Dog's Colourful Day

Our latest book to have fun with is Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd.

You can find the felt board pattern at Making Learning Fun.

We read the book several times before I introduced the felt board pieces.

I initially used pompoms for the coloured dots.

They worked great for her little fingers,

and for matching to the pictures.

 But they rolled off the felt board when it was standing up.

So I made coloured felt circles for her to use.

They worked great, regardless of where she placed them on Dog.

A bonus was that they worked well for matching to the pompoms.

Her favourite part in the book was the yellow pollen falling off the bee.

I think it is because we were seeing so many bees in our raspberry bushes at the time.

Book - Doggies

Sandra Boynton is one of our favourite children's authors at the moment.

"Doggies" is one of my granddaughter's go-to books because she loves dogs.

To enhance the book I gathered ten toy dogs and one cat to set up as a play invitation.

My son in-law introduced the toy dogs with the book.

They decided which dogs would make which kind of bark.

If you haven't read the book then each dog has a distinctive bark

from woof to yip to n-n-n and more.

She loved all the dogs and playing with her dad.

Another day we moved them back into the bin with other props

and the play ideas grew.

It has been a fun way to introduce counting, size and build her vocabulary,

such as; big, little, long legs, running, sitting, same, different, etc.