Materials
Bear die cuts of each color
zipper-closure bags
Red Bear by Bodel Rikys
bear counters
Instructions
1. Ahead of time, punch out bear die cuts from assorted laminated construction
paper for each child.
2. Put one color of each bear into zipper-closure bags, one for each child.
3. During circle time, hand out the bags of bears.
4. As you read Red Bear, show the illustrations and encourage the children to
match the correct die-cut bear on the page.
5. Afterwards, provide colorful bear counters and let the children sort them by
color.
