Curious George Makes Pancakes ~ Picture Book & KID KANDY

Curious George Makes Pancakes
By Margret & H.A. Rey's
(Scholastic Inc., 1998)

Indulgence me for a minute. I'm on a breakfast roll here. Waffles, pancakes, bacon, eggs, biscuits, gravy, sausage, cinnamon rolls, . . .

Everyone knows Curious George, that innocent-but-always-getting-into-trouble monkey who lives with the man with the yellow hat.

In Curious George Makes Pancakes, George, always curious, went to the Pancake Breakfast Day at the community park. Soon George began dabbling at the pancake station where long lines began to form once people saw the monkey making pancakes. What began as topping pancakes with blueberries turned into working the pancake griddle and assembling stacks of sticky pancakes. Sticky George ended up in the dunk tank, where he again inspired long lines of customers waiting to dunk the now not sticky George.

Curious George is just a funny lovable monkey. This book would be fun to read before a community breakfast or celebration days where breakfast is served or dunk tanks are in use. Or just before you make pancakes for breakfast.

KID KANDY:

Make Pancakes & List Sticky Things

One of my favorite memories is of my mom painstakingly creating our names in pancake batter. We loved eating our names, sticky and all.

1. Mix up pancake batter. Let the littles help! Sticky, messy, or not - cooking is a wonderful bonding and learning activity for kids.

2. Put the batter in a pitcher. Write each child's name in batter and cook name pancakes.

3. Serve with butter, blueberries (just like George), and syrup.

4. Anyone sticky? Start talking about other things that are sticky - tape, glue, lollipops, and so on. See how many sticky items you can list. Add to your mental sticky list as you have drive time in the car, wait time in line, or sitting time at appointments.

Have a sticky fun day!