The mitten story printable and handson activity for preschool. Fun visuals and text from jan bretts book with added sound effects. Do stuff the mitten you will find a pdf of the mitten and all the animals who crawled into the mitten on jan bretts web site. Click here for the best bookstore prices on jan brett books. See more ideas about winter theme, kindergarten literacy and kindergarten reading. Her nowclassic version of the mitten is a favorite classroom read aloud every winter. Grandmother baba makes white mittens for nicki but warns him that white mittens are easily lost in the snow.
Free mitten printables and montessoriinspired mitten activities. Pair of mittens 300061 2 mitten cutouts, unfinished, wood cutout, wood craft, laser cut, wood cut out, door hanger, christmas, wooden annelaynetoo 5 out of. Read the story by yourself 24 times over the course of at least 2 days. Cut out the mittens on the previous page and glue the outside edges of the mittens together, leaving an opening along the bottom edge of the mittens. Buy online, pick up in store is currently unavailable, but this item may be available for instore purchase. I enjoyed the illustrations more than the folktale itself. Great for use as an extra prop during role play, or for enhancing your display. Qtip painting printables featuring animals from the mitten. Color the mittens and the animals, cut out the two mittens and tape them together to make one, then cut out the animals. Then the bear sneezes and the animals fly out of the mitten. Ask the students to stack the two mitten shapes and punch holes outlining the entire mitten, except for the base of the shape. Preschool books, montessori activities, kindergarten literacy, preschool activities, preschool. Most of these books can be found at your local library or. Have the students color the animals and then use them for the mitten craft.
You could also turn this into a felt board or magnetic activity by adhering the mittens to felt or sticking magnets to them. I love making a unit out of this book during the winter months. The mitten includes four different reading level versions plus a wordless version. This book would be a good introduction to ukrainian culture, especially their folk tales and folk art. The bear sneezes, and all of the animals pop out of the mitten, causing it to sail in the air just as nicki is about to give up. Children can compare a mitten to a glove, or the mitten story to jan bretts companion story the hat. The mitten activities and crafts books and giggles. Ive looked over the download, and am amazed that these 92 pagesread more. I also designed 3 mitten venn diagrams, perfect for helping your students practice the concept of comparison and contrast. For this tray, i used the mitten unit and lapbook printables by kelly cooper and ami on homeschool share. If you have not read the story to your own children, you may purchase the book below. I recommend printing the cards on card stock paper and laminating them. Mitten activity pack with free printables moments with miss.
You could also have them stack the mittens from biggest to smallest like they are in the photo above. The mitten sails up into the air and nicki finds it. The mitten book list the hat by jan brett the mitten by alvin tresselt exploring the world of foxes by tracy read over and under the snow by kate messner animals in winter by henrietta bancroft. Super simple, but still effective, have students put the animal cutouts and animal name cards in order as they retell the.
Heres a fun mitten related activity that will stimulate visual imagery and increase each childs awareness of his sense of touch. Each of our children has enjoyed the mitten whether a board books, a paperpack, or. Use the the mitten even and odd number sort game to have your. As you read the story with your child, have him put the animals below into the mitten in the order you read about them in the book. Using cut outs of a mitten and the animal characters, have students assist in an oral retelling of the story. Inside this pack, youll find a printable lacing card and cutouts for your preschoolers to use as they retell the story. Books by jan brett have been huge favorites in our house, especially her story the mitten. Stack them together and put two staples at the top.
Have the student glue them on to a snowy scene in the correct order. Jan bretts wonderful adaption of the ukrainian folktale the mitten makes a great base for a unit on mittens to use during the winter months with your preschool and kindergarten children. She goes back through her day of snow activities and finally finds the red mitten on the snowman looking like a heart. Theres also a venn diagram to compare 2 animal characters. The missing mitten mystery by steven kellogg book not included is a fun book about a little girl that loses another mitten. I would highly recommend printing the activities from this set. I suggest laminating them all for stability before using them. A classic ukrainian folktale retold and stunningly illustrated by brett, the mitten follows the adventures of little nicki, who loses his white mitten in the snow and the curious crew of. Put the animals in the ee printable by jan brett to go with. Using the overhead, highlightmask letters m, k, l, n. Next, each of your students choose a piece of yarn. The mitten story craft enchanted learning software. These are some of the activities our children like to do after reading the book.
Ask the children to line up the mittens from largest to smallest. If you have an older child or are working with older children and they are digging the clothespins from the fine motor color match activity, you could have. Our fun activities will help you to teach and your children practice and learn math and language arts concepts and. Send students back to their seats and explain they will be making a mitten book showing the story elements in the mitten. The mitten is a beautiful ukrainian folk story that our family first became familiar with through the jan brett version.
