Happy Monday!
Are you all back to school? Many of my readers are from the US and it is my understanding that school starts a lot earlier for them. We start back the second week of September!
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Anyway, as promised in my post last week I told you that I would show you the Brown Bear work that both of my girls love!
Little Belle (24 months) LOVES to match the felt animals to the correct pages in the book. I’m not sure if it is the matching concept or the animals that she loves more! Remember the matching animals to their stripes work I posted about a while back. Belle loves to do that work now too!
Snow White (4.5 yrs old) loves to use this as a work. She sometimes looks through the book placing the animals on the mat as she “tells” the story. Other times she places all the felt animals in order and then uses the book to self check her work. She retells the story as she does it! This is a great work for memory and I feel that the retelling of the story helps her confidence level!
Right now we have this on a tray as a work, but the other books are in the library display. She has already asked me when we can make felt sets for all the Eric Carle Books…we’ll see about that 
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Such a cute idea! This is such a great book. We just did something similar with story stones which I'm sure your girls would love. I bet Snow White could make her own story stones for the other books and it's way easier than trying to make the characters out of felt!!
http://montessoribeginnings.blogspot.com/2010/08/story-stones-and-august-nature-table.html
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How did you find patterns for your felt animals? I'm not creative at all so for me to cut them out by hand and apply the lines and decor would be horrible!! LOL
What a fantastic idea! My son is autistic (4 yrs old) and like most ASD kids, has trouble with recall, with telling a story without just repeating the words verbatim. He loves Brown Bear and I think this would be a great activity for him. Thanks so much
Montessori Beginnings, Yes, I think the story stones would be a hit in our home too! I actually have that post of yours on my list of things to do on a rainy day!
Christa,
You can find some patterns here http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm
I was given the set that I have
Jody
Amanda,
I am glad you find this activity helpful! That is what makes writing this blog worth it – helping and encouraging and giving ideas to support other moms!
I hope you let me know how your little one does with this activity!
Have a great day!
Wow, you made these? I LOVE this idea! Off to think of some other stories we can do this with…
Did you use a template?
Steph, as I told Christa, I got these given to me, but I'm sure you could use this link http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm as a template!
I hope to make some for other books as well!
Have a great day!
Alex,
These books sure are great aren't they!?!
We just bought 2 more at Costco yesterday!
Great activity!! "Brown Bear…" is one of my favorite stories. I can see why your girls with the felt set would make it one of their favorites too. Gotta get a felt set. Thank you for sharing!
We are big Eric Carle fans in this house and this is right up the kids alley. I especially love how it works for the younger and older without more work on my part
Thanks for such a fantastic idea!
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Your felt creations are lovely! Another good idea to go with that book!