Moose Crafts and Activities
Crafts
and Activities Relating to Moose. Lesson Plan Ideas for "If
You Give a Moose a Muffin with crafts, and Math and Reading Activities
How to Make Crafts and Activities Relating to Moose Including: Pencil Holder, Bookmarks, Stand up Moose, Moose
Made from Four Bags, Moose
Muffin Math Game, Moose
Word Games, "If
You Give a Moose a Muffin" Follow the Tracks Mystery Game, "If
You Give a Moose a Muffin" Craft Page and Color Sheet, Moose
Puppet Made from a Paper Cup and Brown Lunch Bag
Moose Pencil Holder
 What you will need: Cardstock, scissors, glue or tape, and/or colored pencils or crayons.
How to make:
1. Draw a picture of a moose head and front legs as shown or print out the pattern (Pattern available to members only.)
2. Color and cut out the patterns. Cut slits up along the inside of the legs as shown.
3. Decorate a tin can or use a paper cup. Place the moose cutout on the edge of the can or cup with the legs hanging over. Secure with tape or glue.
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Moose Bookmark
 What you will need: Cardstock, scissors, and/or colored pencils or crayons.
How to make:
1. Draw a picture of a moose with its front legs hanging over the bookmark as shown or print out the pattern (Available to members only. Click here for the pattern.)
2. Color and cut out the bookmarks.
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Stand up Moose Craft for Kids
 What you will need: Cardstock, scissors, colored pencils or crayons, and tape or glue.
How to make:
1. Draw a picture of a moose body as shown in the picture (Pattern available to members only.) and then fold your paper in half. The folded edge should be at the top of the moose's body.
2. Cut out the moose figure without cutting the folded edge.
3. Draw a moose head and cut it out. Glue it to the body.
4. Spread the legs out a little so your moose will stand up.
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Moose
Made from Four Paper Bags Craft
 This moose can be
used as a craft or a prop to use with a moose thematic unit.
What
you will need: Two lunch bags, two grocery bags, gray or tan
cardstock for the antlers, pink construction paper, hot melt glue
gun or tape, and a black marker.
How to make:
1.
To make the head place one of the two lunch bags inside the other.
They should both be open, one inside the other. Cut a mouth shape
from the outer bag as shown, so that the mouth will open as shown
in the picture. Cut a pink tongue from construction paper, the same
shape you just cut, and glue it to the inside of the mouth. Stuff
the bags with wrinkled up plastic grocery bags and glue the open
end closed.
2.
Print out the antler
pattern onto cardstock and cut out.
3.
To make the body stuff a large grocery bag with wrinkled up newspaper
and glue it closed.
4.
Cut the sides off another grocery bag. Cut the sides in half and
roll each section up to make legs. Glue them to the body.
5.
Cut ear shapes from the left over part of the grocery bag and glue
them to the head. Glue on the antlers behind the ears as shown.
6.
Glue the head to the body. Use a black magic marker to draw eyes
and nose holes.
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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"Moose on the Loose" Learning Activities
"Moose on the Loose" by Kathy-jo Wargin
What would you do with a moose on the loose? This book asks the reader many questions about what he or she would do with a moose that is making himself at home in a little boys house. The moose becomes more daring and troublisome as the day goes on. Although he causes a lot of chaos, it is hard to imagine kicking him out of the house because he is so endearing. The cartoonish pictures, hilarious situations, and rhyming words make this book of great interest to children.
Learning Activity - This is a great book from children to learn about ryhmning words and writing. Have them write and illustrate their own pages to add to the book in the same format as the author. They will enjoy this activity because they can get as crazy as they would like. |
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Moose
Muffin Math Game
This is a great math game
to use with a thematic unit on moose or use as a supplement to If
you Give a Moose a Muffin book by Laura Joffe Numeroff.
You
can use the moose above or the moose picture below to play this
game.
How to make:
1.
Print out the muffin
pattern and cut it out. Use it to cut muffin shapes from brown
construction paper.
2.
Practice math facts with your students. Tell the children that you
have twelve muffins, or any number you wish to use. Lay the muffins
out in front of the children. Tell the children that you are going
to give the moose some muffins. Randomly gather up some of the muffins
and place them in the mouth of the moose. Ask the children to count
how many muffins you have left. Ask them how many muffins the moose ate. Keep changing the amount of muffins you feed the moose and
the amount of muffins you start with.
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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Moose
Word Games
This is a great way to review vocabulary
words to use with a thematic unit on moose or use as a supplement
to If you Give a Moose a Muffin book by Laura Joffe
Numeroff.
You
can use the moose above or the moose picture below to play this
game.
How to make:
1.
Print out the muffin
pattern and cut it out . Use it to cut muffin shapes from brown
construction paper.
2.
Print vocabulary words taken from the story on the muffins. Lay
them out on a table or tape them to the board. Have the children
take turns coming up to the table and picking a word. If a child can
pronounce the word, he can feed it to the moose.
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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"If
You Give a Moose a Muffin" Follow the Tracks Mystery Game
The
moose in the story "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" left
tracks and messes wherever he went. Point out the things in the
pictures he left behind as evidence that he had been there. When
your children are out of the room place moose tracks around your
room that the children can follow from one area to another. Leave
evidence of what the moose had done or gotten into. Discuss with
the children what they think happened while they were out of the
room. For example:
Set up tracks coming through the door. You can use washable brown
paint that looks like mud or cut track
shapes from brown construction paper. Have the tracks go
to a muffin wrapper with crumbs left behind, then over to the sink
where they find soap and water all over the counter. Then they can
lead to an easel where a picture of a moose family has been painted.
You can then leave different colors of tracks because the moose
has paint on his hoofs that lead to a desk where he writes something
and then maybe to the pencil sharpener. Leave the pencil in the
pencil sharpener and have the prints lead out another door. Maybe
make them farther apart like he was running. You can also leave
brown hairs behind. (Hair cut from fake fur material.) Talk about
how one thing led to another. Write down the sequence of events
on the board or have your children write them down.
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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"If
You Give a Moose a Muffin" Craft Page and Color Sheet
 The
face of this moose is glued to a sheet of paper so that any number
of muffins can be placed in his mouth.
Patterns
and directions for this craft page are found on the Members
Only section of Danielle's Place. (Join Danielle's
Place.)
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Moose
Puppet Made from a Paper Cup and Brown Lunch Bag
 What
you will need: Brown
lunch bag, 9 oz. paper cup, tan card stock, wiggly eyes, glue, brown
paint, and scissors.
How to make:
1.
Paint the outside of the paper cup brown. While it is drying cut
out two ear shapes and legs from cardstock (thick paper) and paint
them brown also.
2.
Trace your hands onto cardstock and cut them out to make antlers.
Fold the tips of the ears and glue the folded edge onto the inside
rim of the glass. Do the same thing for the antlers.
3.
Open up a paper bag and place your hand inside. Squeeze the bottom
of the paper bag into the paper cup, flattening it out inside the
cup as much as possible. Remove the bag and place glue all around
the inside of the paper cup. Put the bag back into the cup and press
it around the sides. When it is dry paint the bag to match the face.
To finish, glue on the arms, legs, and eyes.
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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