Where The Wild Things Are - Lesson Plans

Happy Wednesday night! I have all of these ideas for the book Where The Wild Things Are by Mauric Sendax and I want to share them. These are all activities that can be made as lessons or spin-offs and follow-ups to lesson plans. 

I really like the idea of brainstorming as a class about what is a wild thing and what are emotions before getting into the activities to get a feel of what they know and what you can expand on.

• Creating a "Wild Thing" Scrapbook. Providing pictures of "Wild Thing" - what it looks like, where it lives, what is it's name, what does it like to do, is it a scary wild thing and other characteristics? (Incorporate lots of different materials.)
• Collage of where the wild things live. Expand on different environments.
• Creating a story about their own "Wild Thing". 
• Create a classroom book with everyone's wild thing and facts about their wild thing. 

These ideas give children the opportunity to express themselves and get creative.

• Express feelings through finger paint. 
• Play music that reflects emotions, provide instruments and allow them to do what feels right to them...have a wild rumpus! 
• Create a wall of emotions/feelings. Take pictures of the children making different faces and label it with the emotion they are trying to express. 
• Act like a wild thing. How do they move and what do they sound like?
• Make masks! Using different textures and a range of materials. Include them in a wild rumpus!
• Trace students body doing different wild thing poses. 

Incorporate some science -learn about plants, plant with your children, and create a class garden. ...a forest grew, and grew and grew...
Or have them research a wild animal they would like to learn more about. They can create books, a diorama, masks, compare the animals features to the characters in Where The Wild Things Are.

Hope you found this helpful! Share your ideas with me! 

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Did they survive? As you can tell my midnight projects are in need of some TLC. I used Self-Adhesive Paper to "laminate" them. They lasted through the tugging and pulling of the children fighting over them and crumbling them. But, right now they are bent up and look worn out only after two days.
Help I am running out of ideas for this RED/Letter A week!  (I haven't done any ONLY RED activities - besides an apple coloring.)
Most of the children are under 5 and need loads of attention. (A classroom of high energy students - imagine.) For a lot of them this is their first time around other children, and in a classroom setting. We can't passed the not sharing and tattletales to have a smooth activity.
I need to think of some team building activities for toddlers.
What are some good attention grabbers for toddlers?
Can you tell I'm new to this?