Book of Crafts - First Grade

The creative arts are an essential part of the primary school education. By using the activities in these books, you can strengthen fine-motor skills and foster creativity and confidence.

This Book of Crafts has a craft project for each literature read-aloud in the First Grade Read-Aloud set. The crafts in this book have been carefully chosen to promote skill growth and coordination, but the most important component is fun.

Crafts included for each of these books:

• A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
• The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C. M. Millen 
• A House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
• Miss Twiggley’s Tree by Dorothea Warren Fox 
• Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber 
• A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus by David A. Adler
• Katy No-Pocket by Emmy Pane
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field, Illustrated by Johanna Westerman
• The Caboose Who Got Loose by Bill Peet
• The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
• The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
• The Very First Thanksgiving Day Rhonda Gowler Greene
• Choo Choo by Virginia Lee Burton
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg 
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 
• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• The Moon Shines Down by Margaret Wise Brown 
• Norman the Doorman by Don Freeman
• Pickle-Chiffon Pie by Jolly Roger Bradfield 
• The Star-Spangled Banner Illustrated by Peter Spier
• Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books by Kay Winters
• White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
• Patrick – Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie de Paola
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
• Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky
• Rechenka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco
• The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema
• Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Ga’g
• The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• A Time to Keep by Tasha Tudor 
• Saint Francis and the Wolf by Jane Langton, Illustrated by Ilse Plume