WOW. Last week, I posted my Freebie Friday book, Snowman, Snowman What do You See? and I CANNOT believe the response I have gotten. It is my most viewed blog post EVER and has been downloaded between 300-500 times a day! I am SO happy that so many people are enjoying it…please drop me a comment if you are one of the many who downloaded and let me know how it worked for you! 
So, I decided, I should give you all another free printable book. 
This is another book inspired by Eric Carle. This time, I was inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar and our new reindeer friend, Mr. Reindeer.
In this book, the Reindeer finds himself very hungry as he thinks about all the flying he will need to do on Christmas Eve. So, he starts looking for something to eat! This book targets many different Christmas vocabulary words, as well as counting skills and basic concepts. Vocabulary targeted includes Reindeer, jingle bells, ornaments, presents, Christmas lights, stockings, Christmas tree, hot chocolate, candy cain, gingerbread house, fruitcake, gingerbread man, eggnog and chestnuts; counting 1-6, all the days of the week, concepts of big, round, colors, etc.
How to use this mini book:
- You will need scissors to cut out the pictures and glue to glue them in. (Optional: you can laminate this book, and the pictures, and use Velcro to attach the pictures to the pages. This would be great for small groups)
- You will notice on each page that there is a small picture of each Christmas item next to its name in the sentence. This is to help young children help you “read” the book. (The pictures can also be an extra visual cue for step four. The children can match picture to picture).
- Read the book once through with your child.
- Go through the book a second time and have your child either glue in the appropriate pictures on each page. You will find that there are extras of each picture. This is so that your child can practice counting out the correct number of objects (You could also have your child draw his/her own pictures for each page.)
- As your child glues/draws, talk a little about each Christmas item: What color is it? What shape is it? What is in it? What sound does it make? How big is it? What does it feel like? Etc.
- Talk about all the items on page 8…have you ever eaten them before? What do they taste like? Is it warm or cold? Hard or soft? Etc.
- Read the book often in the weeks leading up to Christmas. See if your child can “fill in the last word” on each sentence after you have read the story several times.
- Follow up activities: Have a scavenger hunt: Can you find the items in the story in your home? Where are they? What about at the store?
You can download your own copy of The Very Hungry Reindeer (with directions) HERE.
BONUS: Make yourself your own Very Hungry Reindeer…And then download this set of pictures and “feed” the reindeer as you read the story! (Download them HERE)
My daughter LOVED THIS! She had so much fun feeding the reindeer all the silly things as we read the story. She also is learning some new words! This would also be a great activity for a small group, like at circle time. You could give each child one of the items and have the child come up and feed the reindeer at the appropriate time in the story!
Please let me know if you use this book and/or the Feed the Reindeer activity with your children or students! I LOVE feedback! As a thank you, I’d love for you to become a follower of my blog! You can follow on Google Friend Connect, via Email, Facebook, Twitter (although I am not great a Twitter yet! HA!).
With that…I hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend with your families!
Cheers!
(All clip art thanks to Microsoft Office Images and Graphics Factory)
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HI Katie! I plan on using this one the week of Dec 19th! Thanks for sharing! I bookmarked and can’t wait to use it! Thanks for sharing another great mini book!!! You rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trina you are SO WELCOME!!! PLEASE let me know how your little ones enjoyed it!!
How creative! I have added this to my Pinterest board to share with everyone. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome Jill! Thanks for the PIN!
You ROCK!!! Thanks so much for sharing this.
Oh Jessica THANKS!!!!
You are welcome!
I used this book today already with my preschool students. They were so excited! We are going to talk more about it next time and also feed the reindeer. This is such a cute and quick activity! I think that I like it just as much as the kids.
Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Amy YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I am SO glad you already had the chance to use it! And Thank YOU for letting me know! I LOVE the feedback!
You are awesome! I love all of your ideas!
Awe thanks!! I hope you find some of them helpful/fun!!
