Literacy Snack Idea Counting

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We’re getting into the Halloween spirit with this week’s Literacy Snack Idea Counting idea. We are reading 10 Busy Brooms, by Carole Gerber. It ties in perfectly to reinforce learning our numbers.

This is a cute counting book with cute little witches rescuing each other from the clutches of skeletons, goblins, ghosts, werewolves, and the like. Each added broom rider is saved with an accompanying rhyme. When the extra long broom becomes overloaded, they meet the tenth witch who is quite different, but just as friendly.

For snack this week, I thought it was only appropriate to make brooms to go along with the story.

These resources from Primary Playground work well with this article.

ingredients

each student needs

2 pretzel sticks

1 cheese stick

assemble

Each student will need to cut or break their cheese stick in half. They’ll carefully start to peel back the layers of the cheese stick just over halfway up the stick. When it’s all pulled apart, push the pretzel stick into the other end of the cheese stick as the handle of the broom. Super simple but they look so cute!

Free printable

As the kids are enjoying their snacks, I made a free printable for them to work on. They’ll get to draw 10 busy brooms from the story. Perfect for reinforcing the number 10.

Click the green box below to download the Literacy Snack Idea Counting free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store. 

Hope your little witches enjoy making their little brooms!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette