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:

1. A Cuddle for Little Duck book
2. Yellow & orange construction paper
3. Non Toxic glue
4. Googly eyes
5. Scissors (adult use only)
6. A nature trail, forest preserve, prairie, pond or pet shop if you can’t go outside in nature.
7. Open arms for cuddles

What to do:

1. Read the book A Cuddle for Little Duck
2. 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
3. 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)
4. Cut small triangle from orange construction paper for beak and two bigger triangles for feet
5. Glue all the parts together to form a duck
6. Glue on to face the beak and googly eyes
7. 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!