A great directed line instruction drawing of the classic children's book, Giraffes Can't Dance. Children learn to create funny, personalized cut-out giraffe

Books become even better when you pair them with fun activities! See what we did to go along with this month's Monthly Crafting Giraffes Can't Dance Book Club selection! Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. This means if you click on a link and purchase something, I'll receive a small affiliate commission at no cost to you. Thanks so much for supporting my efforts with this blog! My bloggy pal Hilary over at Raising Fairies and Knights started a fun Monthly Crafting Book Club…

Based on the popular book, Giraffes Can't Dance kids learn to draw a dancing giraffe and create a moonlit sky. This was one of my first art lessons posted on the blog (all the way back in 2008!) and the popularity of this cute project has continue to increase over the years.

Babies to Bookworms presents fun crafts and activities to pair with Giles Andreae's book "Giraffes Can't Dance". Learn to be yourself along with Gerald!

These growth mindset activities pair perfectly with the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae! This resource is ideal to use with your students during the first weeks of school. This book companion activity set includes a giraffe craft, writing response page, anchor chart labels, sorting cards, and retelling page. I love using this story to introduce growth mindset! #firstgrade #backtoschool #socialemotionallearning #socialemotionaldevelopment

This week we went on a safari to Africa. On the projector: How do you not love this book? Beautifully illustrated with lots of emotion and fun. We tried some dancing too: we tried waltzing, rock an…

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This is a great project to teach the idea of both figurative-type drawing and creating a sense of movement. I try and teach it every year to my Grade 5's. The book, that this lesson is based on, is also very charming and gives a wonderful message about being yourself. I posted about this lesson a couple of years ago and you can see more of the steps HERE. I tend to change up the background every year or so and have done the background paper using watercolour, liquid tempera and tempera cakes…

With these K - 2 resources you get 5 days of reading lesson plans with all center activities and worksheets included. Click here to see...