The Tale of Despereaux Book Club Ideas

Looking for activities to get forth with the book?  We've got you covered with these hands-on ideas to bring your next The Tale of Despereaux book club to life!

We recently organized a Zoom book social club for my first form daughter and a few of her friends.  Plainly with our girls being only beginning graders, the moms read the book aloud to each of our daughters throughout the calendar week.  We chose The Tale of Despereaux past Kate DiCamillo as our starting time book gild volume.

We read the book over a course of about v weeks or and so and met each Tuesday on Zoom (due to the pandemic) for a footling activity and to discuss the books.  We dropped off all the materials for the activeness on the porches of each friend prior to the Zoom meeting.

This book club turned out to be then much fun, even though they aren't currently meeting in person.  We will definitely be standing for future books.  But here were some of the activities that the girls enjoyed doing while readingThe Tale of Despereaux.

To kick off our book guild, I had a friend make these adorable cookies.  A mouse for Despereaux and an Eiffel Tower since the book is set in French republic.

Activities to continue with the book The Tale of Despereaux

"Stained Drinking glass" Window

Materials:

Cheap five×7 pic frames
Hot Glue and hot mucilage gun
Black hot mucilage OR black craft glue
Assorted colors of Sharpie markers

During the first office of the book, Despereaux is attracted to the low-cal and he is particularly attracted to the cute, colorful light coming from the stained glass windows in the castle.  For this activity, I bought cheap 5×vii picture frames at the Dollar Tree and then hot glued the drinking glass to the frame.  I and then used black hot glue to make a stained glass design on the drinking glass and the girls used Sharpies to color in each window compartment, but would probably just use the black craft glue next fourth dimension every bit information technology would exist easier to work with.  I thought the end event turned out to be so cute!!

Mouse Box

Materials:

Small brownish craft boxes from Dollar Tree
Diverse sizes of cream/felt/paper hearts to make Mouse Face and ears
Googly Optics
Yarn for whiskers and tail

We fabricated this craft a few days before Valentine's Mean solar day, hence the hearts used in the mouse (that can likewise double as a bunny…lol).  You only need a few dissimilar sizes of hearts in various colors.  You lot can use precut foam or felt hearts or only cut your own.  Nosotros cutting a small piece of yarn for the whiskers but they were nonetheless as well thick so nosotros pulled apart the individual strands from the yarn slice and that worked perfectly.

Despereaux in the Dungeon Maze

Materials:

Paper Plate
2 Small-scale Magnets
Wooden Dowel Rod
Picture of a Mouse
Printable Maze or

This thought is originally inspired by The Stalk Laboratory.  You tin can notice step-by-pace directions here and even a printable maze to impress and mucilage onto your paper plate.  Delight note:  the link leads to the maze just.  You will accept to impress your ain picture of a mouse.

Paint Your Own Pottery:  Despereaux, Princess Pea, and the Castle

Materials:

Unfinished Pottery, Paint, and Paintbrushes from local shop

I of the other moms generously planned this activity and it was the PERFECT culmination for our book club!  She purchased each of these unglazed pottery pieces from a local paint-your-ain-pottery business.  The kit included the paint and the brushes and then we just had to have the painted pottery dorsum to the shop to be fired and glazed.  They turned out And so cute and will be a fun retentiveness of our book club that the girls can go along in their rooms!

One thing we didn't get to practice was make soup!  Soup (or a lack thereof) was such a big role of the story and I wished we could have incorporated my potato soup recipe somehow!

For our next book society, nosotros have chosen the volume Clementine so stay tuned for some fun activities!

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