daanorthern.blogg.se - The mitten story by jan brett

Get a white sheet and lay it on the floor, folded in half this is our white mitten.There are many ways to do this so be creative, but I’ll share with you how we do it. Another fun activity is to actually act it out with your own bodies.

It’s fun to get or make a white mitten or glove that they can place their puppets into. They are fun to make into puppets that your children can then use to act out the story.

This is such a fun story in and of itself! But there is so much more you can do-first to stretch the learning, and also to have fun! On Brett’s personal website are printables of each character in the story that you can use.

When Nicki drops one of his snow-white mittens in the snow, he doesn’t even notice! It’s not long before some woodland creatures discover it and crawl inside to get warm, each one getting progressively bigger.

One of my children’s favorites is The Mitten. Her pictures are amazing, and I love that each picture is framed with another picture that either tells another story or gives clues to what is going to happen next (great for predicting, which is an important reading skill for children to learn).