The Mitten-Litterature activity

I read a recommendation somewhere for this book and adding this activity to it. I decided to do it to kill an hour before bed. It was so much fun!!! Raelee got to sew a mitten together (felt) with a real needle and some yarn. We got to talk about how the felt was recycled plastic bottles and what that meant, geography (the book is a Ukrainian folk tale), art (the pictures in the book were fantastic), prediction (what animal will crawl in next?), and other things.
This is where I pulled the activity from:
The Mitten



Her supper happy face. She was excited that she got to sew!
She laughed so hard when that bear wanted to climb into the mitten along with the other animals.



Silly face..LOL

Howling like a wolf!
See my mitten?
The rabbit climbed in the mitten.
Here is the Ukraine


And here is where Granny lives. (Yes Granny, I know she needs a manicure..LOL)These are her favorite pages. See how pretty the art was?





The activity was based on the book by Jan Brett called The Mitten