We read the following books that relate to Earth Day this week:
My Forever Dress by Harriet Ziefert is a wonderful book about a little girl whose grandmother reuses fabric from her favorite dress to make new clothing for her. In the end, she has to hand down the final dress to a cousin.
Barn Savers by Linda Oatman High is a great book about a father and his son who salvage wood and many other elements of old barns. This book paints great word pictures of what is going on while they work on one particular barn during the day. JDaniel loves this book.
Recycle Every Day by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace is another great book. It takes a little bunny through a week on watching how her family recycles. The little bunny has to decide what family does that she wants to illustrate for a poster contest at school.
The craft we did was a collage. (Yes, we did a collage last week too.) JDaniel was given triangles and squares from old wrapping paper to create his collage. It was fun to use the old paper in the project.
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The artwork on My Forever Dress looks gorgeous! Thanks for the recommendation.
My Forever Dress looks likes it has a lot of potential for a project with Grandma!
Such a wonderful way to do Earth Day. Nice post…thank you for your visit and comments about my “N” post…peace and blessings…
Great choices! Thanks so much for your visit and lovely comments.
Great Project:)
The forever dress is a book I think I would really like to add to the library!
I like that forever dress one. I admire this that you did. I didn’t do anything for earth day at all. I mean anything specific with my kids except read to them about how to protect the environment etc.
I’ll have to get The Forever Dress…it sounds like something we’d love. Thanks for the recommendation. Had a great earth day, too!
Great books! I’ll have to find The Forever Dress. I’d love to read it to my daughter!
My daughter likes My Forever Dress, too. Collages are always fun!
Good selection of books. The collage looks fun, nice way to teach shapes!
That first book sounds wonderful!!!
What cute books! I like the first two especially.
If my kids had their way they’d do collages almost every day, besides they’re fun, I still love to do them.