Materials Needed: Printable (free download below), scissors, glue, and coloring supplies Students can draw and/or write a response to the prompt, “If you give me a cookie, then I’ll ask for…” Children will practice individual reader response, writing, and drawing through this exercise. Materials Needed: Printable (free download below) and writing/drawing supplies This would be fun as a small group activity to review letter names or sounds. Have children cover their letters with their corresponding dot letter stickers. Put letters all over the cookie and then write the matching letters on dot stickers. Materials Needed: White butcher paper, markers, dot stickersĭraw a large cookie on butcher paper. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Activities Alphabet Cookie

This story makes a fun whole-group read aloud! Follow up with the literacy-focused activities below. Innocently enough, the little mouse requests a glass of milk after he eats a cookie, but then his demands begin piling up and exhausting his new human friend.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff is the perfect combination of silly and sweet and will capture your young readers’ attention easily. Check out the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book activities for fun and interactive ways to extend your students’ understanding and enjoyment of this classic and entertaining tale. Have you ever had a day where everything just snowballed-one thing after another? That’s exactly what happens to the little boy in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie after he strikes up a friendship with a mouse and offers him a cookie.

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