Hubbard's Cupboard is an excellent place to look for other ideas and activities related to the book
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. On this website, there are many creative crafts that can be used for fun art projects. There are activities involving math for the teachers that would like to include this subject with the book. In addition, to wrap this specific site up, the website uses all its activities at a family night where the children can showcase what they have been doing and include their parents in the learning process.
Laura Joffe Numeroff is the author of the book
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It would be an excellent idea for teachers that are about to use this lesson plan to look up this interesting author and learn more about her. This maybe helpful to tell your students and could possibly awake more interest in the book for uninterested children.
Circular stories are stories that end where they began.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is one of these stories. So instead of doing the creative sequence in this lesson plan, teachers can use this site to make practice circular stories with their children. It all depends on what the teacher would rather do, both activities are beneficial to the children.
TeacherVision has many creative activities that a teacher could use instead of some of the activities here. However, some of these activities would take more then 50 minutes for younger children so use this site with caution. Also, the activities included on this site for
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie are more fun bonus games rather then activities strictly based on learning.
Virtual Vine includes many activities for this same book. Some of the activities are the same as are listened on other websites; however, there are also many different ones. A lot of these activities do not talk specifically about the story, but are including objects like mice and cookies.
This
Guided Reading of
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie includes a lot more interaction among the students and the teacher before the story even begins. This could be used for a class that is more likely to sit still for a longer period of time as compared to 1st graders. Even though this activity seems very long, the children would enjoy it because of the availability they have in the discussion to talk about themselves.
This lesson takes a spin on
Cause and Effect which would be very beneficial for older students reading the book. This lesson goes in depth not only talking about the cause and effect in the book, but also general life situations where cause and effect happens. Very beneficial!
This
teaching site has more activities focused on younger children reading
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. There are activities such as: memory games, more coloring pages, and special crafts.
Find other "If You Give.." books and activities on-line at this
website. This website is used on the Student Activity Page; however, there are many more resources that can be used on this page then are assigned. Every character is included as well as summaries of each story.
If you, as a teacher, are more interested in
If You Give a Pig a Pancake as your central story, visit:
Educator's Reference to find lesson plans specifically focused on this story.