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The Bear Ate Your Sandwich Activities

September 5, 2016 • 16 Comments

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The Bear Ate Your Sandwich Activities are full of fun literacy activities for kids including a BIG printable pack. The learning ideas are perfect for Read for the Record Day.

Book activities that promote a love of reading just make me beam. Have you read The Bear Ate Your Sandwich?  I’ve got some great activities that you can do with the kids to help celebrate with learning fun.

Use these The Bear Ate Your Sandwich Activities to build literacy skills. Perfect for Read for the Record Day too.

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich Activities and Book

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The Book

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach is a tall tale of a bear who leaves his home in the forest, explores a city, and stumbles across a sandwich.  It’s not until the very end that the reader discovers that the sandwich didn’t really disappear because of the bear and that the whole story is just a tall tale to cover up the real sandwich theft.

For more books about bears, check out our big list.—>Bear Books for Kids

The Activities

Now, let’s have some sandwich learning fun.  Try one or more of these activities to do after reading the book.  Best of all, I created a FREE printable pack of all the activities for you!

#1- Sandwich Beginning Sound Sort

Object: Kids will match beginning sounds with the visual letters that represent those sounds.

Materials needed: 8 paper plates, black marker, scissors, and the beginning sound sandwiches (see free printable below)

  1. Print pages 4 and 5 of the free download printable.
  2. Cut out each sandwich.
  3. Write the following letters on 8 paper plates: m, f, l, e, p, a, j, and c.
  4. Have kids place the right sandwich on each plate.

#2- Sandwich Letter Jump

Object: Kids will identify letters of the alphabet and build gross motor skills by jumping.

Materials needed: masking tape and the letter jump sandwiches (see free printable below)

  1. Print pages 7 through 19 of the free download printable.
  2. Cut out each sandwich.
  3. Place each sandwich on the ground about a foot apart.  You may want to tape them down.
  4. Have kids jump over each sandwich and name each letter as they jump over it.

#3- Sandwich Trap

Object: Kids will design a trap to catch the sandwich thief.

Materials needed: crayons or markers and the sandwich trap sheet (see free printable below)

  1. Print page 23 of the free download printable.
  2. Have each child design a sandwich trap to catch the real sandwich thief.

Take it a step further and have the kids actually build their trap based on their drawing.  It’s a great STEM activity.

Printable Activities

Ready to get started?  You just need to get the FREE printable I created as a thank you gift for email subscribers.

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The Bear Ate Your Sandwich Activities are full of fun literacy activities for kids including a BIG printable pack. The learning ideas are perfect for Read for the Record Day.


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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Heathrt says

    April 30, 2022 at 2:45 pm

    Excited to read the book and do the activities with my students and my daughter

    Reply
  2. Christina says

    July 22, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    The activities look interesting!

    Reply
  3. Donna Hardman says

    January 25, 2021 at 10:49 pm

    very Cute can’t wait to use this in my classroom

    Reply
  4. monika Walcheski says

    May 12, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    I love this story!
    thanks for creating ideas to go
    with the story! you make my life simple!

    Reply
  5. Bernadette Christy says

    January 7, 2019 at 1:37 pm

    Super Cute!

    Reply
  6. Sandra Huntington says

    October 5, 2018 at 1:02 pm

    Looks darling! Can hardly wait to get it so I can print it. Thanks

    Reply
  7. chris clute says

    July 2, 2018 at 10:53 am

    I can’t find the download for this packet! Bears is my first theme for this year. I would love to use this activity.
    Thanks
    Chris

    Reply
    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      July 2, 2018 at 12:39 pm

      Hi Chris, you just need to click the “click to subscribe button,” pop in your email, and it will be sent as a thank you gift for becoming a free newsletter subscriber. Enjoy!

      Reply
  8. amy says

    June 13, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    THis is so cute!

    Reply
  9. pragmaticmom says

    September 5, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    Such great activities!! Looking forward to reading this picture book!

    Reply
  10. Pam Bishop says

    September 5, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    Thank you so much Jodie!!! You are always so kind to share such awesome idea!!!

    Reply
    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      September 5, 2016 at 6:46 pm

      My pleasure Pam! 🙂 I love that the ideas can help so many.

      Reply
  11. Mandie says

    September 5, 2016 at 11:47 am

    This is so cute! Thank you. I have it all set for us to do this week.

    Reply
    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      September 5, 2016 at 12:28 pm

      I can’t wait to hear how he likes it!

      Reply
  12. Diane says

    September 5, 2016 at 7:25 am

    Thank you. The kids will love these!

    Reply
    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      September 5, 2016 at 7:29 am

      Great, it’s one of our favorite days to celebrate.

      Reply

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