Moose made from Four 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.

What to do:

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.

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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.

What to do:

1. Print out the muffin patternand cut it. 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 eat? Keep changing the amount of muffins you feed the moose and the amount of muffins you start with.

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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.

What to do:

1. Print out the muffin patternand cut it. 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 table and picking a word. If a child can pronounce the word, he can feed it to the moose.

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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 constuction 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.

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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.

What to do:

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.

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