Spring Time – Baby Chick Time
Make a Book “What is your favorite thing about spring ___________? “
Baby Chick Book
Materials:
Children’s books about spring
Enlarged baby chick pattern
Oak tag or heavy poster board
Glue stick
Scissors
Colored markers and crayons or water colors
Laminator
8 1/2” x 11” paper – soft pastels if available or white
Hole punch and yarn
What to do:
• Read several books about spring, and talk about the first signs of spring. Make a book about spring.
• Draw or glue an enlarged baby chick patter on two pieces of poster board (about 10” x 12”).
• Cut around the shape which will then become the front and back covers.
• Also cut plan paper into the baby chick shapes for use as the book pages.
• With markers, or paint color the chick yellow and the beak and feet orange
• Laminate for durability, and cut out close to the edge of the chick piece.
• Write the follow sentence on small sentence strips: “My favorite thing about spring is _______”
• Each day let your child/children take a strip and fill in the blank.
• Then let them choose one of the paper chicks to glue the sentence strip at the bottom of the page.
• Using crayons they can then illustrate their sentence at the top of the page.
• Work on this project over several days to see the different spring images they create
• Read a different springtime book so they have lots of ideas to choose from.
• When you have enough pages completed help your child assemble the finished pages, and bind them between the covers using a hole punch and yarn.
This fun project can be used for any season – image a pumpkin shaped book, or a turkey shaped book, or even a birthday cake shaped book! Always start this project by gathering several books about the season or event to read together.
Related books:
Good Morning, Chick
Bright pictures and fun animal sounds make this a delightful book for young children.
The Baby Chicks Are Singing / Los Pollitos Dicen
This song about spring is perfect for bilingual children just learning to read – the poem/song words are both in English and Spanish.
Pip! Zip! Hatch! Love!: A Complete Kid's Guide To Keeping Chickens
A book for young children who want to learn how to keep chickens.
Note: These books about spring are from my personal library.