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!
ReplyDeletevery cute! :)
ReplyDeleteUmm... OK. LOL. We like this book too - great for learning days of the week.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen this Eric Carle book--thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteCute 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...
ReplyDeleteOh, 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!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've seen that book yet! I'll have to look for it next time we're at the library!
ReplyDeleteLooks like she had fun with that activity!
What a cute craft! I love Eric Carle books :-)
ReplyDeleteMy daughter enjoys marking days off her calendar. Bet she'd like a story that discusses the days of the week.
ReplyDeleteWe 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)
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up!!