Bringing Your Child's Book to Life Fun Activity & Craft
Reading to your child has many benefits from developing language to growing imagination. We have blogged about bringing your child’s books to life including I Am A Bunny & Skippyjon Jones. We had a request to bring A Cuddle for Little Duck to life and we had fun doing it! We liked A Cuddle for Little Duck because it is a sweet book of the simple joys of everyday living and the importance of cuddles – what’s not to love about that!
What you need:
- A Cuddle for Little Duck book
- Yellow & orange construction paper
- Non Toxic glue
- Googly eyes
- Scissors (adult use only)
- A nature trail, forest preserve, prairie, pond or pet shop if you can’t go outside in nature.
- Open arms for cuddles
What to do:
- Read the book A Cuddle for Little Duck
- Act the scenes: run through the meadow (a prairie, park, empty lot, yard, will work), go to a pond to look at frogs (pet shop will work in a pinch), sit under a tree and tell your child a story (mommy duck tells a story at lunch to baby duck), put on some music and shake your tail feathers like little duck
- Cut a big yellow circle from construction paper for ducks body, a smaller one for head and 2 ovals for wings (teach your child shapes while you do this)
- Cut small triangle from orange construction paper for beak and two bigger triangles for feet
- Glue all the parts together to form a duck
- Glue on to face the beak and googly eyes
- Be sure to give lots of cuddles throughout the day
If there is a children’s book you would like us to bring to life, please let us know by leaving a comment!
cute book. I love bringing books to life with props. Thanks for the idea with this book.
This is such a cute idea, my son would really love this! Will have to rent this book at the library and do this craft together. Very creative!
Love this little book, would love to read it to my baby boy.
I’d like to see you bring to life the book, Goodnight Moon! Great idea! 🙂 I think I can try this idea too!
Cute book and fun idea!
What a sweet idea to go with a cute book.
What a cute idea! And such a fun way to make reading fun for little kids.
I love creating the props and acting out the book. I hadn’t thought of doing this with children’s books, but it looks so fun!
How cute and fun! I think the Very Hungry Caterpillar would be cool 🙂 or Peter Rabbit.
OMG that was soooo cute 🙂 my son would so make me go to the dollar store to make that.
I love that the craft helps the children remember the story!
I love this! Cute idea!
I love this!
I like this idea, I deff want to try this out with the children at my daycare. =)
LOVE it!
Very cute and easy to do with toddlers!
It never dawned on me to create the characters from children’s books. I like the idea a lot! Thanks for sharing!
very cute
As a new grandma, I can’t tell you how helpful this is! I have this book! I would love to see how you can bring “Where The Wild Things Are” to life!! 🙂 Thanks so much for all your ideas!
Making this craft to dramatize the story will provide many opportunities to reread the book which is essential for learning to read.
Very cute! Great idea! Will deff have to try this and it would work with alot of other books also!
Cute idea. I think I need to find a prop for Love You, Forever!
Bringing books to life with props – love it!
Cute!
I would like to see the Llama Llama books or Dr. Suess books come to life! That’s such a cute idea!
What a cute book!
How fun! This would also make a great Easter craft!
What a great idea! I will need to do this with my almost 4 year old! He really enjoys crafts and this is a fun one especially since it’s associated with a book!
I love this post! We do things like this too from time to time! My kids do so love story time! 🙂
LOVE THE CRAFT!
This is such a great idea! Our little guy loves to have books read to him every day and has many favorites. I’m looking forward to thinking of ways to bring them to life.
I love this idea. It’s simple, fun, inexpensive, and cute! Thank you!
I love this idea! My daughter is obsessed with animala and would love to make her own duckie!
Love this idea! Too cute! 🙂
Too cute! Love this idea! 🙂
cute idea… I love reading and want to share that love with my grandchildren
So cute! Will definitely have to try that out!
What a great idea to get my little ones excited about what we’re reading. Love it!!!
that is so cute!
no children,but thanks for the advice
What a great idea! I’ll have to do this with my son!
I love reading to my children! Great moments for us both!!
I love this idea! Reading is a big thing in our house and crafts are always fun!
Thanks for the great idea! My son will love this!!
What a great idea to bring the book to life and make it more real for your child. I could see reading the book, making the craft and then reading the book while cuddling the duck. 🙂
This is such a cute idea!! My little one already loves books, but if we can add a craft it would be even better!!
Im always trying to find new fun things to do with my kids..Never thought to make a book come to life basially. Thanks!
Would love to read this and do the craft with my children!
This looks like fun always looking for new ideas
my one year old granddaughter loves books and i am always looking for new books to read to her and loves to do art projects.
This is such a cute idea! I’m so gonna try this when my little one comes!
very cute.. love the idea
So cute! What a great idea!
This a cute craft to go along with this cute book. I think it is important to extend activities from books to improve children’s understanding of the story and love of books
That is so cute!
How adorable!
Such a cute book would love to read it to my little princess 🙂
This is so cute!!
My boys love the llama, llama books…can you bring baby llama to life? 🙂
This is a neat idea to try with other books about nature too.
i can’t wait to try this activity out
This is so adorable. Thanks for the idea 🙂
what a fabulous idea mixing reading and crafts.this would make reading fun not only for the child but for the parent too 🙂
This is such a sweet idea!! We always read to our little ones at bedtime but this is such a creative way to incorporate reading at any time of the day!!! I love it we will definitely be giving this a try =)
The book is lovely, cute, and fun to read for kids