The Mixed Up Spider Story featuring Nick Sharratt Virtual Book Club for Kids

This month’s featured author is Nick Sharratt. His books are bold and fun! He even has his own website Nick Sharratt! I love the section on his blog for Questions and Answers , I think it’s important for our children to connect with authors as much as they can. 

Why? It helps to give a bigger purpose to the books they are reading and also to inspire them to create their own books and illustrations.

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Make Your Own Mixed Up Spider Book

This month we focus on A Cheese and Tomato Spider by Nick Sharratt. It’s a playful book that you interchange the pages to create a new storyline.  Some of the combos are quite funny. Scholastic shares a printable for you to create your own mixed up character that we used but then we were inspired to create our own book based on the spider, it’s been a spider type of month for us.

Here’s how you can make your Mixed up Spider Book

Materials

• Paper
• Markers
• Scissors
• Imagination

Directions

• Brainstorm ideas for how many different combinations you could make for your spider (or any animal)
• Draw an image for each idea
• Write the text to go along with your image independently or together on the computer depending on your child’s level of writing
• Assemble your book together by place your assorted creations at the top above your carefully created spider at the bottom.
• Read and have fun with your new self made book of Mixed up Spiders.

Here’s a Free Spider Printable I’ve created for you

We focused more on color words for our book but you could focus on anything, the older kids love the funnier ideas. What will inspire your mixed up spider book?

Don’t forget to get out more of Nick Sharratt’s books, they are so much fun! Plus below are tons of activities to do with them from the Virtual Book Club for Kids.

You can also find loads of Virtual Book Club ideas organized by author and topic on our Virtual Book Club for Kids Pinterest Board that we just started and will continue to be adding to!

Come sign up for our Virtual Book Club Newsletter too and check out our new Virtual Book Club for Kids blog!

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