Friends at School

Our new language arts program has a 3 week unit entitled "Friends at School". In order to supplement the programs ideas, I looked around on the internet and discovered some fun activities surrounding Eric Carle's book Do You Want To Be My Friend?. In this story a mouse unsuccessfully tries to make friends with a variety of animals. After reading the story and acting it out, we made this art project. The students chose an animal to paint with watercolors. The next day (after I had cut the animals out) they glued the "grass" (it is actually a snake), added their animal, and then cut and assembled a mouse. The last step was to add the speech bubble. They all came out really cute.