The kids enjoy these stories, but I find it hard sometimes to come up with activities centered around this theme. It is also a theme that I would say as a storyteller, you have to be extra animated in your delivery because most of the stories read out like a comic book. Regardless, this was a successful and fun storytime.
After doing our bean bag song and explaining the author and his well-known characters, we began with our first story, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? The group liked this one and we all had a sudden craving for chocolate chip cookies.
For our flannel board activity, I went with counting and matching cookie shapes. I handed out cookies with different shapes on them and then had each child come up with their cookie that matched the cookie on the flannel board. Of course we went over our shapes, colors, and counted how many cookies were on the board.
Next, we read Pigeon Wants a Puppy! I think everyone enjoyed this book by Mo Willems a little bit more than the last one. We giggled when Pigeon realizes he may not want a puppy and recognized how sometimes we get upset if we don't get what we want.
Since Pigeon wanted a puppy, we counted some puppies using finger puppets. I don't think the kids would have been too excited for this one if it wasn't for the help of the book so it ended up being a good tie-in.
Our last Mo Willems story of the evening was That Is Not A Good Idea! This is a funny story with a surprise twist that the kids always laugh at and enjoy. They also like repeating, "That is NOT a good idea!" throughout the book.
It was time to make our Duckling Wants a Cookie craft! We had extra fun using black paint to make Duckling's pupil, feet, and the chocolate chips on the cookies.
"If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave." ~ Mo Willems
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