Tennis shoes…boots…high heel shoes…flip flops. There are so many different types of shoes. Which is your favorite?
Books:
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
Centipede’s 100 Shoes by Tony Ross
Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job by Stephen R. Swinburne
Click Here to Find These Books on the Heights Library Catalog
Rhymes & Fingerplays:
My Shoes (tune: Skip to My Lou)
I have two shoes, how about you?
I have two shoes, how about you?
I have two shoes, how about you?
Stomp with your shoes like I do.
Sing the song again and substitue “stomp” in the last line with hop, skip, jump…
One, Two, Tie My Shoe
One, two tie my shoe
Three, four shut the door
Five, six pick up sticks
Seven, eight lay them straight
Nine, ten big fat hen (works well with a hen puppet if you have one!)
Let’s get up and count again!
Five Pairs of Shoes (I printed out and colored 5 shoes for this rhyme)
Five pairs of shoes in the shoe store
Someone bought the red ones, now there are four.
Four pairs of shoes for all to see
Someone bought the blue ones, now there are three.
Three pairs of shoes shiny and new
Someone bought the yellow ones, now there are two.
Two pairs of shoes they look like fun
Someone bought the pink ones, now there is one.
One pair of shoes at the end of the day
I bought the green ones, hip hip hooray!
Art Project:
For our art project, I used a coloring page I found in a Google image search (search “Pete the Cat coloring pages”). To make the project more interactive, I cut out Pete’s shoes and traced them on colored construction paper: blue, red, and brown, so that the kids could re-enact the story by giving Pete different colored shoes. Older children were also able to practice writing by filling in the blank to describe Pete’s shoes. My example is shown below:
