The Infant Bibliophile loves playing this Make-A-Monster game on the Sesame Street website, so this morning I decided to make him a felt version.
Supplies: felt, fabric scissors, craft glue (optional - I just used it on the eyes)
Cut out assorted eyes, noses, mouths, hats, and heads. Lay out a piece of felt, and make some monsters!
For some reason, each time he made a monster, my son explained to me that it was a "happy monster." (Despite all of the upside down mouths).
Children's Books About Monsters
The Monster at the End of this Book 
(our review is here, but you are probably sick of us mentioning this book if you read the blog regularly. I couldn't NOT list it, though).
Another Monster at the End of this Book
(our review is here)
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster,
by Mo Willems (we haven't read this one yet, but I keep meaning to! Natasha at Mawbooks offers a cute glimpse inside the book as she reads it to her kids here.)Questions:
Feel free to share your favorite monster books in the comments!
Also, what are you child's favorite free online games? The largest selections of games that our son enjoys so far are on the Sesame Street site (too many that he enjoys there to name them all), the Nickelodeon site (he particularly likes some of the Max and Ruby and Diego games), and the Curious George games on pbs.org. We would love other suggestions of fun games.
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8 comments:
Leonardo has been a big hit! As are all of Mo Willem's books. Another good one is Go Away Big Green Monster. And my kids like all the games at PBSkids.org and Nickjr.com and webkinz (just you wait) and coolmath4kids.com.
Yep, Go Away Big Green Monster is a great one. Betty and I were shopping in Barnes & Noble over the holidays and there was a storytime going on. They were reading monster books (including all the ones you mentioned in this post) and at 8 years old, she sat down and listened to all of them, even the Sesame Street ones. Very nostalgic ....
very cute monsters!
And my kids like poissonrouge.com - great exploratory site.
Cute idea!! We have a "file folder game" that's a similar idea-- alien faces. Plus it has cards that go with it. You draw a card and make the face on it. Works better for Boo than Mister, but still fun.
We LOVE the Monster at the End of this Book... both of them!
My daughter is not a huge monster fan (big surprise here :)). One book, however, that she liked was Monster Musical Chairs from MathStart series - she didn't seem to mind monsters and we read it many times. As you might have noticed - we are pretty unplugged here at the moment, and the only website that we visit occasionally is Starfall.com
@Ivy thank you for the sites! I will check them out this week for sure.
@Maryanne I tried that site, but not for awhile, so maybe we will retry it this week. Thanks!
@Britt I love the idea of a card. Maybe I could make cards for my son to pick and he could use the felt pieces to copy the image on the card.
@Melissa I'll have to pick up a copy. I think I might have been avoiding monster books a bit, not sure whether he'd be scared of them, but he has no idea that monsters are something scary yet.
@Raising I thought we were "unplugged" too, because we don't even own a TV, but lately I have been giving him more computer time as he's been sick. The funny thing is that he could care less that those games I mentioned star "characters" - he just likes the games.
That's a wonderful felt idea! We also have the file folder game but I think my 3 year old would like this even more!
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