Paint and Read Along with Eric Carle
From Mister Rogers' Neighborhood · 1998
28 minPre-KK1st2ndArtReading & Writing (ELA)Social Studies
Summary
Mr. McFeely brings a film about how people make fortune cookies, and a fortune cookie comes to life in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Then Mister Rogers goes to Eric Carle's studio, where the author shows exactly how he paints the tissue paper he cuts his pictures from — and the two of them read “From Head to Toe” together.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
A visit to Eric Carle's studio, plus a fortune-cookie factory.
- How does Eric Carle make the paper he uses for his pictures?
- Why do you think he paints the paper first instead of drawing on it?
- What do the pictures in “From Head to Toe” tell you that the words don't?
- What are the steps in making a fortune cookie?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: illustrator, tissue paper, collage, texture.
Try it: Paint or color a sheet of paper, then tear it into an animal shape and glue it down.
Try it: Pick one picture from a favorite book and write what it shows that the words don't say.