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Mouse Theme Picture Books
Activities
Frederick & Leo Lionni's Mice
Children's
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Mouse theme book activities for > Chrysanthemum
| Frederick and Leo
Lionni's Mice Characters | Mouse Count |
Mouse
Paint | The Lion and
Mouse
Each book is complemented with printable Mouse
Activities and Crafts and related educational materials and lesson plans. |
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materials needed for the activities: printer for printable
crafts, paper and/or construction paper, glue stick, crayons / markers /
paints, paint brushes, scissors, construction paper. |
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Frederick
- Author and Illustrator: Leo Lionni
Frederick seems to be bit distracted to his mice family, since he
doesn't seem interested in collecting food and preparing for
winter. Frederick has his own special way of making a big
contribution as he "daydreams" and "collects" and
prepares in an imaginative way what will warm the hearts of all his mice
family during the cold and long winter ahead.
Skills: Encourage the imagination and creativity. Visual
arts: the collage technique
Materials: paper, printable, printable mouse craft template,
or mouse coloring page, glue, scissors, crayons /markers/ paints
Activities > Visual Arts & Art Appreciation > Collage
Technique
Leo Lionni was a master of the collage art technique represented in
children's picture books. Take a close look at many of his illustrations
as they collages of simple shapes.
- Discuss what is a collage
and the inventor of this art technique, Picasso.
- Select and print a simple shapes printable
mouse craft (coloring format only)
- Children will color or paint each template piece with different hues
and colors of their choice.
- The decorated craft templates are cut out, pasted and
assembled in the collage technique over a piece of color construction
paper.
- Encourage children to use the decorated templates to create
their own unique mouse collage illustration, not necessarily as
the illustration on the template.
- Children ages 4+ and older can add other elements to their
collage, as they are inspired by a selection of Leo Lionni's books.
Visit and explore inside two great book collections of the imaginative
and unforgettable Leo Lionni's mice characters: collection
#1, collection
#2 |
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