Easy Crafts with Where the Wild Things Are

Easy Crafts are easy to do with Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak won the coveted Caldecott Award for this book, which he  definitely deserved  for this book.  It  brilliantly combines the words and pictures perfectly.

Where the Wild Things Are has recently been made into a full length film and I feel that when books are made into films it is very important for children to be  familiar with the  original book.   Many changes are made to stories when they are made into movies.  Whenever possible, I try to familiarize my children with a book before seeing the movie based on it, using easy crafts to try really cement it into their brains.

Maurice Sendak has said that Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There are some what of a trilogy about  how children grow and mature  as they deal with changes and the  anger they may feel.  He said that these three books are about the same theme, which is how children master their many different feelings. There is no question that children have many different feelings to learn about, understand and master.

Where the Wild Things Are, really shows how a child can get completely  lost in his or her  imagination, but that eventually will hunger for security and, of course, food!

When I have presented this book at Storytime, the kids have loved roaring like monsters and stomping around.  Eventually though,  just like Max, they eventually want to get on with the tasks at hand, which are finishing the stories and making the crafts.

Below are two large images. One is a background and the other some monsters like the ones in Where the Wild Things Are.    After the kids have colored the background and the monsters, we cut out the monsters and stick them onto the background., making a sort of 3-D like picture.

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