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Mouse Theme Picture Books:
Mouse Paint Activities
Children's
Picture Books Activities > Mouse theme
Book activities for > Chrysanthemum
| Frederick and Leo
Lionni's Mice Characters | Mouse Count | Mouse
Paint | The
Lion and the Mouse Fable
Each book is complemented with printable mouse
activities and crafts and other educational materials and
lesson plans. |
| Basic
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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Mouse
Paint - Author: Ellen Stoll
Walsh
Level: Baby-Preschool
Available in Spanish: Pinta
ratones
Cute and curious white mice explore with paint to discover new colors by
mixing primary colors and make secondry colors. They are also careful
and clever to outsmart the cat.
Skills: Color recognition, science > color mixing: how to mix primary
colors to obtain secondary colors. Learn color words.
Materials and Preparation:
* Select and print black and white mouse
craft template, or coloring
page for the children and gather materials listed in the lesson
plan.
* Print color mixing activity activity
worksheet for the children.
Optional Story time display materials:
Mouse Color Cards:
Print the Mouse Paint Color Cards Page
1 | Page
2 to display on a flannel board as you read the
story.
Print and display the color
mixing poster.
Activities:
- Read the story and use mouse color flash cards to help present the
colors in the sequence in which they appear in
the book. For use with a felt board, glue a piece of sandpaper to
the back of each card.
- Present color
mixing activity #2.
- Distribute a black & white mouse craft template.
- Divide the children into three color teams (orange, green and
purple). Each team will mix colors and paint the mouse craft templates or coloring page
with their team color.
- Cut out and assemble mouse craft.
- Read Mouse Paint one more time and children will hold
their mouse craft and
stand up when their secondary color is mentioned in the story.
Color words: Kindergarten - Grade 1 Practice writing color
words with these worksheets
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