Read Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!
Play Pin the Tail on Alligator
Read Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion
Play Pin the Tail on the Bunny
Read Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Learn to Draw Pigeon
Read Watch Me Throw the Ball!
Play Ball in the Bucket
Read Elephants Cannot Dance!
Dance: Elephant & Piggie Dance Off
Make Pigeon Headbands
Do the Pigeon Dance (The Chicken Dance with Pigeon head bobbing)
Write a letter to Mo
Book Display: Books by Mo Willems (Yes! You can check them out.)
Door Prize Drawing: Candyland Board Game, Dr. Seuss Matching Game, I Spy Snap Card Game
Refreshments: Cookies & Kool-Aid (Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct)
Takeaways: Various coloring and drawing sheets from activity/event kits
Opening Activity: Animal Sounds (from Happy Pig Day! Event Kit)
Book: Pigs Make Me Sneeze!
Activity: Can You Achoo? (from the Elephant & Piggie Books Party Kit)
Book: The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
Activity: Cookie Walk (from The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Event Kit)
Book: Watch Me Throw The Ball!
Activity: Ball in Bucket (from the Elephant & Piggie Books Party Kit)
Craft: Elephant & Piggie Paper Bag puppets
Take Home Sheets
Invent Your Own Cookie Sheet (from The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Event Kit)
Create Your Own Elephant & Piggie Story sheet (from the Elephant & Piggie Books Party Kit)
Let’s Draw the Pigeon! by Mo Willems sheet (from The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! Event Kit)
4 Coloring sheets (from The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Event Kit & the Elephant & Piggie Books Party Kit)
Book Display: Author Mo Willems
Book: There Is a Bird on Your Head!
Game: Bird’s Nest Relay Race
Book: Elephants Cannot Dance!
Activity: Dancing (“Get Ready, Get Set, Let’s Dance” by Greg & Steve)
Book: Watch Me Throw the Ball!
Game: Ball in Bucket
Book: I’m a Frog!
Activity: Animal Sounds
Craft: Elephant & Piggie Puppets or Draw Pigeon
Take Home: Elephant & Piggie Coloring Sheets
Refreshments: Cookies, Circus Peanuts, Kool-aid
Games: Ball in the Bucket (Watch Me Throw the Ball!) & Bird’s Nest Relay Race (There Is a Bird on Your Head!)
Craft: Elephant and Piggie Paper Bag Puppets
Books: I Am Invited to a Party! (2007), Happy Pig Day! (2011), The Thank You Book (2016)
Group Game: Animal Sounds (I’m a Frog!) or Can You Achoo? (Pigs Make Me Sneeze!)
Individual Games: Bird’s Nest Relay Race (There Is a Bird on Your Head!) and Ball in the Bucket (Watch Me Throw the Ball!)
Craft: Elephant & Piggie Paper Bag Puppets
Take Home: Draw Elephant & Piggie (from We Are in an ART-ivity Book!)
Other Ideas
See this blog post for more details and pictures.
Read: The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! and Let’s Go for a Drive!
Games: Bird’s Nest Relay and Mo Willems Character Scavenger Hunt (Alligator, Baby Goose, Bus Driver, Cat the Cat, Duckling, Elephant, Knuffle Bunny, Pigeon, Piggie, Puppy)
Craft: Elephant & Piggie Paper Bag Puppets
Book Display: Books by Mo Willems
Take Home: Draw Elephant & Piggie (from We Are in an ART-ivity Book!) and Let’s Draw the Pigeon (10th Birthday Celebration Activity Kit)
Mo Willems Party (October 2022)
Read: The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! and one Elephant & Piggie book
The Elephant and Piggie books were selected on the day at each branch so I read the following:
We Are in a Book! (MPL)
Let’s Go for a Drive! (GCPL)
Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (APL)
There Is a Bird on Your Head! (MML)
Games:
Mo Willems Character Scavenger Hunt (Alligator, Baby Goose, Bus Driver, Cat the Cat, Duckling, Elephant, Knuffle Bunny, Pigeon, Piggie, Puppy, Squirrel, and Wilbur)
Craft: Elephant & Piggie Paper Bag Puppets (Make One and Take One)
Book Display: Books by Mo Willems
Take Home Activity Packet:
Draw Elephant Gerald (Thank-O-Rama!)
Draw Piggie
Let’s Draw the Pigeon!
Pigeon & Duckling Finger Puppets
Create Your Own Elephant & Piggie Story
Aww…Puppies!
Invent Your Own Cookie
What Would You Tell Pigeon?
Squirrel to the Stars
License to Read
Bath Time? No, Thanks!