MITTEN PATTERN ACTIVITIES

WINTER MITTENS
 Using the middle sized mitten pattern cut out a pair of mittens.
Let your child decorate their mittens with a marking pen.
Give your child a 12” piece of yarn and help him staple or tape their two mittens to the yarn ends.
Hang the attached mittens up on the wall.
 
FUZZY RED MITTENS
 Using the middle sized mitten pattern cut out a heavy red paper mitten for your child.
Set out some red felt pieces.
Show your child how to pull the felt pieces at the corners and pull off small fuzzy pieces of felt.
Set out some glue and a small brush and have your child cover her mitten with glue.
Finally, have her place the fuzzy felt pieces all over her mitten.
Variation: Let child make her mitten whatever color she chooses.
 
MITTEN PUPPET
 Cut a mitten out of light poster board, using a medium sized mitten pattern.
Give your child some marking pens and have him make a face on his mitten.

Help your child attach a large craft stick to the bottom back of the mitten for a puppet handle.
Let your child use his mitten puppet when singing mitten songs or reciting mitten rhymes.
 
MATCHING MITTENS You will need a variety of colors of heavy paper for this activity.
Cut out 5 – 8 pairs of colored mittens, using the medium sized mitten pattern.
Mix up the mittens and let your child match up the mittens by colors.
Variation: Make the mittens from different patterns of heavy wrapping paper, or different types of material; such as felt, corduroy, denim, etc.
 
MITTEN HUNT
 Cut out three different colored pairs of mittens using the small mitten pattern.
Hide the paper mittens in your room.
Read the rhyme story “The Three Little Kittens” for your child.
Then have her go on a mitten hunt, looking the kittens lost
mittens.
 

MITTEN MATH RHYME The following rhyme is fun for children to act out or to use with a felt board.

            Three little kittens lost six little mittens,
            Oh, where, oh, where can they be?

            The three little kittens, looked for their mittens
            Out by the old oak tree.

            The three little kittens, found their mittens
            Hanging in the tree.
           
            The three little kittens, climbed up to their mittens
            And were as happy as they could be.
                                                                        Jean Warren
 
MITTEN COLOR RHYME
This is a fun rhyme to use on a felt board with colored felt mittens and other objects.

MY KITTEN’S MITTEN

My poor little kitten lost her mitten
And started to cry, “Boo-hoo.”
So I helped my kitten look for her mitten,
Her beautiful mitten of blue.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
Under my mother’s bed.
But alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,
For it was colored red.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
Under my father’s pillow.
But alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,
For it was colored yellow.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
On the hand of my brother’s toy clown.
But alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,
For it was colored brown.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
Under the laundry so clean.
But alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,
For it was colored green.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
Inside a grocery sack.
But alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,
For it was colored black.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
Under the kitchen sink.
But alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,
For it was colored pink.

I found a mitten just right for a kitten
Inside my favorite shoe.
And this time, the mitten was just the right mitten,
For it was colored blue!
                                      Jean Warren
                                      Warren Publishing House
 

MITTEN BOOK
Read the Ukrainian folktale  “The Mitten” to your children.  Then help them make a simplified version of the story into a mitten book.
Cut pieces of white typing paper in-half and stack up four pieces and staple them together for a book.
Write “My Mitten Book” on the cover.
Cut out six small mittens.
Give the book and the mittens along with some glue, and have your child glue one of the paper mittens on each page.
Then set out six animal stamps and have your child stamp one animal on each of his six mittens.
Encourage your child to retell “The Mitten Story” using their book and incorporating the six animals in the mittens into their story.
 
MITTEN PUZZLE
Cut out a large mitten shape from poster board using the large mitten pattern.
Cut the mitten into 6-12 pieces (depending on the ability of your child).
Mix up the pieces and have your child put the mitten back together.

 
 

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