the month ahead, here are a few printable items.  Stay tuned for more ideas coming in November!

This will just be a sampling of what our Totally Tots team members have to offer online for free, you can browse around each site to see even more!

Click on the images to be taken to the webpage/blog post featuring the printable idea.

ABCs

 

 

   

 

 

123s

 

 

Shapes

 

 

Colors

 

  

 

Do you have any early concept printables YOU have created {and share}? If so, leave a link to your blog post in the comments below!