Wacky Wednesday: Brown Bear, Brown Bear: What do you see?

Wacky Wednesday:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
What do you see?

Crafts:

• Colored Link: Construction paper, glue

1. Take strips of construction paper of each color from the book and link them together with glue.  
2. Then when the glue dries, have your child try to remember the story by the colored rings.

• Brown Bear Mask: Plates, brown felt, brown paint, black construction paper, stapler, glue, red marker, hole puncher, elastic

1. Paint a plate brown. Let dry.  
2. Cut out eye holes.
3. Cut ears out of brown felt. Glue or staple them onto plate.
4. Make a mouth with the red marker.
5. Cut out a nose out of black construction paper and glue onto mask.
6. Punch a hole in the plate, on each side, to wear mask, thread elastic through holes.

• Bear Pom Pom: 2 large brown pom pom, 6 small brown pom poms, very small black pom pom, gogglie eyes, scissors, glue

1. Glue 2 large brown pom pom together.
2. Glue the arms, legs and ears on with the 6 small pom poms.
3. Glue on the small black pom pom for the nose.
4. Glue on gogglie eyes. 

• Black Sheep: Cotton balls, black paint, picture of sheep, thin cardboard(cereal box), pencil, big gogglie eyes

1. Glue picture of sheep onto cardboard. Let dry.
2. Glue on gogglie eyes.
3. Roll cotton balls into black paint.  Then glue onto sheep.

• Goldfish and Tank: Pipe cleaners, empty cereal box, construction paper, hole puncher, shells, sand, jewels, glitter, paint

1. Cut fish out of construction paper, decorate them.  Punch a hole in the top and bottom of the fish.
2. Cut out 3/4 of the back part of the cereal box, keeping all sides intact.  
3. Paint or add construction paper to the entire box.  Add glitter to the back of tank for sparkle.
4. Punch two holes in the top and bottom of the inside of box for each fish.
5. Slide one fish onto each pipe cleaner and insert the ends of the pipe cleaner into the holes.  They can move the fish up and down if they want.
6. Glue the shells, sand, jewels onto the bottom of the tank.  

• Frog Box: Foam paper, plastic box with attached lid(baby wipes), plastic-foam ball, paints, plastic wiggle eyes

1. Cut arms and legs from foam paper.  Glue them to the box.  
2. Cut the plastic-foam ball in half.  Paint each half, and add a wiggle eye.  Glue them to the box lid.
3. Paint on a mouth, and glue on a foam-paper tongue.

• Wacky Feet: Corrugated cardboard boxes, paints, small boxes, construction paper

1. Cut each foot in a wide triangle shape.  
2. Round off one point and cut five webbed toes in the opposite end.
3. Paint it.
4. Cut a section from a small box(large enough for your child's foot).  Paint it or glue paper on it.  Staple or glue it to the large foot.

• Shaggy Dog: Cardboard tube, cardboard egg carton, paint, glue, white yarn, gogglie eyes, buttons, felt, construction paper or foam paper

1. Cut two sets of connecting cups from a cardboard egg carton for the dog's front and back feet.  Cut two individual cups for the head and tail.  Paint them.
2. Use a cardboard tube for the body.  Glue it to the sets of feet.  Glue on the head and tail cups.  Cut pieces of yarn for hair and glue in place.  Then decorate the head.  Use plastic eyes, a button nose, and foam-paper ears.

• Story-Time Mobile: Paper plate, yarn, pictures of things in story, hole puncher, paint, construction paper.

1. Paint the plate.
2. Cut the pictures out and glue them onto their right colored construction paper.  For example white dog-white paper, red bird-red paper, etc. Let dry.  Punch a hole in the top of each animal.
3. Punch holes around the plate to hang each animal from.

• Hobby Tube Horse: Cardboard tube cereal box, paint, crayons or markers, construction paper or lightweight cardboard, ribbon, yarn or heavy string, scissors, glue or tape

1. Decorate a along wrapping tube.(You can always put shorter tubes together with strong tape.) Paint the tube the color your child wants their horse.
2. Make the head from a cereal box.  Cut out a wedge.  For the neck part of the head, leave the bottom of the box in place and cut out a circle the size of the tube.  Paint or cover with construction paper.  
3. Add an eye.  It's easy to attach the mane if you first cut a piece that is double the shape you want.  Fringe on both sides and fold up both sides, leaving a 1" flat strip down the middle.  Glue that flat strip in place.  You can add a pink nose and a pink paper-and-ribbon harness.
4. Slide the tube all the way up into the box.  If the circle you cut isn't too big, the tube will probably stay in just fine.  Otherwise, add glue or tape.

