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!