Paper Plate Bears

We got the book Chaucer's First Winter by Stephen Krensky from a box of Cheerios cereal.  You probably know that Cheerios has a program called Spoonfuls of Stories and it includes them putting books in the cereal boxes.  I eat a lot of Cheerios (yes, I said "I") so I usually buy the boxes of cereal with all of the different titles to add to our library.

Chaucer's First Winter is about a bear named Chaucer who knows that bears are supposed to sleep through the winter, but he is having so much fun making snowballs and sliding across the ice that he stays awake to enjoy all of the fun that winter brings.  This book is really cute.  We enjoyed the story, and the illustrations are perfectly adorable.  I really like that while Chaucer thinks his parents are asleep in the cave, they are actually watching him from a distance.  This book is a keeper.

C and R made paper plate bears to go along with the book.  First, they each colored a paper plate brown.  I cut circle ears out of brown paper lunch bags for them to tape onto the back of the plates.

They colored the inside of the ears black.  C and R glued on googly eyes.

Then, I trimmed clear plastic containers and filled them with brown paper scraps.  We taped these to the front of the paper plate faces.

C and R glued on button noses and drew mouths with a permanent marker.

Finally, we made each bear a paper scarf by folding a long rectangular piece of paper,

cutting fringe, and adding some decoration with crayon.

The scarves were taped and glued in place.  These bears will be nice and warm through the winter!

We made these bears before bed and R was too tired to pose with her bear!

 I am linking this to stArt at A Mommy's Adventures and Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art.