Make-it Topic: Books

Imaginative:

• Set up a library for the children to be the librarians 
• Set up a book store 
• Choose a favourite fairy tale i.e. Three bears, set out the material to act out the book 
• Place a “bed” for bedtime stories

Language:

• Read “I love my little story book” by Anita Jeram 
• Set out a variety of different books for the children to read 
• Place a book worm on the wall for each circle write the name of the book you read 
• Have the children share their favourite story book

Art:

• Make book ends using milk cartons, stickers, and paints 
• Have the children make their own book mark 
• Place out magazines and construction paper allow the children to cut out pictures to make their own story (you can write the story they tell) 
• Get book report covers allow the children to color them cover a book 
• Make books using “environmental prints” (cereal boxes)

Water/Sand:

• Plastic books with characters in the water table 
• Place books about water beside the water table 
• Place out books about sand by the sand table add trucks to it

 Gross Motor:

• Read a Yoga for children book have the children do the poses 
• Make a city treasure hunt book for the children go for a walk following the book 
• Read “Run away bunny” have the children act out the running

Science/Curiosity:

• Make paper one day 
• Have color cards for mixing colors 
• Place out a type writer for the children to use

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Place out book lacers 
• Place out mini books for counting 
• Place out the cheerio books with some cheerio’s for the children to complete the pictures 
• Place out I Spy books

Music:

• Place out music books such as five little monkeys, five green and speckled frogs 
• Place out simple musical score books or sheets

Quiet:

• Place out flannel board stories 
• Add material books for reading

Cooking:

• Painted toast story 
• Food coloring, milk, bread 
• Allow the children to create a story on their bread toast it and watch the colors come alive 
• Make recipe cards using pictures to follow 
• Use the book “Stone Soup” for a cooking day

Field Trips:

• Visit the local library 
• Take a trip to the local Chapters book store