Mouse Counting Activity Inspired by the book Mouse Count

Here’s a playful way to recreate the story Mouse Count with your child and sneak in a little math too with everyday items. This adorable book Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh creates an opportunity to learn about counting and also working together as a team.

This post contains affiliate links to amazon For this activity Ellen Stoll Walsh as part of our featured book activities for Virtual Book Club for Kids. She’s the author of several book but we’ve selected three of her books to featured this January. The books are Mouse Paint, Mouse Count, and Mouse Shapes. Have you read them yet?

Just in case you can’t wait to read the stories here are some videos of Mouse Count, Mouse Paint & Mouse Shapes read by others. Here’s a little bit of background about Ellen Stoll Walsh too.

Ellen Stoll Walsh Virtual Book Club for Kids

We selected to share about Mouse Count, as our featured story this month. It’s an adorable story about a snack and ten mice. The illustration of vivid and fun to anticipate what happens next with your child. After ready the story we decided it would be fun to recreate the story and practice our counting skills.

Recycled Lids Mouse Craft for Preschooler for Mouse Count Book Activity

Mouse Count Activity with Lids

Create the characters from Mouse Count with your child using household items for hours of play and storytelling.

Materials for Mouse Count Activity:

10 lids
Paper Towel Tube
Plastic Jar
Scrapbook Paper or Construction Paper {3 types}
Black Sharpie Marker
Glue Sticks
Scissors

Directions to Make Mouse Count Activity:

1. Gather items around your house to create this activity including 10 lids, and empty paper towel roll and a plastic jar. {All things you need to keep a stash of for everyday learning}

2.Using Scrapbook paper to cut out mouse ears and mouse nose

3.Cut out strips of the same paper to use for the snake

4. Using black market draw two eyes on each lid

5. Using the glue stick, attach the two ears and nose to each mouse. Now you have 10 mice!

6. Use the paper strips glue in a selected pattern onto the paper tube.

Mouse Count Book Activity with Recycled Lids for Preschoolers

7. Add a circle head, two eyes and a tongue to the snake.

Paper Snake Craft inspired by the book Mouse Count

8. Then use your remaining paper to cover your plastic jar {optional}

9. Are you ready to play? Encourage your child to retell the story using the mouse lids and paper snake and jar. The older they are start to add number recognition cards to the retelling also.