Freight Train by Donald Crews

Today our book was chosen by Eva, and it is one of my favorites in our family library: Freight Train by Donald Crews. I think I originally bought this book when Ember was our only child, and I chose it because of Alex working with freight trains. I love it for its simplicity in text and illustrations. As we read the book Eva focused on telling us the colors of each car (good practice!).

For our activity we built train cars from cardboard boxes, an idea I know I've seen before (one search result includes the idea written up in www.childfun.com). I don't know that Eva and Eryn were excited about making their own train car, but they were all over the acrylic paints that I busted out for this project, since we usually use only watercolors. This was an outdoors activity for sure. Hopefully no vegetation will die due to the over-glittering that occurred.