Brown Bear, Brown Bear & The Very Busy Spider

   

For our arts and crafts this week, we centered them around a couple of Eric Carle books. We chose 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?' and 'The Very Busy Spider'. We own and have read these books time and time again. My children love to hear them. The crafts we went with were very simple and easy to do (with very little set up).

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

For this first craft, we were trying to make a bear that looked like the one from the book. I had J paint a piece of white card stock completely brown. I liked the fact that you could still see the brush marks, as this is how the pictures are from the book. Then, I made a simple bear template (free hand) and cut it out. We glued it onto construction paper and TA-DA!! A bear that does a very good job of mimicking the one from the book.

The next craft we did for this book was a simple paper plate bear. Easy peasy! Paint a paper plate brown, add a couple of ears, and draw on a face.

  

The Very Busy Spider

We only did one craft with this book. And it, like the others, was very easy. I had J draw a spider web on her piece of black construction paper with a pencil. I drew little E's. Then we took glue and traced our web. And here's comes the messy part- cover it with glitter. Yes, I vacuumed up glitter for days, especially from the 2 year old. But they turned out cute and the kids loved their sparkly webs!

 

Enjoy!!