The Educators' Spin On It: Activities for Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Monday, November 5, 2012

Activities for Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

It's the beginning of OWL WEEK at The Educators' Spin On It! Do you have a Little Hoot in your life? We read the book The Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal for our Virtual Book Club book this month. It's an adorable book about a little owl who wants to go to bed but his parents make him stay up a little bit longer like all owl do at night. We had fun discovering all the little things that he does to stay awake. When you read it you have to see the owl's adorable expression on their faces that Jen Corace illustrates.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal Virtual Book Club

We decided to make our own Little Hoot together. We gathered our supplies and had a fun time together.

Supplies Needed

Paint

Scrap or Construction Paper

Glue

Scissors

Precious little hands!

Once we gathered our supplies we made several brown hand prints because we planned to make cards for family members. {Sorry no photos we were too busy covered in brown paint, keeping baby wipes close by are a big help when making hand prints.} I precut the Owl body shape and eyes, eyeballs, nose and feet because my 23 month old created this owl. If you're doing this with older kids they can cut out their own shapes. Once the paint dried, which was pretty quick after handing washing we assembled our owls. We talked about the body parts and talked about where they go. She used the glue stick on the back to get them ready to glue. Great for fine motor skills! Once we were done we added the cute little text and gave them as cards to family members. We're working on 21 Days of ContagiousGratitude at our house and this was one way to share our gratitude to our family members.

We're going to be sharing Owl Activities all week long but thought you might want some inspiration. Here are some of our Favorite Owl Activities that have been inspired by Little Hoot.

Owl Crafts and Activities inspired by Little Hoot
Leaf Owl Activity guest post on JDaniel4s Mom
Pine Cone Owls from Rainy Day Mum
Pine Cone Owls from Journey to Excellence
Cupcake Printables from KiKi Company
Making your Own Scenes from Little Hoot from Inspiration Laboratories
Little Hoot Teacher's Guide from Who is Amy

Check out our Guest post on JDaniel4's Mom

Play Time with Little Hoot
Owl T-shirt
Owl Apron
Owl Headband Tutorial
Owl Costume

Owl Snacks
Owl Pizza
Owl Snack from Mommy and Me Book Club
Owl Smores from Living Locurto
Owl Cheese Sandwich from JDaniel4's Mom

Come join the fun all week with The Educators' Spin On It for Owl Week! We hope that we'll inspire you to create your own Owl Activities and come back to share your Owl Themed Posts on Monday, November 12!

Image Created by Mommy and Me Book Club

Amy Krouse Rosenthal Virtual Book Club for October closes in 13 days so get yours linked up now! Since you're here we'd love to invite you to our November Virtual Book Club it's on November 19 featuring Tomie De Paola.