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This week we read the book Don’t Worry Douglas! is given a new knit hat by his dad and he is asked to be careful with it. Douglas barely makes it out of the house when his hat snags on a tree and is destroyed. His hat is unraveled and he doesn’t want to tell his dad. David Melling’s Douglas is a lot like a lot of children who are afraid to tell their parents when they have done things wrong.
Douglas tries to seek advice on how to fix his hat from his friends. Most of them would just like the yarn for their homes but, they do try and tell him to talk to his dad.
In the end, Douglas does talk to his dad and his dad does understand. He does remind Douglas to be careful with the replacement hat he gives him right off his head.
Of course, he reminded him of that with the first hat too.
I love the reminders in this book to listen and be willing to share when mistakes happen. JDaniel and I talked about both of these concepts after reading the book.
What did we do?
Craft a Bear and a Mom Lesson
This craft was more about me listening than JDaniel painting his Don’t Worry Douglas! bear.
I cut out a bear out of a brown paper grocery bag and set out brown paint with a sponge to paint it.
JDaniel told me that he didn’t want Douglas to be brown. He wanted him to be blue, green, and black.
I thought about forcing him to paint him brown so that I could have a brown bear for this post and decided that it wasn’t that important. What was important was to listen to what he wanted to do!
When he had finished painting, I said it was time to add eyes, a nose, and a mouth. JDaniel declared the project as done. I said that it would be fine with me.
When he left the room, I seriously thought about adding facial features to the bear. Then I thought about what I would be saying to him about listening. If I had added facial features I might have been telling him that it wasn’t okay and that I had to sneak in a face to have it be right. That is not a lesson I want him to learn.
Sometimes crafts may need to be finished the way I see them. This craft did not have to be that way.
If you like this bear craft, here are some more bear activities.
Printable Bear About Colors Activities
