Elephant and Piggie Preschool Theme

Today we had an Elephant and Piggie themed preschool!  My son has been requesting this theme for a little bit.  We really love the Elephant and Piggie beginner reader books written by Mo Willems.  You can find them on Amazon here.  Check out Mo Willem's site here. We do not own them all, but as you can see we own many.  We've been collecting them for about three years now.

My son has been especially interested in them lately because he has discovered that he can read the majority of the words in them and they have cute illustrations and fun humor.  Here is a comic strip printable to make your own elephant and piggie scene.

Check out Pigeon Presents for more online fun!  There is also a section for parents and educators that includes kits that have fun activities like the ones below.

We also made puppets.  I did the drawing and cutting, and my son did the gluing.  The idea came from here.

We've had a good time with these puppets making up our own elephant and piggie stories to act out.

Mo Willems Birthday Party

My son turned 5 last week and he wanted to have a Mo Willems birthday party.  He loves anything Mo Willems writes, but most especially the pigeon books and elephant and piggie series.

 Here is the pigeon cake I made.  I used a regular oreo and a mini oreo for the eye and banana runts for the beak.

 We also had some cupcakes with images of the pigeon, Gerald, and Piggie.

 My oldest two boys helped me with the decorations.  They love drawing pigeons and making up their own stories with those characters.  Check out Pigeon Presents for a lot of printables, online games, and more fun.  The little word bubble printable you can find here.

 I placed books around the place for some added fun too and made some pigeon stick puppets.

 We had hot dogs and macaroni and cheese.  Inspired by the Pigeon of course.  I cooked my hot dogs on low in the slow cooker for 4 hours.  They tasted good.

 My oldest wanted to have bananas so we did even though no one actually ate them.  Haha...

 I made pigeon hats for all the kids to wear instead of birthday hats.

 I am no artist, but I made this sign and placed it outside the front door.

 I saw these puppets and thought they were so cute so each of the kids made those.  Then my oldest two put on a puppet show for everybody.  It was cute.

 We gave the guests cookies on their way out. Boy, was that pigeon jealous.