Free Mrs. Wishy Washy Lapbook

Animals Sounds Flap Book	Clean and Dirty Sort	Bible Verse
Muddy Pig Finger Paint	Wash Your Hands- Girl Wash Your Hands- Boy	Counting Flag Book Flag Book Instructions
Rectangles Cityscape	W is for Water	Animals for Hide and Go Seek
What is Brown? Fan Book	Farm and City Life Shutterfold	Animal & Tub Matching
Poem to Mud

Suggested Books

Mrs. Wishy-Washy by Joy Cowley

Wishy Washy Day by Joy Cowley

Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm by Joy Cowley

Objectives

Investigate different mediums for finger-painting – pudding and shaving cream.

Sort pictures for the concepts of clean and dirty.

Explore and match farm animal sounds.

Compare and contrast city life and farm life.

Play hide and seek and match animals to hiding spots.

Discover the why, when, how, and who of washing hands.

Learn about the color brown and find items of that color.

Memorize Psalm 51:7.

Counting sets of objects with sums of 1, 2, 3, and 5 and match number to set.

Find rectangles and create a rectangle city.

An introduction to the letter W and words that begin with W.

Activities

1. Use stuffed animals of a pig, duck, and cow and act out the story of Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Use an old washtub or pot (or even just a plastic bucket) and a scrub brush. Mrs. Wishy-Washy and Wishy-Washy Day are perfect for reenacting because of the simple storyline.

2. Make mud in a large plastic container and provide your child with the pans, spoons, plastic knifes to delight himself in a morning of mud pie making. Every child needs to experience this at least once in his life.

3. Clean Mud –

Ingredients

6 rolls of cheap toilet paper
2 small bars of Ivory Soap
1 and 1/2 Cup of Borax
Directions

In a large container, unroll the six rolls of toilet paper. Add warm water until wet. Shave Ivory Soap onto wet paper and mix with hands. Pour in borax and mix. If too dry, add water. It is important to use Ivory Soap. Other soaps do not work as well. The Borax should be well-mixed before children come into contact with the clean mud but don't be tempted to leave it out. Leaving out the Borax will change the consistency significantly.

4. Bubbles – Get some bubbles and have fun!

Games

1. Play “Hide & Seek” to complement Wishy-Washy Day. You could play with your children the traditional game where you take turns hiding and finding each other. You could also have your child pretend to be Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Help him/her say “It’s wishy-washy day. Into the tub for a scrub you go.” You could use the large copies of the animals to hide and have your child find them. Then use the lapbook hiding component to match up where the animals all hid to get out of getting a bath.

Snack Ideas

1. Pigs in a blanket

2. Dip animal crackers in chocolate pudding

Links

Clean Hands

Use this blackline to make a circle story about handwashing.

The lesson that accompanies it is found here: http://www.healthyhands.com/educator/grades_pre_2/lesson_3_3.htm

Animal Sounds Games

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/animal_match/index.html

http://www.lovetwoteach.com/Septembersample.pdf

Patterns

Mrs. Wishy Washy Pattern

Flannel Graph Patterns

Other

Mrs. Wishy-Washy Webquest