• Birds of a Feather: Paper plates, crayons or markers, scissors, glue, staples, hole puncher, metal fastener, yarn

1. Use plates of any size.  Draw an outline of a bird's body in the middle of a plate, letting the rim on one side of the plate be the bird's tail and the rim directly opposite it be the bird's beck.
2. Hold a second plate against the first plate bottom-to-bottom.  Cut along the outline of the bird you drew.(You'll have two bird bodies.) 
3. Make a set of wings by drawing an outline on a piece of the leftover plate.  Hold a second piece against the first back-to-back and cut.
4. Glue the two bodies together, leaving the tails unglued.  Create an eye on each side of the head and attach the wings with glue, staples, or a metal fastener. 
5. Paint the bird. Let dry.
6. Find the balance point where your bird will hand as though flying, punch a hole, and string a 20' -24" length of yarn through the hole.  Bend the wings away from the bird's body, fluff its tail, and hang your feathered friend where it can "fly"

• Magnet School: Cardboard egg carton, markers or paints, crepe paper or tissue paper, gogglie eyes, magnet strips

1. Cut out one egg-carton cup for each fish you want to make.  Trim each cup to look like fish.  
2. Color the cups with markers or paint.  Cut out fins from crepe paper or tissue paper and glue to the inside top and bottom of each cup.
3. Glue a gogglie eye to one side of each fish.  Glue a piece of magnet strip to the opposite side.  Use a marker to draw on a mouth.

Activities: 

• I spy game
• Spinning Game: Plate, brad, red card stock, 5 pictures of each animals in book, poster board, glue, crayons

1. Cut a red arrow out of the red card stock.  Attach to center of plate with brad.
2. Glue each animal around the plate.  Separate each animal with a line, drawn down to the brad.  Your child can color the sections the color of the animal if they want.
3. Glue the rest of the pictures to a piece of poster board.  Let dry. Cut the pictures out like a deck of cards.
4. Each player, up to four players, gets a pile of each animal.
5. The first person who goes spins the arrow and whatever animal the arrow lands on, that child gets to turn that card over.  Then the next person goes, and so on.  The first person to get their whole deck turned over wins.  If the child spins an animal they already turned over, they don't do anything, the next player goes.  

• I Saw Book: Foam piece, 8 pieces of card stock, hole puncher, yarn, crayons, pen

1. Take a foam piece and fold it in half and cut down the middle.
2. Take 8 pieces of card stock and fold them in half and then place a foam piece on top and bottom for the covers.
3. Make three holes down the sides of the book.  
4. Cut yarn into three pieces and thread them through the holes and tie a knot.
5. Have your child make up their own What do you see book?  They can draw pictures to go along with their story.  
6. Don't forget to write a title on the front cover.

• Leap Frog
• Duck, Duck, Goose
• Pasta and Cereal Art: Pasta, cereal, construction paper, glue, paint

1. Have your child make their own animals by gluing pasta and cereal onto construction paper.  
2. They can paint their pasta picture, if they want.

• Fishing Game: Box, paints, poster board, hole puncher, markers, beads, yarn, paper clips, stick or dowel

1. Cut several silts in a box.
2. From poster board, cut out a fish with a tab on the bottom, and punch a hole in the top.
3. Decorate it with paints, markers, and beads.
4. Make several.  Stick them in the slits.  
5. To make a fishing pole, tie yarn and a bent paper clip to a stick or dowel.
6. Have your child to get a fish onto their pole.

• Great website for more crafts, activities and printable pictures. Click Here 
• Brown Bear, Bear Board Game

Food:

• Marshmallow Bear: Big Carmel Marshmallows or Big white marshmallows dip in chocolate, pretzels, peanut butter or frosting, M&M's, small marshmallows

1. Attach two big marshmallows with a pretzel stick.  Use can use the carmel ones or dip white marshmallows into chocolate and let dry.
2. Attach small marshmallows onto big marshmallows on with peanut butter or frosting for the ears, legs, and arms of the bear.
3. Attach M&M's onto the face of bear with peanut butter or frosting for the eyes.

• Teddy Grahams 
• Seeds

Book:

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?  by Bill Martin Jr. 

Some ideas were found in the following book:

Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items!

Wacky Wednesday: Brown Bear, Brown Bear: What do you see?