Bears
The weather is getting colder and with that I like to do story times about animals that hibernate. This week we tackled Bears. We enjoyed the following books:
- Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
- Baby Bear Discovers the World by Marion Dane Bauer
My story time crowd seems to no longer be dominated by one year olds, so I have been slowly picking longer books to see how attention spans hold up. Baby Bear Discovers the World is by far the longest book that I have tried in a while and it was quite successful (mainly because it contained real pictures of bears). I had also planned to read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle but I was nearing my 30 minutes at the end of the second book.
I would love to start adding themed rhymes and flannel boards back to this story time since my audience has grown up and would be more likely to enjoying them instead of trying to pull them apart. Here is a page of Bear Rhymes and Songs that I put together but did not get to at this story time.
For our craft children were able to make their very own Elmer-like elephants!
Bear Cave Craft
The above image came from Storytime Katie- where here post gave me the idea from Pinterest. I had a child that wanted the example that I made so I couldn't get a picture today of mine. I used a different sleepy bear that can be seen below.
Materials:
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Bear cutout (Click Here)
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tissue paper
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leaf
stickers
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paper
plates
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glue
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crayons
Directions:
o Have children color their bear.
o Children can then glue tissue paper and leaves onto their plate.
o Glue the bear onto the plate last.
Here is a list of other bear picture books that you might enjoy!
- Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle
- Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff
- Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
- Grizzly Bears by Gail Gibbons
