Here’s a great story to follow-up the nursery rhyme about “The Three Little Kittens.” You can reinforce phonological awareness, colors, predicting, and retelling a story with this activity.
Directions: Cut pairs of mittens from felt or fun foam. (You will need brown, white, black, red, blue, green, orange, purple, and yellow mittens for the story.) Place the appropriate mitten on the flannel board as you tell the story.
*After children have heard the story several times, encourage them to fill in the missing color word.
*You could also pass out the mittens for the children to hold up at the correct time.
Hint! Make a flannel board by stapling the sides of a file folder together. Glue felt to one side. Insert the pieces inside and glue the story to the back.
The three little kittens lost their mittens, their brand new mittens of blue.
Let’s help the kittens look for their mittens so they won’t go, “Boo hoo!”
We found some mittens just right for kittens by the bedroom light.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for the are colored white.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens in our school backpack.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored black.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens in the washing machine.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored green.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens by the puppet clown.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored brown.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens under baby’s bed.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored red.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens by the crayon that’s orange.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored orange.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens by a box of Jello.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored yellow.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens by the maple syruple.
“Boo hoo, the mittens are not the right mittens for they are colored purple.”
We found some mittens just right for kittens in a tennis shoe.
“Hooray, the mittens are just the right mittens for they are colored blue!”
Mitten Hunt - Use the mittens to play a matching game. Hide one of each mitten in the room as the children close their eyes. Pass out the other mittens to the children and have them “meow” as they hunt around the room for the matching mitten.