A Mommys Adventures does a fun blog carnival. Read your child a story then do art to accompany the story.
This week we read Mouse Shapes. What a fun book!
While reading Mouse Shapes, my boys & I used our foam blocks to illustrate the pictures in the book. We made our own Mouse Shape sculptures!
House Tree
Wagon & book
Fish
The Cat
The Mice
The cheese
Then they built their own sculptures!
A lovely activity to match the book! The foam blocks look really great.
I love how you had them build it with blocks. What a great idea.
I have yet to find the Mouse Shapes book at my library.
This is not only a story stretcher, but a good exercise of geometry, and reasoning skills. I love the block mice – so cute!
I really like how you built all the shapes out of blocks even though they look a little different in the book. It’s a great read by the way, and I am going to bring it back from the library shortly for more math activities with my daughter.
Hi Nicole,
I have been following your blog for a while and it is such an encouragement to me to find so many Christian mom’s online! I love seeing the creative things you do with your kids. I had a question concerning cloth diapers, but when I emailed you, it came back and said it was not able to deliver it. So,I’m posting a comment that has absolutely nothing to do with the post it’s connected with….sorry about that 🙂
I had a question regarding cloth diapers. My husband and I are seriously considering making the switch, and I was wondering what your diaper of choice and brand is. My daughter is 7 mths and a chunk! She is average height and has a thick waist and thighs. Cost is and isn’t an issue. I want to be as thrifty as possible,but yet want to get a good quality diaper that will last, as we want to have more children.
If you have time to reply I would really appreciate it. I do not know many families using cloth, so it is hard to get opinions.
Thanks so much!
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I love the idea of using the foam blocks. When I did this activity and book with my girls I cut out all the shapes. Your way is much easier!
Annette – I e-mailed you privately. Let me know if you have any questions, I would be happy to help you get started on a cloth diaper journey! 🙂
Creative block play. Looks like fun and reminds me of a playful patterns game own.
What a fun activity to go along with the book!
We haven’t had this book yet. But we love Mouse Paint so will will have to get this one!
Love the mice you guys made with blocks! They look so cute!!
Math and Mice- can’t get any better than that!
I LOVE this!!! I’ll have to link up to the carnival sometime. I’m your newest follower! Hope you’ll come by and check out Fishful Thinking Thursday – it’s all about these great activities from fishfulthinking.com for parents and teachers. I bet you’d love it!
Hi There! Just Stopping by to say Happy Friday Follow! I already follow!
Thanks!
Bridgette Groschen
The Groschen Goblins
Stopping by from Friday Follow & am following you now. We homeschool too, and I’m really excited to read more of your blog 🙂
OH my goodness, I love these. The mice are so cute :)!!!
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