Eric Carle Craft

Description: The students started by listening to the book Brown Bear by Eric Carle. We then talked about primary colors: blue, yellow, and red, secondary colors: green, purple, and orange, and nouns: a person, place, or thing. Next, we took our 8.5*11 white piece of paper and had to choose one primary color to use. We had to draw at least eight things that were the primary color we choose. For example, I choose blue so, I drew blueberries, water,  a rain drop, etc. Then we had to choose a second primary color and write one more noun than the number of nouns that we drew, so if we drew eight, we had to write nine. For my second color, I choose red and some of the things I wrote were: cherries, strawberries, a stop sign, lipstick, etc. Next, we had to get in line and pick a baggy that had supplies with a secondary color on it along with an egg carton that was already cut and glued together for us. I picked the purple bear. We then had to color the whole egg carton the color that our baggy said with marker. Once we got it all covered in marker, we could start glueing on the eyes, paws, and ears. We could add a mouth and nose if we wanted to. Then we had to write on our notecard, "I see a purple bear staring at me." This would vary to which color and type of animal you had. Lastly, we glued our notecard and animal onto our white piece of paper that had our nouns on it.

Extension Activity: For an extension activity, I would connect it to science and have them do some research on the animal that they made. Instead of the sheet with the nouns being the backdrop for the animal, I would have them find some facts about their animal and write them on their piece of paper and we would use that. I would then have them share with the class three facts about their animals that they found most interesting.