stART: The Bad-Tempered Ladybird

For stART this week Andy and I read The Bad-Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. This gorgeous book was part of Andy's birthday present from his Gran.



"The bad-tempered ladybird picks fights with every animal it meets, but soon learns the importance of friends. In this humorous story, Eric Carle explores the concepts of size and time through brightly coloured pictures."

The animals he meets each have their own flap similar to The Very Hungry Caterpillar book also by Eric Carle. Each flap has a clock at the top with the time which he meets the animal which is great for older kids.


So I printed out the templates for this ladybird craft and Andy coloured it in with red and black...


He also glued some eyes onto the face and I covered a cd with red construction paper for the base of the ladybird...


Then Andy glued on the wings, face and black dots...


The finished project...


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stART: The Thunderstruck Stork

For stART this week we read The Thunderstruck Stork by David J. Olson. It's about a stork that has an accident and does his work all wrong by delivering the wrong babies to the wrong parents e.g. the frog parents receive an elephant baby, the sparrows receive a pig. But when he wants to correct his errors after his mind being set right through being struck by lightning he realizes the families he made love each other and were perfect. It's a captivating story as the text rhymes in a fun way and Andy and I had a great many laughs over who receives what baby.

So Andy cut up some feathers...


Glued them onto a printed out stork...


Glued on an eye and colored in...


And here is his finished stork... (He says those words - the squiggly lines - says "Webster the stork".


Here's the cover of the book...


And one of the delightful illustrations (the sparrow parents trying to help their piglet to fly)...


To see other stART books and projects go to A Mommy's Adventures.