SPOON

Meet Spoon…

Sean and I discovered the book Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal at the library. It is such a cute book about a little spoon that becomes disheartened and feels that fork, knife, and chopstick have a much better life than him. A very sweet message of loving yourself as you are resonates throughout the simple, but adorable book.

I think we may have read this book at least twice a day during the 2 weeks we checked it out. Since it had become a “favorite” I figured it would be a great book to bring to life with some art and sensory play. I scavenged through the kitchen and found a huge bowl, a bag of dry beans, a spoon, knife (butter knife), fork, and chop sticks. Pulling together an activity to extend a book is usually fairly simple and I try to use things I have around the house.

Art:

I cut out the shape of a spoon on white construction paper, and also some body parts (I loosely followed the illustration of the book- it doesn’t have to be perfect) and let Sean paint the spoon and glue on his own body parts.

 

 One of the hardest things for my Type A self to do is let go and let Sean do his own thing. I fight the urge not to correct him and place things where I want them to go. He did a great job using the glue himself and “correctly” placing the body parts.








 AND…BAM!!! Sean now has the main character! SPOON

Sensory:

Since Spoon was having a hard time realizing how special and useful he is, I supplied Sean with all the “characters” aka utensils and a bowl of beans. He spent about 30 minutes trying to scoop beans with each item and came to realize that SPOON was best suited for the task. A little problem solving action at work!

 

 

For slightly older kids you could purchase cheap wooden spoons ($store) and supply them with yarn, markers, buttons, etc. and have them create a puppet to use in a play. Use the puppet, and other utensils from the book to retell the story.