We have been taking part in My Little Bookcase’s The Little Book Adventure and really enjoyed challenge #2, leaving letters in library books for the next reader. This month’s challenge is to dine with a book character–so much fun! We could not wait to get started!
We actually chose which character we were going to dine with one night while we were eating. We have been doing Muffin Tin Mondays and the kids decided that a muffin tin meal would be perfect for Moose from If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff.
We decided on a night and sent Moose an invitation. We were thrilled when he accepted.
We looked back at and reread the story many times while we were planning our meal. My daughter cut out the invitation to resemble the muffin in the story and even added jam to the top to entice Moose. Planning to dine with a character was a great way to review story details and analyze the main character of the story.
They choose the food for the muffin tins very carefully. There was the food from the story–muffins, of course, jam, and blackberries. Then they decided to add lettuce leaves because they thought moose like to eat leaves and white cheese cut out to look like the ghost he dressed up as in the story.
Before Moose arrived in the kitchen we set out fancy place mats and added a vase of roses from the backyard. A very fancy dinner party!
Then it was time to eat! They had a blast talking about all of their food choices and remembering the different parts of the story. They each shared their favorite scene and decided that Moose’s favorite part was probably when he put on the puppet show because he looked like he was having so much fun.
We had a fantastic time dining with a book character! And just like the library letters they have already decided that this is definitely going to be an activity we do many more times!
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What a fantastic book to use for this project. We’ve read IF YOU GIVE A CAT A CUPCAKE, but we haven’t read this one yet.
I love this Muffin Tin Meal idea. How clever! I would have loved to be a part of that dinner conversation too.
On a totally unrelated note, I just LOVE your dining table. I’d love a round table but can’t find one I like anywhere. The colour is gorgeous too.
Can I take some of these photos and put them in our Project 4 Facebook Gallery?
Absolutely use any photo you want! I was just getting on to add to the linky and check out who everyone else dined with. These challenges are fantastic! We are still actually working on challenge 1 too. Everything we’ve done so far has not just been fun, but has really become a part of our lives!
And thanks for the table compliment! I actually bought the table and chairs used for $20 and then spray painted it and recovered the chairs. The top was a laminate so we used spray paint for wood, metal and plastic and is totally worked. 🙂
What a fabulous dinner party! Muffin tin meals are so much fun and they are a favourite at our house too! I am sure Moose loved it. I have ordered this book for my Son for his birthday because he has a little toy moose that he says is his best friend! I can’t wait to read it with him.
You will love it! It is one of our favorites. I see a Moose muffin tin in your future too! Thanks for stopping by!! I can’t wait to go see who everyone dined with. So fun!
we just read that book! it was so funny! the kids loved how it started back up again at the end! great idea to build on the story with this activity!
It is one of our favorites! You’ll have to try dining with a character, it’s tons of fun!
What a great idea. I’ve not read the book but it looks fab.
I lie the dining with a character idea too.
Thans for linking to the Sunday showcase
Thanks Rebecca! Dining with a character was even more fun than we thought it would be! Thanks for stopping by!
I thought you’d like to know I featured it on the Sunday Showcase: http://www.herecomethegirlsblog.com/2012/07/07/sunday-showcase-storybook-fun.html
Woo hoo!!!! Thanks so much!
I really love this idea, and will plan to do this with my wee ones soon. A couple of weeks ago, to go with the book, and before the kids woke up, I had made homemade blackberry jam without pectin from a recipe found on-line. When the kids woke up, they had helped me to make our yummy muffins, which was also a recipe I found on-line from Taste of Home. I want to make the puppets and puppet scenery and a big set of moose ears with my wee ones at some point too. This week or the next, I am ordering a stuffed moose from the Girl Scouts on-line store. So, we will need to wait until our stuffed moose is delivered before we can invite this moose to our very own muffin tin party 😉 Thanks for posting the idea with pictures of your party. It looks like your children had a divine time with their moose 🙂
Yay! I know you will have so much fun!!!