Grouchy Ladybug Clocks & Eric Carle Link Party

It's Eric Carle's birthday and time to link up all your Eric Carle projects!  The book we chose was The Grouchy Ladybug.  The Grouchy Ladybug argues over aphids for breakfast with a friendly ladybug.  The Grouchy Ladybug wants to fight, but backs down and says he wants to fight somebody bigger.  The animals he encounters get larger and larger, but the Grouchy Ladybug continues looking for an animal to fight.  Eventually he's smacked by a whale's tail and lands right back where he started.  Tired, hungry, and wet, the Grouchy Ladybug learns how nice it can be to share.  Each page tells (and shows) the time so making clocks for this book was the perfect way to introduce telling time.

I started with number stickers on paper plates and used round stickers (in the office supply section) to make two different kinds of ladybugs.

The hands of the clock are craft foam attached with brads.

While I read the book, we worked on showing the time on our own clocks.

The Happy Birthday Eric Carle Linky 2012

1. Have You Seen My Hat?	2. Very Hungry Caterpillar Playdough	3. Very Hungry Caterpillar Toeprints	4. Very Hungry Caterpillar Snack	5. Little Cloud Felt Boards
6. Little Cloud Sensory Tub	7. The Tiny Seed	8. Eric Carle activities, snacks & fun	9. Hungry Caterpillar Snacks & Felt Board	10. Hungry Caterpillar Printable
11. Many Learning Caterpillar Ideas	12. Handprint Hermit Crabs	13. Eric Carle Puzzle, red ted art	14. Papa, please get the moon for me	15. 10 Little Rubber Ducks
16. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse	17. Grouchy Ladybug Clocks	18. Little Cloud Parfaits	19. Very Busy Spider Invisible Webs	20. Very Hungry Caterpillar Party
21. Glow in the Dark Very Lonely Fireflies	22. Feed the Caterpillar & Printable	23. Happy Birthday, Eric Carle!	24. The Very Quiet Cricket Breakfast	25. Pancakes! Where ingredients come from
26. Making bugs & sounds	27. The Very Quiet Cricket movement activities	28. Eric Carle Rhyming Brown Bear Rhyming Book	29. Bug Hunt ~ The very Busy Spider	30. pancakes for breakfast books and activities
31. Very Quiet Cricket science of crickets	32. Very Hungry Caterpillar party	33. Caterpillar Fruit Stamps	34. Recycle art Eric Carle Style	35. Hungry Caterpillar Birthday & Cake Pops
36. The Very Hungry Caterpillar	37. Carle Author/Illustrator Profile	38. Slowly x3 said the Sloth (Playing by the book)	39. The Artist who painted a blue horse	40. Christina
41. The Very Quiet Cricket Printable & Fun	42. Laura	43. Fruit Group Cooking with Kids	44. Appreciation Party Ideas	45. A Very Hungry Party
46. A tale with a ladybug	47. Discovering Eric Carle colors	48. The Very Hungry Caterpillar- crafts and snack idea	49. Brown Bear Brown Bear with Eric Carle	50. Tissue Painting like Eric Carle
51. Having Fun with Eric Carle	52. Eric Carle Collection	53. Hungry Caterpillar Ideas	54. Hungry Caterpillar Games	55. The Very Hungry Caterpillar project
56. Hungry Caterpillar Dramatic Play	57. Eric Carle Lacing Cards	58. Mister Seahorse	59. The Tiny Seed, Watercolor crayons	60. Montessori-Inspired Eric Carle Activities
61. From Head to Toe, Eric Carle inspired Self Collage	62. Tissue Art Birthday Cards	63. The Grouchy Ladybug	64. Brown Bear ideas	65. Story sack for the hungry caterpillar
66. Teacher's Land	67. Kid DIY Touch & Feel Books	68. Brown Bear Puppets	69. Se7en's Eric Carle Rockets	70. Patterns
71. Insects	72. Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft	73. Spiders	74. Carle-esque Butterflies	75. Getting Inspired with Eric Carle
76. Hungry caterpillar & very busy spider	77. The Very Busy Spider-Webs!	78. FREE PRINTABLE	79. The Very Hungry Caterpillar	80. Eric Carle Painting
81. A House for Hermit Crab Nature Walk	82. Seahorse craft & happy bday Eriic Carle	83. Listening for Crickets	84. Shaving Cream Puffy Paint Cloud Art - Little Cloud	85. Grouchy Ladybug Magnetic Clocki
86. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Art	87. The Very Hungry caterpillar art	88. Magnetic pom poms and hungry caterpillar	89. The very Busy Spider	90. Toliet Paper Tube Hungry Caterpilar
91. A House For Hermit Crab	92. The Grouchy Ladybug	93. Rooster Off To See The World Collage	94. Brown Bear, Brown Bear	95. Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother, Too?
96. A House for Hermit Crab	97. Julie-The Teaching Bug	98. A House for Hermit Crab

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