This week for our stART project, we read Today is Monday by Eric Carle. Ryleigh and I really like the bright colors throughout the story...I also like it because of the repetition of the days of the week...anyway...toward the end of the "story" there is a monkey who has got an interesting pattern about him...so I had the girls try and duplicate that look. We used toothpicks to scratch lines in a foam circle.... then we painted the circles and put them face down on the paper...then removed them...in short...we made stamps :) The pattern did transfer nicely to the paper and if you use your imagination... it resembles the look of the monkey in the book...the pattern...not the shape... and 3 stars for you if you have followed anything that I have written above...off to get some coffee...
Scratching the pattern into the foam
Painting the foam...
Peeling the foam off the paper... I did not get a close up of the finished project...
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Your post was not hard to follow at all (maybe because I'm in an equally coffee depleted state) - and what a excellent art exercise, you came up with!
very cute! :)
Umm... OK. LOL. We like this book too - great for learning days of the week.
I've never seen this Eric Carle book--thanks for sharing it.
Cute project with your little one!
LOL: and 3 stars for you if you have followed anything that I have written above...off to get some coffee...
Oh, I've been searching for some good days of the week stories. I don't know about this one so thank you for posting it. I'll definitely pick one up!
I don't think I've seen that book yet! I'll have to look for it next time we're at the library!
Looks like she had fun with that activity!
What a cute craft! I love Eric Carle books :-)
My daughter enjoys marking days off her calendar. Bet she'd like a story that discusses the days of the week.
We love this song, it is on one of Emily's Elephant Show DVD's. I want to try making prints with Emily, I will have to try this. To bad I missed TOTSchool on this day :0)
Thanks for linking up!!
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