I love searching through the stacks at our library and pulling out Halloween themed books. Last week I brought a big pile home and surprised the girls with a bunch of books to read. I love holiday books. What I love even more is the creative ways that we can use books to inspire crafty activities (wait until you see the spook-tacular books and activities featured below). One of the books in our pile was called “Thelonious Monster’s Sky-High Fly Pie” by Judy Sierra. In this book Thelonious prepares a trap/pie where hundreds of flies get stuck. Once stuck, he invites all of his monster friends over for a piece of pie. However, poor Thelonious forgot to bake the pie! The flies all up and fly away…with the pie. This fun book had my girls thinking about flies and pies, so they made fly pies.
I made a batch of The Imagination Tree’s no bake play dough, seasoned with cinnamon. We pulled out a couple of pie plates, forks and knives to use.
Instead of flies, the girls searched through the garden for plants to use…black eyed susan’s and japanese anemone seed pods.
They worked perfectly!
Most importantly the girls used a cardboard box for an oven and baked their pies. Slices of fly pie for everyone!
Check out these other incredibly fun Halloween books and activities…
Toddler Approved had fun creating a scarecrow puzzle after reading, “The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything.”
“The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything” also inspired Playing with Words 365 to create a collection of speech and language activities.
So many amazing ways to play with “5 Little Pumpkins” can be found over at Playing with Words 365.
More “5 Little Pumpkins” fun over at Creative Family Fun, adorable finger pumpkins to play along with.
And one more for “Five Little Pumpkins“…a variety of activities, including a fun name recognition game with Toddler Approved.
Create your own pumpkin patch collage inspired by “Boo To You” with KC Edventures.
Fill up the old lady’s belly along with Playing With Words 365, inspired by “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat.“
“Duck and Goose Find A Pumpkin” had All Done Monkey making a pumpkin scavenger hunt and matching game.
“Brooms Are For Flying” inspired The Pleasantest Thing to have their very own spooky movement costume parade.
Well, I think I’m doing this afternoon…heading to the library to get some more Halloween books. What is your favourite Halloween book?
Terri Thompson says
October 2, 2012 at 9:27 amLove this roundup! Thanks for including our post!
Jacquie F. says
October 2, 2012 at 10:00 amI love your oven! So creative 🙂 and great looking pie (yum). Thanks for including us in this wonderful round-up!
Katie says
October 2, 2012 at 1:04 pmFANTASTIC roundup! I just shared it on my Facebook page! Thanks so much for featuring our posts! 🙂
alldonemonkey.com says
October 4, 2012 at 1:18 amI love the fly pie! And I can’t wait to try the other activities! Thanks for including us! Will be sharing on FB tomorrow.
Esther CraftoArt says
October 4, 2012 at 8:48 amI like the idea of using a cardboard box as oven! and the fly pie sounds fun! Thank you for including us in the roundup!
Marissa D says
October 4, 2012 at 2:02 pmFun fun fun
what a great list of ways to teach in fun ways with great books as resources
if you would like I’d love for you to link up with my cozy book hop
Marissa
http://forfunreadinglist.blogspot.com
Carolyn Elbert says
October 4, 2012 at 11:19 pmWe love activities based on books. Thank you for this round up full of great ideas to try. And for including our Halloween parade.
Personal Trainer Guy Putney says
January 20, 2015 at 1:17 pmGreat stuff, I’ll keep this in mind for next Halloween!