When the mouse saw the mitten lying in the snow, the mouse was shivering so.
Along the way,he dropped a warm mitten his grandmother had just knit for him.Īlong came a mouse.
One cold and frosty day, a boy went into the forest to collect firewood. The Mitten (version from: Heather Forest, storyteller) Optional: Make eight hole punches along the cuff and use yarn to attach each of the animals to the cuff – then you can get them out of the mitten more easily at the “aachoo” – and the pieces don’t get lost! – we found a 8-10” long piece of yarn tied in a 4” long loop prevents too much tangling.) Used coloring sheet: “design your own mitten” from Jan Brett’s website for younger kids.)ġ.2016 (added plastic bag snowball fight details here before craft)įrom: has a great idea of using chopped paper confetti for the penultimate verse! Craft: animals & mitten - we used hole punch and yarn for lacing mitten halves together (note: it’s easier to get the animals in and out if you don’t lace up the cuff portion – can copy on heavier paper, B&T chipboard cardboards are too hard to hole punch).The mole (snowshoe rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, fox, bear, mouse) squeezes in (2x)Īll the animals fly up high – out of the mitten in the snow! Help us please so we don’t freeze, the mitten in the snow. The mitten in the snow, the mitten in the snow, The Mitten in the Snow (original source unknown, tune: The Farmer in the Dell) On the last verse, sing the following and all fall down!.Ī tiny mouse crawls right in and…. Repeat for the other animals (snowshoe rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, fox, bear, mouse) As each animal’s name is called, a couple of children enter the circle and the circle gets tighter around them (the mitten is getting “crowded”). Sing (to: “Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star”) Have parents & children get in a circle & hold hands. And/or play “The Mitten Game” from A Storytime Year by Susan Dailey p.Act out story with puppets (old lady, boy) and masks from – we had drawn an enormous mitten on a white plastic tablecloth with thick black marker, placed it on the floor and parents held down the corners while the Iibrarian narrated the story and the children (holding laminated masks from the Jan Brett website), stepped on and huddled together, at the “aachoo” we all jumped off and threw the tablecloth into the air! Another possibility (suggested here is to have two kids (or grown ups) hold hands and become each side of the mitten, then let the kids crowd in between.).
Talk about folktale, show Tressalt version, then read Jan Brett’s.We’ll read this cozy tale, act out the story and then make our own well-stuffed mittens!
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