Join the Fun with Eric Carle

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Learning about authors and connecting with them can be one of the greatest ways to teach your own child about becoming a writer and an inspire them to read! We've team up with several other bloggers to celebrate one of our favorite authors...ERIC CARLE!  Here's your chance to learn about Eric Carle with your child and see how much fun you can have as you're inspired by his imagination! 

Happy Birthday Eric Carle!

Eric Carle has his own website that I encourage you to visit.  He even has a special portion where he shares videos of how he creates his pictures.  Eric Carle's Photo and Video Gallery

Go Visit Eric Carle's Blog for newest info

Visit The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art . 

Listen to Eric Carle read The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Activities for Eric Carle Books

• Create your Own Very Hungry Caterpillar Party 
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet from Family Education

• The Very Quiet Cricket Virtual Book Club Activities
• Eric Carle on Amazon
• Pinterest has so many Eric Carle Pin Boards!  

•  Painting a Bug

Sometimes it's the simpliest activities that help connect your child to a book.  We created some bugs in response to reading Eric Carle's Books.  My daughter had so much fun and really discovered her creative side by painting the paper first with watercolors and then cutting the papers to create her own insect creations. 

   

We love our Stories for All Seasons by Eric Carle. Inside it contains Rooster's Off to See the World, A House for Hermit Crab, and The Tiny Seed

• The Tiny Seed Activity

We also enjoyed planting Zinnia seeds and dreaming up our own The Tiny Seed story.  Retelling a story can be so much for fun when it's with a real object.  Every year we save our blossoms from our zinnias and replant the and share them with friends.  This year I had my daughter create her own story about the tiny seed and where she thought it would drift off too.  I wonder what your child could imagine would happen to a tiny seed? 

COME JOIN THE FUN WITH ERIC CARLE

Now comes the fun part!  How do you bring the magic of Eric Carle into your home?  We've joined up with some of our favorite bloggers to create a fanastic Resource of Eric Carle Activities for your child. 

 Participating Blogs:

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas :: No Twiddle Twaddle :: Reading Confetti :: Teach Preschool :: Mommy and Me Book Club :: The Educators' Spin On It :: Living Montessori Now :: Living at the Whiteheads Zoo :: Famiglia and Seoul :: Smiling Like Sunshine :: The Iowa Farmer's Wife :: Rainy Day Mum :: Familylicious :: Our Feminist Play School :: Inspiration Laboratories :: Royal Baloo :: Kitchen Counter Chronicles

Please PIN from the Hosting Site below, not the small image, they'd love for you to come visit and see how to create it!  

We invite you to join our Year Long Virtual Book Club for Kids featuring a different Author each month! Here's a list of authors we have shared so far along with several book related activities. 

Don and Audrey Woods  ~  Mo Willems  ~ Kevin Henkes  ~ Lois Ehlert  
 Amy Krouse Rosenthal  ~ Tomie dePaola  ~   Jan Brett  ~ David McPhail 
  Dr. Seuss  ~  Julia Donaldson  and More to Come 

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