IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE

MEMORY ACTIVITY

• Print out the "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" template of the mouse for each child.  
    
• Flip through the pages of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" before reading them the story.  This allows the kids to "read" the pictures and guess what's happening.  It's amazing how much more they remember is you do this
    
• Read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" aloud
    
• Hand out the template and have the children write down all the things the mouse asked for 
  (Younger children:  ask the children to draw pictures of all the things they remember the mouse asking for).

IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE TEMPLATE

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