If you are looking for some engaging activities for this fun story about being yourself, you have come to the right place! With these ‘Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon’ Activities, children in PreK, Kindergarten or Grade 1 will develop their fine-motor, sequencing and adjective recognition skills.
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon Activities
What you’ll need:
- The Little Mouse The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear Activities Printable
- Coloring Pencils/ markers
- Scissors
- Glue
- Laminator and laminating sheets
Activity 1: Showing Kindness
During meeting time, discuss ways of showing kindness to a new friend in class or to Molly Lou Melon. Write these down on the whiteboard. Hand out the activity sheets. Children write down ways to show kindness in the circles, then color the picture. Write all the children in your classroom’s names on the pictures of the pennies and place in a jar. Every morning during meeting time, each child chooses a penny and then does something nice for that child during the day. At the end of the day, they write down what they have done during the day.
Activity 2: Sequencing
How to use this resource:
Children cut out the pictures of the interactions between Molly Lou and Ronald and paste them in the correct order. These are as follows: 1 – Ronald Dunkin called Molly Lou a ‘Shrimpo’, 2 – He called her a ‘Bucky Tooth Beaver’, 3 – Ronald said she sounded like a ‘sick duck’, 4 – He said Molly made the snowflake all wrong, 5 – Ronald gave Molly Lou a penny.
Activity 3: Class Book
How to use this resource:
Talk about ways to show kindness to your fellow classmates and to new children. Hand out the ‘I would …..’ activity sheets. Children draw a picture of how they plan to be kind and then rite about it. If they can’t write yet, the teacher can write it for them. Assemble into a class book, then read it out loud during meeting time.
Activity 4: Vocabulary
How to use this resource:
Print out and laminate the vocabulary cards. Print out and copy the vocabulary activity sheets. Children assemble the vocabulary flip book, then cut out and paste the definitions underneath the correct picture. On the last 2 pages there is space for children to find words in the text that they want to know the meaning of. They write these in the space provided, draw a picture of it and write the definition.
Activity 5: Character Traits
How to use this resource:
Students compare Molly Lou to Ronald Durkin by pasting the correct adjectives into the Venn Diagram. When they are done, they complete the two Character Traits Cut-and-Paste sheets
Activity 6: Story Elements Flip Book
After print out and copying the activity sheets, children cut out the different parts, then assemble. After gluing the pieces together, the children draw the characters (Mary Lou, Ronald, Grandma), the setting (school), the problem (Ronald being a bully) and the solution (Mary Lou just continues to be her kind, strong, confident self). They then draw or write a sentence about their favorite part.
Activity 7: I am special Flower Craft
Print out and copy the activity sheets on A4 paper.
Students write their names in the circle. Ask children to think of everything that makes them special, then to write these words onto the petals. Students cut out the parts of the flower and paste it onto the A3 sheet.
For a whole month worth of All About Me Themed Printables, Centers and Activities, click on the image below.
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