Welcome to week three of the Read. Explore. Learn Summer Reading Challenge- July Edition! 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 ways you have learned with and explored books.
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It has been really hot here in South Carolina. We have spent a lot of time in the house playing and reading this week.
The books I selected to share this week are about pretend play. Jdaniel has been pretend playing for awhile. He has a shelf in the pantry for his grocery store. The couch cushions have been used to make forts, an ambulance, a consignment sale area, library shelves and more.
When I came across No More Cookies by Paeony Lewis and Lola Loves Stories by Anna McQuinn, the main characters reminded me of my little pretender.
No More Cookies is about a little girl and her stuffer monkey who inhale a tin of cookies. Mom tell Florence and Arnold that there will be no more cookies for the week. Florence is shocked. She loves cookies. All she will really need is one more.
Florence and Arnold devise plans to get cookies from Mom.
First they dress up as tooth fairies that need a cookie before they fly home after a night of teeth collecting. Mom gives them apples instead. Which isn’t fair!
Then they dress up as witches and threaten to turn Mom into a frog. Mom loves the idea. Frogs don’t have to do laundry.
Arnold is dressed as a patient who has been in an accident and Florence dresses as a nurse. Mom gives Arnold a bandage.
Finally Florence and Arnold dress up as chefs. Mom still says, “No cookies.” She does suggest making chocolate covered bananas with sprinkles.
Florence decides that they are better than cookies.
Lola Loves Stories is a wonderful tale of a little girl who totally gets into the books she gets at the library to read with her dad.
They read a book about princesses and the next day she dresses as a princess.
Then she and her mom read a book about a journey and the next day Lola pretends to fly her stuffed animals to a foreign land.
She reads a story about friends and the next day she has her friend Ben over for tea.
The story continues with Lola pretending to be a farmer, a tiger, a builder, the owner of magic shoes and Max from Where the Wild Things Are.
I love the imaginations that both Lola and Florence have. They find ways to pretend to be such a wide array of things.
What did we do?
Kids’ Meal Toy Animal Game
JDaniel got this toy in a kids’s meal over the weekend. When you push the button the name of an animal will appear in the window. JDaniel can’t read, but he can tell us the first letter on the animal when it is his turn to select an animal for us to act out.
We played this game in the car on the way back from my mother in laws in Georgia. It was such fun to make noises and flap our arms around as we pretended to be the animals.
JDaniel loves to go through the craft junk drawers and search for treasures. We used some of the treasures to dress up a robot.
The activities you do with your son are inspiring! I need to start putting more time and effort into the time I spend with my son.
Always a fun time in your house. I think I might send my kids there for a vacation 😉
Pretend play is always fun! We love costumes here. It’s a little ridiculous – sometimes I’ll have a viking and a pirate and a construction crew foreman all walking around in my living room…
Stumbled upon your post thru Twitter….
As an author/illustrator (self-published) I love to see what teacher’s ‘do’ with my books. The link that I have added is truly of a heroic response from a kindergarten to my book entitled
“Red, White and Blue” which was inspired by 911.
I’m new to this whole linky party concept. I could get your badge onto my post, but it doesn’t show the other links. Have I copied the wrong code?? All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Now I want to get more familiar with your blog!!
I can’t wait until my boy can pretend play! I love the decorating the robot out of craft scraps!
Fun…although that toy would probably drive me crazy haha end up you know where. Love his robot!
Love this! My kids (2 and 5) are both really into pretend, too! Thanks for the fun linky! 😉
What good ideas you have! This is a great blog for young mothers. Thanks for visiting me.
I love your dress up a robot idea—perfect for my twin girls, especially considering I’ve got drawers full of bits and scraps of scrapbooking materials that they would love to cut and paste with!
Those sound like great books. My boys love to play dress up… especially my youngest!
We have a ton of plastic containers for art stuff. My MIL buys a zillion tiny ones. I’d rather have 1 bigger one as that would be easier to keep up with.
This is a great link up. I don’t have anything right now to contribute, but I’ll be back. 🙂
I love the cookie story! Might have to find that for Audrey.
Double like the Robot dress up!
Lovely linkup ….loved going thru all the ideas!!! Added mine too .
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Ah! Children have such wonderful imaginations. I can’t wait til we are grandparents (I say that all the time :o) And to have them over, read stories with, play and pretend with :o)
Blessings & Aloha!
That is so wonderful that JD is the 4th to carry on a wonderful name :o)
…catching up with wonderful blog reading! Thank you for stopping by!
We have to read these 2 books. Love your pretend robot!