Primary Book Club – The Wind in the Willows

Marvelously Made Book Club

Book club started as a way to connect and build relationships over a good book. It is important for parents to continue to read to their children even after they are reading themselves. So, in our book club, parents read the book aloud to their child at home and then we gather to discuss it and extend the book through various activities. 

The Wind and the Willows

We started the evening with several different activities to choose from. One option was to make a map of the Wind and the Willows.

Many chose to make a mask of one of the characters from the book.

It was interesting to hear which character the children chose and why.

Make an origami boat.

Origami can be so challenging and the children love it!

Many of the Primary children have an interest in drawing, so one of the activity choices was to follow the steps to draw one of the animals from the story.

Making puppets of the main characters was a popular activity.

The characters in this story had so much personality!

We had a snack and discussed our favorite parts of the book, surprising parts, the characters, and what we would change if we were the author.

Story Tokens

A story token is something that we occasionally gift to the children after a meaningful book. A story token is simply a small object that represents the story in some way, reminds the children of the book, and encourages them to share about the story with someone else. The story token for The Wind in the Willows was this miniature row boat.