These Brown Bear Brown Bear activities for preschool printables are great for extending and exploring a much-beloved book through hands-on activities, while working on storytelling skills, color recognition, vocabulary words, and more.
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? is an extremely popular book, that young children love to read over and over again- And for GOOD reason. This book is fantastic! The catchy tone, anticipation, and little bit of memory use are some of the reasons this book is exciting.
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See
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The Brown Bear book by Eric Carle is a childhood staple in everyone’s homes and classrooms. It is a catchy and fun children’s picture book with repetitive text and bold illustrations that children (especially toddlers) adore. This is good for teaching kids color identification, color words and sequencing. It is similar to the Lady Who Swallowed A Fly book, which we also have a fun activity pack for called Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly Activities, in that the repetition is the main reason children like it.
They like to “read” it along with you. We love adding the Felt story pieces to our flannel board as we read the book.
Our brown bear brown bear printables pack includes a variety of math and literacy activities as well as lots of fun color identification and sequencing activities.
Materials Required:
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You will first need to purchase the Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See book.
Supplies We Used
- Card stock(to print everything out on.)
- A pocket chart
- Write and wipe Dry Erase Pockets
- Laminator with pockets
Brown Bear Brown Bear Activities
Providing story extension activities, like this printable pack, have excellent benefits for children. Not only does it help get children excited for reading but it helps bring the story to life more. It helps children with reading comprehension skills for the future. This is just one example of a wonderful story extension activity for Brown Bear, Brown Bear that your kids will love!
Above you will see some of our printable puppets, writing word cards and story strips. Have children put the story in order.
The activities come in color and black and white, for your preference.
Learn the names and colors of the animals. Use the word chart to place pom poms of various colors to match them on the same colored animal.
Those alphabet bears provide a fun alphabet hunt. Identify the letter on the card. In the case above, it is the letter Aa. Students will place a bingo chip, piece of paper, or circle the letter Aa.
There are a variety of math activities included too.
The color caves is a color-matching activity where children need to match the colored bear to the same color cave. If you have counting bears at home you can substitute them in for the bears in the color caves.
There’s a count the room activity where you can place the numbers around the room. Once your student or child identifies the number on the card through counting or reading the number, they can then trace the number on their recording sheet.
There are count and clip cards that are great for those fine motor skills and a count the objects including counting the blue horse, red bird, yellow fish and green frog.
There are a few art activities like dot marker activities, fingerprint art, and a brown bear craft.
After reading the brown bear story, it’s a great time to talk about bears and learn more about them.
The dot marker activities can be used with stickers as well as pom poms instead of dot markers.
Next, there are story sequencing activities that relate to the Brown Bear Book. Children can practice their scissor skills by cutting out the animals before placing them in the correct order they appear in the book.
This printable pack also includes a variety of math activities such as number puzzles, counting to ten cards, I Spy fun, count and clip cards, simple addition and subtraction.
All the regular fun activities such as tracing the lines, maze, fingerprint activities, odd one out, what comes next? And size sequencing cards are also included. The fun Brown Bear Brown Bear activities include art, do a dot, q tip painting, play dough and more!
Brown Bear Activities
- Vocabulary Words – Work on vocabulary words with this word chart and then explore the words through tracing worksheets, cut and paste pages, memory matching cards, pocket chart cards, and more.
3. Color Caves – Match the colored bears to the correct color cave.
5. Story Sequencing Craft and Activities – Discuss the story and sequence with this fun Brown Bear Craft, sequencing strips, and story order page.
2. Alphabet Bear Hunt – Place a Bingo chip marker or circle the matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
4. Easy Reader Mini Book – Color the pictures and then read the book with this Easy Reader mini book.
6. Discussion Pages – Discuss bears, sheep, and the Brown Bear Story.
7. Activity Pages – We included a variety of activity pages that focus on math, fine motor skills, and literacy. Work on the maze, identify which picture is different, and more.
8. Brown Bear Puppets – Create craft stick puppets by coloring in the pictures, cutting them out, and gluing them to a craft stick.
9. Puzzles – Work on matching pictures, word building, and skip counting with these fine motor puzzles
11. Tracing Pages – Trace the word and the dashed lines.
10. Count The Room – Hide the number cards around or place them in a sensory bin. As you find a number, or make a pair, trace the number on your recording sheet.
12. Count and Clip Cards – Count the pictures and clip the number. This set includes numbers 1 through 8.
13. Addition + Subtraction Cards – Solve the equations using the cards and recording sheets.
14. Cutting Activities – Cut on the dashed line. For younger kids we included cutting strips with thick grey lines for students to work on their beginning cutting skills.
15. Bear Craft – Color in, cut, and put together a bear.
16. Pony Bead Color Matching Cards – Tape a colored pipe cleaner to the card and then have students work on fine motor skills to thread the same color pony beads through the pipe cleaner.
17. Math Link Shape Matching Bears – Match the shape by connecting the pieces with a math link. You can leave out the math link if you prefer, or to make it harder write a number under the cave so students can add a specific number of math links between the bear and the cave.
18. Ten Frame Puzzles and Activity Pages
19. Patterns
20. Alphabet Formation Cards – Trace the letters using the arrow and dashed lines.
21. Art Activities – Use dot markers, circle stickers, or trace color and cut to work on these art pages.
22. 3 Part Cards – Match the word and picture to the whole card.
24. Pocket Chart Cards – Use a pocket chart to discuss the characters in the story.
23. Size Sequencing Cards – Place the cards according to smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest.
25. Brown Bear Worksheets – We included a variety of worksheets that work on fine motor skills, math, and literacy skills.
We absolutely LOVE this felt set and often use it for storytelling and story sequencing. You can find Connie’s other wonderful felt story sets here.
Brown Bear Worksheets
We include a variety of differentiated worksheets including shape tracing, cut and paste worksheets, dot marker pages, pattern worksheets, ten frame worksheets, and more.
WHERE TO GET THE BROWN BEAR ACTIVITY
GET THE BROW BEAR EXTENSION ACTIVITY HERE
Check out these Color Recognition Activities For Preschoolers or make this simple bear soup.
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Really great resources.