Happy Cardboard Box Rider Vehicle Arts And Crafts & Give Away Game For Kids {Mo Willems Virtual Mass Gild For Kids}
December 17, 2018
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We are kicking off a novel schoolhouse twelvemonth of Virtual Book Club for Kids too this calendar month nosotros are featuring books past times writer Mo Willems.
Our absolute favorite Mo Willems mass is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, thence afterwards reading the mass nosotros decided to create a simple cardboard box motorbus arts and crafts too thence nosotros made a life sized board game to aid the dove larn dwelling family too also practise counting.
Shhh!!! Don't say anyone that the dove genuinely drove the bus! :)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus is a super giddy mass past times Mo Willems that features a dove who genuinely wants to campaign a bus. My kids dearest it when I read the mass to them too deed goofy too scream, "LET ME DRIVE THE BUS." I can't aid but smiling every fourth dimension I read the book. The author's vocalization is awesome inward this mass too since my kids are also obsessed alongside vehicles, it is ever a hit.
Lately we've been loving discover activities too large life-sized board games thence inspired past times the motorbus inward the mass nosotros decided to create our ain motorbus for the dove too allow him campaign roughly too practise counting too moving. We made our motorbus xanthous instead of blueish though!
The Cardboard Box Bus Craft
The sentiment for making a cardboard box motorbus was non original. I constitute several awesome examples online too I pieceed ours together using several other blogs every bit inspiration. My favorites were the Cracker Box Bus from The Intentional Momma. Instead of using small-scale boxes nosotros used a diaper box to brand our motorbus into 1 that the kids could campaign around. This arts and crafts is to a greater extent than of a mom arts and crafts for kids versus a arts and crafts that kids make... though uncomplicated schoolers could easily brand this.
Materials needed: cardboard box, tape, black/red/white structure paper, pigeon printable from Mo Willem's website (enlarged), large xanthous easel paper, scissors, too colored cardstock (with out printable game pieces printed out)
All nosotros did to brand our large motorbus was to encompass the box alongside large xanthous newspaper (leaving the bottom too top open), secure the newspaper alongside tape, too thence add together details alongside structure paper.
Once nosotros added all of the details thence I enlarged too printed out an ikon of the dove from Mo Willem's laid of fingerpuppet printables on his website. Then I colored it too added it to the bus!
My kids had a smash simply running roughly the family wearing the box. I could've added straps to lucifer it on, but they didn't heed asset the edges of the box every bit they moved.
The solely negative most my cardboard motorbus was that the newspaper wheels got bent when the kids sat down... the kids didn't look to attention though.
The game:
In our game the dove wants to larn home. In monastic say to do that he has to curlicue the give-up the ghost too displace from infinite to infinite too count too do the actions on the infinite he lands on inward monastic say to travel able to rest on his spot. If he doesn't consummate the action, he has to larn dorsum 1 space. Players accept turns until 1 thespian gets his motorbus (with the dove inward it) home!
Technically having a motorbus for each thespian is best, but you lot could also purpose toy buses instead of a large cardboard box bus.
Materials needed: die, cardstock game board pieces, painters tape
I created a SUPER simple laid of gameboard cards that you lot could impress out onto colored cardstock too purpose every bit your gameboard or you lot could come upwards up alongside your ain displace ideas too write them on cardstock yourself. You'll desire to record them to the flooring using painters tape.
Some of the gameboard ideas included... hopping, skipping, doing doggie kicks, arm circles, etc. This is a simple agency to larn kids moving too counting too!
This game is created for preschoolers but you lot could easily conform it for toddlers or older kids.
Are you lot joining Virtual Book Club for Kids too? Come portion whatsoever Mo Willems inspired activities that you lot do alongside your tike or class! Come portion your activity sentiment too photos on our VBC Facebook Page or inward the comments department of this weblog post.
Check out some of the awesome Mo Willems inspired activities past times our Virtual Book Club for Kids Co-Hosts:
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Activities
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Activity past times Coffee Cups too Crayons
Mo Willems Inspired DIY Bunny Costume Felt Headband past times The Educators' Spin On It
Knuffle Bunny Activity Mats past times ready-set-read
The Duckling Gets a Cookie Activities
Nut Free Alphabet Cookies past times Rainy Day Mum
Sticky Cookie Craft past times The Pleasantest Thing
The Duckling Gets a Cookie Math Games past times Inspiration Laboratories
The Ducking Gets a Cookie Printable Clothespin Activity past times Lalymom