The mitten by jan brett meet your next favorite book. The cards can also be used for other activities and games, such as rhyming, beginning sounds, counting and more. This year we are using the book for a week of preschool work for ladybug and i am using jolanthes the mitten printable packs, my own printables above and a few new ones i made for her. Make a copy of the mittens and animals for each child so they can color and cut out. This is a fun cutting and gluing activity as well as a way to learn more about the animals in the mitten. The mitten preschool activities and crafts kidssoup. The bestselling modern classic, in a sturdy board book edition perfect for little. Mitten graph give each student a large mitten on white paper. The mitten craft shape is cut out of baltic birch plywood and is ready to paint or decorate. The mitten jan brett storybook primary resources story book. Holes should be about an inch apart and somewhat close to the mitten s edge. Distribute cutout mittens and show students how to write titles or. Students can also color and cut out their own mitten and characters during small group time today. As an alternate idea, you can use the smaller squares.
The mitten jan brett please sign in or join for free to suggest a change for this resource. Left mittens right mittens cut out the mittens below and sort them into the correct box. Dramatic and sweet, this book will evoke warm and cozy feelings in readers any time of the year. Grabbing the mitten triumphantly, he takes it back to his grandmothers house. Materials and information may be used for your own personal and school use. The mitten jan brett teaching resources for key stage 1 year 1, year 2. Bring this story to life with these lovely cut outs. The mitten freebies and links first grade blue skies. Download the mitten printables pack even and odd number sorting.
The mitten tiny picture dictionary a short book to print. One by one the animals big and small find shelter and each other inside the mitten. This cozy picture book is perfect for teaching sequencing and story retelling. The little mitten cutouts highlight the upcoming action, which our son really likes. The mitten and winter preschool and kindergarten activities, lessons, crafts, and games. Pin it the mitten printables includes fun activities to tie in with the story vocabulary words, word tracer cards, a tracer page, sequencing cards, a fun song, beginning sound cards, counting activities and more.
After your preschoolers complete the sorting activity above, print out this set of the mitten story printables. I read this one to my little girl who enjoyed the animals and the snow. Story sequencing and word cards are included, and the pictures can be colored. These wood mitten cutouts are ready for you to finish in your next art and craft project. Animal cutout enough animals so that each group has one rabbit, hedgehog, etc. Literacy activities winter activities the mitten book activities winter art winter theme preschool books preschool winter author studies arctic animals. Print, laminate, and cut out the mittens and have your child place them in size order. The mitten can then either be taped or sewed together. Have them trace around the same hand twice, then cut out the two mitten shapes. After reading the book, the mitten, by jan brett, use these animal cards to teach your prek kids vocabulary, recall, and story sequencing. As we read the book, lets think about what could really fit into a mitten. Cut small mitten shapes and write the numbers 012 on the mittens for each student. The mitten was a retelling of a ukrainian winter folktale.
Pairs of mitten cutouts with sight words printed on them. On each page draw a picture of another animal who could have crawled into the mitten and tell why the other animals might have let it in. Click on each letter for the fullsized print or click on the link under the artwork for a pdf version. Make cutouts of mittens and write one of the following on each mitten.
I did some investigating and found some things online to include with the book and made some of my own all shared below. The illustrations are simply amazing, and there are many activities that can be done to encourage learning as we read. Here are patterns for the mitten and the animals that look lovely. The mitten printable sight word activity books and giggles. Today we did a miniunit on the mitten by jan brett, one of my favorites. The first half of the kit focuses on skills for younger children and the second includes pages for more advanced preschoolers or kindergarteners. Print and laminate animal cutouts, then invite students to stuff the mitten as they retell the story. And here is my proven 3step process for storytelling. I thought it was a creative touch to add the mitten windows which allowed you to catch a glimpse of what was going on inside or outside of the cottage. Free mitten printables and montessoriinspired mitten. The mitten free printable book homeschool giveaways.
Use a file folder and laminated mitten cutouts, optional to create a mitten shaped pocket. Snow mittens 18006166 christmas cutout, unfinished, wood cutout, wood craft, laser cut shape, wood cut out, door hanger, holiday, wooden annelaynetoo 5. The mitten by jan brett is a beloved winter book that both young and old adore. Color the mittens and the animals, cut out the two mittens and.
The mitten activity pack story, crafts and activities. Positive messages no heavy message here but the suggestion is that one animal too many a tiny mouse in this case pushes the mitten beyond its limit. Fill your book basket with more of jan bretts winter stories. The richly illustrated book tells the story of nicki, a young boy who asks for white mittens from his baba grandmother, and promptly loses one, which is explored by several forest animals before it is returned to nicki albeit, a bit stretched out.
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