Edward Gibbs plays with the traditional seek and find game in “I Spy With My Little Eye,” one of this year’s nominees for the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award. Cut-outs allow a peek at the next page, and word clues urge preschoolers to guess which animal awaits them. A final peep-hole through the back cover lends itself to an extended game around your home.
For more fun:
Create “I Spy” displays with random household items. Take turns giving clues and finding the objects. Challenge your child by crafting clues that touch on skills she is developing. (e.g. I spy something that rhymes with ‘tree,’ or I spy three things the color of the sky.)
Visit the library and play one of the “I Spy” games on our children’s computers.
Sing about the book’s final character by sharing Five Green and Speckled Frogs:
Five green and speckled frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious bugs.
Yum ! Yum!
One jumped into a pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are four green speckled frogs.
Glub! Glub!
Repeat, counting down until the final verse:
One green and speckled frog,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious bugs.
Yum ! Yum!
He jumped into a pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are no green speckled frogs.
Glub! Glub!