Lefty by Mo Willems, Illustrated by Dan Santat
My son and I are both left-handed (like Dan Santat) and love Dan Santat illustrations (...like Dan Santat, surely?) so I wanted to read this book with him. He's a bit too old for it now, but there are some interesting facts in there that he loved learning to share with his (right-handed) friends.
It's a fun book and I can picture reading it aloud in a classroom or library, like all Mo Willems and Dan Santat books!
Activities I would do as a librarian would include:
- polling the class or storytime group to see who is left-handed and who is right-handed
- tracing hands on paper and coloring them (for younger kids) or drawing things that make you you (for older kids)
- giving them a word to try and write with both their left and right hands
- draw the same picture with both left and right hands
- toss beanbags into a basket with left and right hands
What activities would you incorporate into a storytime or lesson using this book? What have you tried? I'd love to hear how it went!
