Our Happy Home has grown rather fond of a little feline friend named Pete the Cat.
Have you heard of this book????
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It is AMAZING.
It’s all about this cool blue cat who loves his white shoes so much that he sings a song about them.
Then he steps in a pile of strawberries and his beloved white shoes turn red.
Does Pete cry?
Goodness, NO!
He just keeps walking along and singing his song.
Pete the Cat has a bright outlook on life – and it never changes. Even when he continues to step in a mountain of blueberries, a puddle of mud, and a bucket of water.
Pete the Cat teaches Happy Buddies how to stay positive even when unexpected things happen.
And I love that it is filled with repetition so that even my 2-year-old has pretty much memorized the whole story!
Not to mention we have watched this You Tube video (see below) of the author and illustrator reading Pete the Cat aloud to a live audience – complete with song and dramatic expression – about 12,568 times. 🙂
Since Pete the Cat has become such an important part of our everyday lives lately, I thought the Happy Buddy and I could do some fun activities to celebrate him.
I printed off this great Pete the Cat Matching Game from Harper Collins Children’s Books website.
The Happy Buddy had fun trying to find all of the matching Pete the Cats!
*Note: Do you see the disaster in the background??? This 1st trimester stuff is no joke. I don’t think our Happy Home will see the couch or the floor or clean clothes/dishes again until October.*
Then we made our own Pete the Cat out of construction paper.
He is modeling all of his different colored shoes.
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I am thinking about buying one of these Pete the Cat stuffed dolls for the Happy Buddy’s half birthday.
Yes, I celebrate any opportunity I can. 🙂
We finished our Morning of Pete off with a ‘Pin the Shoe on Pete’ game printed from here.
The Happy Buddy kept asking if he could put one of the shoes on Pete’s eye.
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I know Pete the Cat will be the purrrr-fect addition to your Happy Home (if he isn’t already).
Happy Pete the Cat-ing! 🙂
We love Pete the Cat! Congratulations! Don’t stress on a super clean home. It is hard to keep up with all that. I know. I was pregnant with my daughter when my son had just turned one. Hard to rest but when your body is telling you to, you need to. Good luck!
We love this book, too. I’ll have to print off these games for us to play. Thanks!
we also LOVE this book — I think the song really makes it extra-awesome, don’t you?
Melissa – No doubt about it. That song is a winner! We sing it about a hundred times a day! Thanks for swinging by the Fairy!
We read this recently (borrowed from the library) and had a blast with it! Didn’t know about all the extra things available, but the book is super fun on it’s own too! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by the Fairy, Heather! I’m so glad your Happy Home enjoys Pete too!!!
Pete is my hero! He’s the ultimate illustration of my favorite wannabe Beatitude, “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out of shape.” You’re right, Pete — “It’s all good!”
My son loves Pete the Cat too. These activities will be lots of fun!
Looks like so much fun for the whole family!
I love a crafty inspiration that goes with a book! Had to “pin” this one!! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this :). I sent the video link to my prince at school just for the fun of it –we don’t have children to enjoy it, but we both like cats & I thought he’d appreciate the message. He forwarded it to the whole school system! (he’s a high school math teacher in a Catholic school system) He said it was one of the more creative interpretations of Romans 8:28 that he’s seen ;).
I also sent the link to a friend who does have preschool girls & she said they were singing & dancing to it–she’s going to have to get the book through inter-library-loan :).
This cat gets around ;).