Book: One Duck Stuck

Ember chose our book, One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root. It's a counting/animal/helpfulness/teamwork book - yep, all that.

I found several cute duck crafts, but Ember said she wanted to do an activity. So I brainstormed and came up with the idea to have the girls make stick puppets, and then we would find a mud puddle where we could create our own One Duck Stuck production. I envisioned us taking a pic for each page. So I found line drawings for each of the animals in the book, printed as many as there were for each animal, cut out the animals, and set the girls to work coloring the images and attaching them to sticks.

Well, the girls lost interest before all the animals were colored. Ember asked if we can finish it up and do the pics next Saturday. If I did it over I would print the animals so that instead of 3 separate moose, I would have a group of 3 moose, for example. Then I would print enough for every child to have a complete set. When recreating the story, we can take turns using different children's puppets.

Lesson learned.