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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
The book Moonlight the Halloween Cat by Cynthia Rylant follow a black cat on her evening walk. Along the way she sees all kinds of things that cause her to love Halloween.
Moonlight loves smiles on pumpkins, scarecrows straw laps, children in costumes, and big yellow moons. She loves watch owls and raccoons during there evening travels. She loves houses lit by pumpkin’s inner light when people have gone to bed. She loves the stars that shine and the candy dropped at the door of her house.
Cynthia Rylant’s words and Melissa Sweet’s pictures paint a wonderful picture of the joys of Halloween and none of its freights.
What did we do?
I Spy Through a Cat’s Eyes
I glued a cat’s head to a file folder and cut out its eyes. Then I placed a variety of pictures inside the folder. JDaniel had to guess what each picture was based on the glimpses of the picture he saw through the cat’s eyes.
Paper Plate Cat
We used an old black paper plate to create Moonlight the cat.
This post is linked to Feed Me Books Friday, Link and Learn, We Play and It’s Playtime .
The guessing game is very creative. It makes them think a little harder. I like that idea.
I love these! Fun idea.
I had a Halloween craft brainstorm last night – now if only I can find the time to do it – we’ve just been crazy busy this week!
I may steal this for my Halloween class!
Cute!! Love the tie in with the book 🙂
You’re quite creative! I like “spy through the cat’s eyes”.
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“I spy though cat’s eyes” is a fun game. So clever! Can be personalized for word game too!
I like your guessing game – very clever!
Have you read “I Spy With My Little Eye” by Edward Gibbs. The book has eye hole cut-outs. Would also go along with your activity. Cute idea, by the way.
What a fun activity! I know my boys would be so excited about this and I’m sure they would be finding things to put behind the cat to try to stump me too. 🙂 I love coming to see your ideas every week. I’ve been keeping a list of the books you use.
Spying through the cat’s eyes is so fun and clever. Love that folder idea!
You always have such great ideas. I like your I spy game. I’ve never done that with my kids like that.
Cute guessing game! Great idea
How fun! I need to start doing crafts with Dawson that have to do with the books we read. I’ll be linking up soon! 🙂
Your crafts this week are really fun!
I love Cynthia Rylant but I haven’t read that book. Also, what a great I spy game. We are definitely doing this.
Those are great crafts – fun!
I love the “I Spy through a Cat’s Eyes” activity! I stumbled your post and pinned it to my Halloween Pinterest board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-halloween-activities/
I love the guessing game! So cute.
Paper plates are so versatile for children’s craft activities. I love what you’ve done with making the cats…. look fantastic! And super easy for the kids.
This would make a great Halloween costume. Thank you for sharing.