Chocolate Chip Cookies (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie)

• Make chocolate chip cookies together

 

• Chocolate Chip Counting Game
  1. Cut out 10 circles (cookies) from craft foam paper (or cardstock and laminate).
  2. On the first cookie, use a marker to make one dot.
  3. On the second, make 2 dots.
  4. On the third, make 3 dots, etc.
  5. Let the kids use chocolate chips to cover the dots & count up to 10!
  6. I also write the numeral and name on the back of each cookie.
  7. FYI: just so you know, this is how I store most of my games. In a ziploc baggie (I like the One-Zip bags the best because my kids can open & close them) with the letter & theme written on the front. Then I keep them in a photo storage box.

• Read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff
• I love these ideas from Craftoholics Anonymous. We had a fun afternoon with them… 
  1. First, we made chocolate chip cookies together. I had the kids take turns adding ingredients.                                                    
  2. While the cookies are baking, read the book and do several of the activities the little mouse does in the book:
  3. Sweep the kitchen floor!                                                          
  4. Draw a mouse picture with crayons and let them sign their name … with a pen. Use the mouse picture below and add blue overalls or click the link here for a coloring page from the actual book!
  5. Hang the picture on the refrigerator with tape.
  6. Get a glass of milk and enjoy with … a freshly baked cookie to go with it!

snack idea: chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk