Three Little Kittens

Lyrics

Three little kittens, they lost their mittens, and they began to cry.

Oh mother dear, we sadly fear. Our mittens we have lost.

Lost your mittens, you naughty kittens. Then you shall have no pie.

Meow, meow, meow, meow. We shall have no pie.

Three little kittens, they found their mittens, and they began to cry.

Oh mother dear, see here, see here. Our mittens we have found!

Found your mittens, you darling kittens. Then you shall have some pie.

Meow, meow, meow, meow. We shall have some pie.

Craft:

What you need:

4 toilet paper rolls
orange piece of construction paper to cut into ears
pink piece of construction paper to cut out noses
black marker to draw eyes, mouth and whiskers
felt to create clothes and mittens
velcro for mittens to stick
ribbon for clothes
scissors
hot glue gun and glue sticks to attach clothes and velcro

My son decided that we needed a "dada" cat too!

Three Little Kittens toilet paper roll craft

Teaching Tip: Point out the rhymes in this nursery rhyme. Kitten and mitten. Dear and fear. Cry and pie. Dear and here. Tell your child, the ending sounds the same, but the first sound is different. Rhyming is an important pre-literacy skill. Children are discovering similarities in sounds which will often later include similarities in spelling. Children are also hearing the different sounds at the beginning which will result in different letters of the alphabet.

Free and Easy Rhyming Activities

Nursery rhymes and many children's books include rhyming words. Help your child identify rhymes by bringing the child's attention to the words that rhyme on the page. Then you can say another word and ask if that word rhymes. For example you could say, "Kitten and mitten rhyme. What about bitten? Do kitten, mitten, and bitten rhyme?.... What about pie? Do kitten, mitten, bitten, and pie rhyme?"

Books are a great resource to help your child identify rhymes. Here is a list of books that I have enjoyed using with my children that include rhymes in their stories.

Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans, and all the other Madeline books in that series!

Big Dog...Little Dog by P.D. Eastman

Little One, God Loves You by Amy Warren Hiliker

Happy Hippo, Angry Duck by Sandra Boynton, and many other books by her as well!

Blue Train, Green Train by The Reverend W Awdry

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

There a million more wonderful rhyming books you can read to your child. In fact, if you go to the children's section of your public library and pick out books by random, I believe it won't be long before you happen upon one.

Songs are another great way to bring attention to rhyming words. From the songs you listen to on the radio, to PBS theme songs, to Jesus Loves Me This I Know, there are easily a billion songs out there that rhyme. For a child that has started understanding how to hear rhymes, you could sing a short section of a song and ask the child to tell you the rhyming words.

Older children who can identify letters and letter sounds can help you create a list of words that rhyme. For instance, a parent could write "at" on a piece of paper. Together the child and parent could list as many -at words that they can think of.

Encouragement: Sometimes parenting and caregiving seems like a less important task than when we work an outside job or serve the larger community. It can especially seem like that when we are doing a silly rhyme with our children, but that isn't true. Our children are the community, and our children will most likely work an outside job one day. We are preparing them for the future. Jobs and community are important, but it all begins at home. You are doing an awesome job parents and primary caregivers! Although it can sometimes seem dull and without reward, our work at home is as important as the work we do outside the home!

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