Keep reading for some fun preschool activities based on Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin. These activities are part of our Storytime Club, which includes activities inspired by 12 books to keep your little one learning ALL year long! To learn more about our Storytime Club, click here!
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GIGGLE, GIGGLE, QUACK ACTIVITIES
Do you teach a farm theme in your preschool classroom? Or do you love doing farm activities with your littles at home? If so, you definitely need to add Giggle Giggle Quack by Doreen Cronin to your farm books! This is such a fun book that will have your preschoolers rolling with laughter!
In this story (which is a follow-up to Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type), Farmer Brown is headed off on vacation, so his brother Bob is keeping an eye on the farm. Bob keeps finding notes that he thinks are from Farmer Brown, so he does what they say…like order pizza for the animals and wash the pigs in the bathtub! But the notes aren’t from Farmer Brown…they’re from Duck!
Your little ones are going to love this fun, light-hearted story and have a great time laughing along with the animals!
Click on the picture below to learn more about this funny book!
Check out these fun activities to bring this story to life for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten littles. These are great to use at home with your own kiddos or in your early childhood classroom. If you’re interested, all the printables can be found here.
Click here to check out the song I sing before reading this book!
LITERACY: CRACK THE CODE
Since Duck writes notes in this story, I thought it would be fun if he wrote a note to your little one…but it has to be a secret code so Farmer Brown doesn’t read it. That’s why the Giggle, Giggle, Quack literacy activity is Crack the Code!
Your little ones will look at the letters on the picture and match up those letters with the correct symbols on the right-hand side. When they’re done, you can help them read the secret message Duck is sending to them!
MATH: SHEEP ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION
It’s so important that our little ones have a conceptual understanding of addition and subtraction. What does 3 + 1 actually mean? This activity will help them with those basic math building blocks they’ll need for kindergarten.
Have your little ones choose either an addition or subtraction card, then use cotton balls on the sheep mat to solve the problem.
For extra fun, tape the sheep mat onto the wall, and then cover it with contact paper (sticky side out). That way, your little ones can stick the cotton balls to the contact paper to solve the problems.
FINE MOTOR: CORN KERNEL LETTERS
The fine motor activity for this story is a mix of literacy and fine motor skills. One of the early learning standards for preschool is to form letters out of a variety of materials. So I thought forming letters out of corn kernels would be the perfect way to work on this skill during the fall!
This packet includes letter mats for all 26 letters (uppercase and lowercase next to each other). Your little one will use corn kernels to form the shapes of the letters. For an extra challenge, they can try and from the shape of each letter without using the mats to guide them. This makes it MUCH harder!
GROSS MOTOR: CORRAL THE FARM ANIMALS
I haven’t met a preschooler yet who doesn’t LOVE playing with balloons. They are so much fun, and when you get to draw on them, that’s even better! For this activity, have your little one draw farm animal faces on balloons, like pigs, duck, and cows. Then have them corral those farm animals!
CRAFT: DUCK MASK
Since Duck is the main character of Giggle, Giggle, Quack, I thought making a duck mask would be perfect to inspire some pretend play after reading this story. This one is super cute (and easy!), plus you can sneak in some fine motor practice, too.
SNACK: PIG PANCAKES
One of my kids’ favorite breakfasts are pig bagels, which we make in the fall to go along with the book Harvest Party. So for this book, I thought we would use the same idea but apply it to pancakes…and they turned out super cute! Pig pancakes might just be our new favorite breakfast!
READING RESPONSE: JOURNAL WRITING & BOOKMARK
To wrap up this unit, you can have your little one write and draw about their favorite part of Giggle, Giggle, Quack. I’ve also included a bookmark that your little one can keep forever to remember this story and the main message: Be Silly & Have Fun!
GIGGLE, GIGGLE, QUACK ACTIVITY PACK
All of the activities in this post can be found in my Giggle, Giggle, Quack Activity Pack, which can be found in my shop here!
Have you read Giggle, Giggle, Quack yet? Do you have any fun activities that would be great to add to our list? Comment below or find me on Instagram [@littleslovelearningblog] and let me know!
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Happy Learning!
