Bark George: Origami Dog Tissue box play

Upcycled paper bag and Tissue box Dogs

Book

CJ really enjoys reading Bark, George by Jules Feiffer. It's a funny story about a little puppy, George, who swallows some animals (a duck, cat, pig and a cow). When George's mom asks him to bark, he can just make the sounds of the animal inside his tummy. His mom takes him to the Vet and the Vet soon reaches to the bottom of it. The Vet pulls out each animal from George tummy and he gets back his ruff, dog voice. His mom gets so excited that she kisses all the animals and the vet. On the way home, George's mom wants to show off his voice to everyone on the street. But when she says, "Bark, George," he simply says, "Hello". CJ giggled on almost every page - when George made different sounds, when the vet wears the longest latex gloves and pulls out the cow. Her favorite page is George's mom kissing the animals and the vet. While reading the final page, She gives a pause and says "HELLO". What a wonderful funny ending!

Craft

While participating at the Tissue box challenge, I was inspired by the tissue box rabbit on ready set read blog. I had tissue box George up my sleeve ever since. The tissue box opening is a perfect one to hold the animals.

How to make George and his Mommy

1. We upcycled a brown paper bag and made Origami talking dog faces. Cut the paper bag and create square shapes
   
   
   
   
   Fold a rectangle shape paper as shown below and cut a square
   
   
2. Follow the instructions given here to fold the origami talking dog faces
   
   
   
3. Add eyes, nose and mouth using a pen/Marker
   
   
   
   
   While making the other dog eyes, CJ became impatient and just doodled something
   
   
4. Take empty tissue boxes and wrap them with the scraps of brown paper or any color construction paper
   
5. Place the tissue boxes in upright position with the rectangular opening facing you. Glue the origami dog faces to the tissue boxes above the opening.
   
   George's mom has a red scarf around her neck. So we added a red ribbon bow.
   
   

While doing the Origami dog, I was just wondering whether CJ will be able to do the folds. But She did it with out my help. I just showed her the instructions from the laptop and She was super fast in folding. I let her to draw the eyes, nose and mouth too.

After creating the dogs, We filled George tummy with small toy animals.



CJ reenacted the story in her own words and also played the role of Vet. She had fun pulling out the animals.












For the animals, you can also use the printable from Making Learning Fun site. They also have a list of activities to go with the book.

Updated blog post for the Paper bag creative challenge hosted by Rachelle of Tinkerlab. The challenge is to create a child-centered craft using at least one paper bag

While we had played with paper bag to create origami dogs, we do have few of our other posts that can be done with paper bags too

Make Paper boats with paper bags



Make a simple Butterfly using simple folds and cutting



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