I recently blogged about 8 Ways for Cultivating a Love of Reading in Children, and mentioned that one way to build upon their reading interest is to do activities based on books.  As I continued to work through how I’d make that more of a reality in my home, I decided to compile a list of activities based on the most popular children’s books out there.  Enjoy!

1) Make a caterpillar and pipe cleaner snack  |  2) Handprint butterfly |  3) Make caterpillars out of plastic cups and forks  |  4) Caterpillar play dough  |  5) A caterpillar necklace  |  6) A color sorting activity  |  7) painting activity using balloons  |  8) Tissue paper caterpillars

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1) Oh, the Places You’ll Go paper mache balloons  | 2) Cook some green eggs and ham from Green Eggs and Ham  3) Make a family foot book from The Foot Book | 4) Truffula Trees from The Lorax  |  5) One fish, two fish handprint craft  |  6) Felt sleep mask from I Can Sleep with my Eyes Shut | 7) Fox in Socksock puppet  |  8) The Cat in the Hat clothespin puppet

1) Sensory Bin  |  2) Create a tree craft using real fall leaves  | 3) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Name Tree  |  4) Alphabet bean bag toss  |  5) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom puppet  | 6) Create a homemade playset  |  7) Mini tree craft using toilet paper rolls |  8) Make a coconut volcano

1) Make pigeons made out of toilet paper rolls  |  2) Chocolate Chip Cookies from The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?  |  3) Pigeon handprint from Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!  | 4 )Pigeon felt boards  |  5) Knuffle Bunny washing machine craft  |  6) A paper plate elephant craft from the Elephant & Piggy series 7) Knuffle Bunny  inspired nature walk and activity  | 8) Elephant & Piggy paper bag puppets


1) Button sewing from Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons  |  2) A Pete the Cat plate craft  |  3) A counting buttons activity based off Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons  |  4) Letter “C” Pete the Cat craft  |  5) Shoe sorting math activity inspired by Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes  |  6) Color match with Pete the Cat  |  7) Color sequencing  with Pete the Cat  | 8) Painting fun with Pete the Cat


1) Brown Bear Brown Bear color game using teddy grahams  |  2) Cloud art inspired by Little Cloud  |  3) A magnetic polka dot sensory bag inspired by Press Here  |  4) Create a map and binoculars after We’re Going on a Bear Hunt  |  5) Paper Bag Giraffes from Giraffes Can’t Dance   |  6) Dragons Love Tacos taco craft  |  7) Yarn art based off of Harold and the Purple Crayon | 8) Make a crayon picture frame based off The Day the Crayons Quit

What are your children’s favorite books?  Have you made done any activities based off books?