'Clothing' Storytime With Help From Pete the Cat!

We had a storytime 'makeup' week Friday so I decided to forgo our usual craft activity for something different. After reading our stories, we went on a scavenger hunt for Pete the Cat's missing buttons! I got the idea from a pin by Homegrown Friends (who used 'buttons' of a better size than I did but you work with what you got).

Books:
Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
Snowy Sunday by Phyllis Root
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin

Scavenger Hunt:
Homegrown Friends had the idea to add her child's initials to the buttons they were supposed to find. Since I had about 12 kids in storytime, I decided to just make three different kinds of buttons in 4 different colors and see if the kids could find all 4 colors in the same pattern for their shirts. It was tough for some of the 4 & 5 year-olds still, but I think they even learned a bit while trying to match the patterns. Here they are hunting for buttons!

They had a blast! Here's some Pete the Cat you can check out, or stay tuned as I just saw he's getting his own television show soon!

Pete the Cat on YouTube