Books and Activities for a Five-Year-Old

• Read a book and do a related activity to extend the book experience for your child!
• Read The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins, then bake some cookies and count them.
• Read Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey, then visit a park.
• Read The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer, then visit your local nature center.
• Read Yoko, by Rosemary Wells or Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes, then visit your new school.
• Read Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems, then take a bus ride.
• Read Feast for Ten by Cathryn Falwell, then go grocery shopping.
• Read How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, then visit a science museum.
• Read Strega Nona, by Tomie DePaola or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, then make and eat a spaghetti dinner.
• Read The Saturday Escape by Daniel Mahoney when you visit the library.
• Read The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, by Steven Kroll, then visit the produce section of your grocery store or a farmers’ market.
• Read I Spy: an Alphabet in Art, devised and selected by Lucy Micklethwait, then visit an art museum.
• Read Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitsgerald Howard, then try on all the hats you have at home.
• Read Feathers for Lunch, by Lois Ehlert, then look go on a walk to look for birds.
• Read Diez Deditos/ Ten Little Fingers by Jose-Luis Orzco then sing a song.
• Read Guess Whose Shadow by Stephen Swineburn then go out in the sunshine!
• Read If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff then get a muffin at the bakery.

Longer books to read aloud to a five-year-old:

• Read My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett and eat some tangerines.
• Read Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and go to the State Fair to look at animals.
• Read James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and eat a fresh, juicy peach.