One afternoon last week, inspired by a book we'd checked out from the library, I planned a "Moon Afternoon" with the kids. We read stories about the moon, made moon cookies, created full-moon window decorations, learned about the moon on the internet, and listened to one of our all-time favorite CDs, Catch the Moon by Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell. We all learned so much and had a fun time doing so! Here's what we used:
Catch the Moon book/CD by Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell
The Moon Might Be Milk by Lisa Shulman.
Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
We also should have included one of our other favorites: When The Moon Is High by Alice Schertle.
For the project, we traced simple bat shapes on black construction paper and glued them to yellow-construction-paper moons that the kids had cut out. Not the craftiest of projects, but simple enough for Jake to do and they made good Halloween window decorations.
For the project, we traced simple bat shapes on black construction paper and glued them to yellow-construction-paper moons that the kids had cut out. Not the craftiest of projects, but simple enough for Jake to do and they made good Halloween window decorations.
The "moon cookies" are my mom's Snickerdoodle recipe - yum!Grandma Ann's Snickerdoodles:
Cream:
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
Add:
2 eggs
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
Add:
2 3/4 cups flour
Roll into balls; roll balls in cinnamon sugar. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
Some great websites for teaching kids all about the moon:
