stART ~ Groundhog Stays Up Late

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This week we read Groundhog Stays Up Late, by Margery Cuyler.  This is a cute story about a little groundhog that does not want to sleep through winter and instead decideds to play.  Soon he realizes that it is not fun alone and tricks his friends into thinking it is spring so they will wake up early.  After reading this book I was planning on making a craft to go along with it, however Emily’s Nursery School teacher beat me to it.  Not only did she beat me to it, they also read the exact same book at school and have a really cute song to go with it! 

Since this was competed at school I do not have any pictures of Emily working on her project.

To make this puppet they used 1 whole paper plate and 1 half of a paper plate.  Emily colored the whole paper plate blue and the half of a paper plate brown.  The plates were stapled together.  Then Emily glued on the black shadow of the groundhog and the sun.  Finally a brown groundhog was glued onto a popsicle stick and placed between the two paper plates so that he can move up and down to see his shadow.

  On the back of the puppet is the song that they children sang to go with it.

To start for the first verse the groundhog was pushed down all the way hiding between the two paper plates.

For the second verse he is raised up to peek out of the hole.

For the third verse he is all of the way out.