We borrowed Mrs Wishy Washy from the library this week. I had ordered it and had to wait for it to come in from another library. When we went to collect it, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a "big book". We had loads of fun reading it, and the size of it was a bit of a novelty for R. The book inspired some of our activities this week.
I put out some dark brown playdough (for mud) and the animals from the book; a pig, a duck and a cow. R loved putting them into the playdough. We talked about the animals 'getting dirty' like in the story.
After playing with the animals in the playdough, I suggested to R that we give them a bath. He was all for this, because he absolutely loves water play. I set out a tub of water with bubbles in it. I also gave him a nail brush and a pig, cow and duck.
He scrubbed the animals clean with the nail brush.
We also did a craft for each of the animals in the book. R collaged splotches onto the cow.
He fingerpainted pink paint onto a pig.
Finally, he collaged feathers onto a duck after decorating it with a yellow Do-A-Dot marker.
We really had a lot of learning opportunities this week from one simple book.
