Happy Spray Bottle Publish Hunt Alongside The Gruffalo

This post is sponsored past times NCircle Entertainment and The Gruffalo.

This is our 4th calendar week of Virtual Book Club Summer Camp and it is FOREST FUN WEEK! Each post volition characteristic activities too children's books related to wood animals and/or fun things you lot tin create inward the forest. If you're non however subscribed to our weekly campsite emails, go here to sign up.

Spray bottles are pretty much our favorite affair to utilisation when nosotros become to the forest. If you lot desire to run into the unproblematic action nosotros did final twelvemonth when nosotros went camping, become to my toddler camping ground post.

Since it is Forest Fun Week, we'll hold upwards sharing a unproblematic spray bottle publish hunt nosotros did with The Gruffalo!

The Gruffalo is a fabulous majority past times Julia Donaldson that tells the tale of a mouse that is taking a walk through the wood too runs into a hungry fox, thus an owl, too thus a snake. To avoid getting eaten, the mouse invents the Gruffalo!

Everything is to a greater extent than fun amongst The Gruffalo... thus nosotros are excited to include him too the other characters from the majority inward our learning action today!

You could endeavor this game inward the actual forest... or but laid it upwards inward your menage or backyard. It is real versatile. We used this action to instruct too review unproblematic 1:1 correspondence for numbers 1-5 along amongst how to write numbers 1-5. If you lot desire to create numbers 1-10, you'll request to impress out eleven copies of the Gruffalo printable (or but depict the animals yourself).

Here's what you lot request to play:

spray bottle/water
contact paper
scissors
white board marker
paper towel/cloth
5 pieces of cardstock
marker
tape
3 copies of the Gruffalo characters printable

Here's how to develop the activity:

Cut out the characters from your Gruffalo characters printables. If you lot used 3 copies thus you lot should bring xv animals (three sets of each character). We LOVE these beautiful colored illustrations, thus it is fun to utilisation them for an activity!

Next, record or mucilage v characters onto i slice of cardstock. Make a large circle/oval inward the oculus of the paper.

Then record iv characters onto the adjacent slice of cardstock too depict an oval... too thus three, 2 one...

You tin either prep this ahead of fourth dimension or bring your kid cutting the animals out too tape/glue them onto the paper.

Once each sail of newspaper has betwixt 1-5 Gruffalo characters on it, comprehend the front end of the newspaper amongst contact newspaper too acquire out a sparse 1 inch border to a greater extent than or less it thus that you lot tin stick the newspaper to the wall.

Hide each creature covered newspaper inward a unlike location inward your menage or yard on the wall (or ground). Some surfaces volition adhere amend to contact newspaper than others. Feel gratuitous to utilisation painters record if the contact newspaper won't stick to a wall/ground all past times itself.

Here's how you lot play:

Have your kid grab your white board marking too spray bottle filled amongst water.

Call out a publish 1-5 too bring your kid hunt to a greater extent than or less the menage to discovery the newspaper that shows than many Gruffalo characters on it. Once your kid has counted the animals, you lot tin verbalise most the characters together too yell them too thus bring your kid write the publish he counted inward the large oval inward the oculus of the paper.

After he has counted the animals too written the publish correctly he tin SPRAY the publish too build clean it off too thus you lot tin telephone band out the adjacent number.

Spraying the publish volition most probable hold upwards their favorite utilisation :) My boy was thus excited to count too write but thus that he could erase the number!

Have a towel on mitt to choose handle of whatever H2O drips.

Once nosotros went through too institute too wrote each number, thus nosotros went too did it again... except the minute fourth dimension he had to write all of the numbers kickoff too thus discovery the biggest publish (5) too wipe it build clean too thus become too discovery the adjacent biggest publish (4) too wipe it clean... too thus become backwards inward monastic nation cleaning each publish until he got to the smallest publish (1).

My lilliputian guy wanted to pose amongst each publish earlier he erased it... thus I bring quite a few pictures of him making light-headed faces. We did diverse versions of this publish hunt all morning!

Older Kid Version:

The final version of this action was a flake trickier. I said a mental math judgement (ie. vi animals were inward the wood too thus 4 went away... 6-4=) too thus my boy solved the work inward his caput too institute the Gruffalo flick that showed that response (2)... Then he wrote inward the response too thus sprayed it too wiped it. This was such a fun challenge for him too he LOVED IT! He is i that is obsessed amongst math too doing mental math problems!

Have you lot always used a spray bottle to create math? Have you lot tried whatever math activities amongst The Gruffalo?

Make certain to halt past times tomorrow to run into the other "forest fun week" activities nosotros are sharing too also caput over to The Educators' Spin On It for their VBC Summer Camp featured post.

Also, don't forget to motility into our "forest fun week" giveaways from The Gruffalo too Craftprojectideas.com. Go here for to a greater extent than details!

... but wait...

Oh no! It's a sparkly Gruffalo!

As utilisation of our Forest Fun Gruffalo Week nosotros volition hold upwards joining inward amongst the Gruffalo Adventures Facebook Contest and we'll hold upwards going on some Gruffalo adventures this week!

Here's the Gruffalo puppet that my kids made today.

Come discovery us on Instagram and our Toddler Approved FB page with the hashtag #gruffaloadventures

Our Gruffalo plans to hold upwards all over the San Francisco Bay surface area this week!

We'd beloved you lot to participate too!

1. Print off this Gruffalo coloring page.

2. Have your kids color it inward or decorate it how they'd like.

3. Take it amongst you lot on all of your adventures this calendar week (or fifty-fifty for the residual of the month, the competitor goes till the terminate of July!)

4. Snap a flick of your Gruffalo adventures too include your Gruffalo.

5. Post your flick too include the hashtag #gruffaloadventures or but post your epitome on the Gruffalo World FB page

Participants that bring together the Gruffalo Adventures competitor this calendar month volition hold upwards entered to win the super July prize of a $50 Amazon Giftcard too Gruffalo Puppet!

Here's a badge for you lot to add together to your weblog if you lot are participating inward Summer Camp!

Stay tuned for some other unproblematic Gruffalo action tomorrow!
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by NCircle Entertainment and The Gruffalo as utilisation of our Virtual Book Club Summer Camp too I was compensated for this post. All opinions expressed are mine.

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