Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
A Wish to be a Christmas Tree is a wonderful book about a tree that finds out he has a purpose all year long. What fun it is to be so helpful to others all during the year and not just look pretty at Christmas time.
What did we do?
Thank You Notes Using Hand Tracings
I trace JDaniel’s hand in a thank you note as his signature. I was reading about reusing wrapping paper on Red Ted’s Art Blog to make thank you notes. It gave me the idea to trace JDaniel’s hands onto wrapping paper and add the hand cutouts to the thank you notes I need to send to relatives to thank them for his gifts.
Christmas Card Puzzles
I love reusing Christmas cards. Last year we created a picture walking book using some of the cards. We would look through the cards and talk about what we saw in each picture. This year found a great post on Nurture Store called Christmas Card Games. It talked about making puzzles with Christmas cards. I just cut a few of the cards to make puzzles. JDaniel really enjoyed them.
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I love all these tips! Wow, what great ideas!
Hope you have a wonderful New Year! 🙂
Those are awesome tips!
Happy New Year!
This is really cool. I am from South Carolina too but am in Wisconsin now. I love the handprints for thank you cards, but my kids are teens and beyond now. I’ll past it on for my grandkids though. Blessings, Amy
Great ideas!! On Christmas present Bella got was a cookbook/scrapbook. We will cook together, making simple recipes she can actually help with and there are spots to attach your cooking photos!! I love to cook and she loves to help, so we’re both really excited about doing this together!!!
Ah how cute, I love your handprint cards!! Perfect thank yous and perfect recycling! Thank you for the mention too 😉
Wishing you a very Happy New Year!
Maggy
We always make puzzles with the Christmas cards, too!
What cute thank you notes! Awesome idea.
What a great idea to make the thank you cards from wrapping paper! Love it! We have used old cards to make ornaments the following year. I like the whole idea of reusing stuff. Happy New Years!
I love crafts that involve stuff I already have around the house! We also read that book, my daughter liked all of the birds 🙂
I ♥ the Thank You Hand Print idea!
The Christmas Card Puzzles are Neato too 🙂
Thanks for Sharing!
I love the Christmas card puzzle idea! Happy New Year!
That sounds like such a cute book!
This is a great post. What neat ideas and I love linking art and literature. Awesome!
I love the hand cut outs in the thank you card idea. We are working on thank yous for birthday and Christmas presents this week. Happy New Year! :o)
I love the thank you notes you made
Cute Thank you cards.
I wish I was just a little bit as crafty as you are! Love the ideas 🙂
Oh, I LOVE those thank yous!! So cute!
One of my resolutions was to MAKE sure I read a book each night to the boys.
LOVE the thank you Cards!
Love the card puzzle idea!