Katie, you are awesome! When do you find time?! I am so glad you enjoy my trays and I hope they help your daughter. I read your post about JIA to educate myself a little and think E is very blessed to have such a smart mommy who is so committed to her development and growth and therapy. I hope you can find some good things at the dollar store to have fun with E and Ev this holiday season
Oh Sierra it means SO much to me that you read my info on JA!! Thank you!
I wanted to be sure that I used my blog to educate others about JA. So it’s working! 
Ah ha ha ha….time…well nap time and then when the kids go to sleep at night are my main times to get on here
Have a GREAT weekend!!
This is adorable. Thanks!
Barbara
Grade ONEderful
Thanks Barbara!
Thank you! Just perfect for what I need for activity next week!
Awesome Joanne! Be sure to stop back and tell me how it went!
Very cool – aren’t you creative! Wow, I can’t believe your other book is downloaded 300-500 times a day! WOW! You blow me away =-) Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Looking forward to seeing what you’ve been up to again next week!
Beth =-)
Thanks Beth!!! You are also so creative with your curriculum!
Thank you for leaving such a wonderful comment on my blog site. I have just viewed yours and it is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! I have definitely become a follower. I teach special education and I have several students with language delays and a lot of my day is structured around pulling language out of my kiddos so I am so glad I came across your site. I LOVE great ideas! Thank you for finding me!
Jeannie
Jeannie I am so happy you were able to stop by and take a look around! SO happy to have you here!! I was LOVING your blog also, so many great ideas! And so happy to have another “special” friend here
Thank you for sharing another great idea. I am looking forward to using this activity with my preschool groups this week.
Debbie let me know how it goes!
I just to let you know I shared your reindeer and snowman activity on my blog this week!! Thanks, it is adorable!
Kristin at [Simply Speech]
Kristen wow, THANK you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great book! My preschooler will love this! Thanks for sharing!
Lisa
Criss-Cross Applesauce
You are so welcome Lisa!
Thanks so much for sharing this fun printable! Looking forward to doing it with my little boy this week.
Awesome Jenny!
I love it! Thank you for sharing it at Sharing Saturday!
Thanks Carrie!
I downloaded the snowman book and we loved it! Can’t wait to try this one. Just pinned it.
Fantastic! Let me know how your children liked it!
This is so adorable! You are so creative! Thank you so much for sharing! I can’t wait to do this with my children!
Andrea @ myhomeschooltale.blogspot.com
great job and very creative. LOVE IT! kuddos
Thank you Kristy!!!!!
Um…. so stinkin’ cute. So mich fun – thanks so much for sharing! I am about to subscribve to your blog so I don’t miss any of your other creative ideas!!!
Thanks Christie!!
This is adorable! I can’t wait to make this with my daughter when she’s home from school next week. Merry Christmas!
Thanks Kim, let me know how she likes it!!
I am currently fulfilling my SLPA clinical hours in a preschool environment. When asked to prepare a group speech activity, I went searching the web for ideas. I am so glad I came across your site!! I prepared the reindeer books for the kids to make, laminated one for my supply box, and made the reindeer for the kids to ‘feed’. They loved it and I cannot wait to do Snowman Snowman what do you see? in January!
Carin you just made my MONTH!! SO happy you were able to use my activity. Thanks so much for letting me know!
[...] read a fun twist on a wonderful Eric Carle book, called One Very Hungry Reindeer. Playing with words 365 gives you the book and pictures to include. R2 used his paper bag reindeer we made at storytime [...]
Liam loved, loved, loved your book. Think it’s his favorite Christmas book so far, hehe. We read it 5 times today and did the cut and paste activity and he is still asking to read it some more.
Planned a reindeer theme this week because I was planning to use your book and made a mini tot book with little reindeer activities to go along with it, which I shared on my site. (Also put a link to it on the Thrifty Thursday link up). Since I was using your Reindeer story I shared a link to this post on my site.
Thanks again for sharing an awesome activity!