Monday, January 21, 2013

Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin


What a great book about not letting little things bring you down. At 24 months, I am not sure that H understood that great lesson, but he loved the rhythm and activities that went along with it. We had fun with this already fun story.

Pete the Cat is a fun story. To kick off the week's theme, I painted a large "Pete" and put him up on the wall in our playroom. H liked seeing "Pete Cack" (Pete Cat) up on the wall. 


 This is our Pete the Cat sensory walk. I unrolled a long panel of white paper with four stations (red paint, blue paint, brown paint, and water). As we walked down the path, we recalled the story and repeated: "Did he cry?", "Goodness, No!", and then sang the song as we walked along. He walked to do it over and over again, which is great. Note: it was slippery with paint on his feet, so make sure you are holding his hand. Luckily, I had his hand the first time and learned that lesson for all the future walks.

H did not like being blindfolded (he only played along once before he realized he hated it), so we played a modified version of pin the shoe on Pete, which was available for free on Harper Collins' website. Also on their website is the song, video, coloring sheets, and links to information and activities for all the Pete the Cat books in the series.


 We came up with all sorts of silly different ideas of what Pete could step in and what color that would turn his shoes. I printed Pete the Cat outlines from http://www.scribd.com/doc/63779920/Small-Pete and we created six different Pete the cats based on different things he might have stepped in (including carrots and pickles, pictured)

We also enjoyed Pete the Cat and Rocking in My School Shoes, which we were saw at our library, and it was equally adorable and fun to read and sing along with.

1 comment:

  1. We got this book for Christmas and Aly loves it! Definitely stealing some of these ideas!

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