Beyond the Stage

for Students

Welcome to Beyond the Stage for Students. This guide is designed

to help you prepare for the performance of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

SCHOOL PERFORMANCES

Friday, March 30, 9:45 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Lied Center of Kansas

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Color Me!

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Mouse Maze Mania 3

Mouse Mix and Match 4

Write Your Own Story 5

Cookie Math

6

Mouse T-Chart 7

Web sites and Books 8

A Good Audience 9

OMAHA THEATER

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COLOR ME!

What was your favorite part of the play?

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found at: http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/CharacterDetail.aspx?ChId=64

Mouse Maze Mania!Uh-oh! While Mouse was reading he lost his favorite cookie! Can

you help him find his way through the maze to the cookie at the

bottom?

START!

FINISH!

Mouse Mix and MatchDraw a line to connect each picture on the left with

the matching picture on the right

Congratulations!Now that you have read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

and seen the play you are a mouse expert!

Think back to the book and the play. What things were the

same? What things were different?

Things That Were The Same

The Book The Play

Things That Were Different

The Book The Play

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Fun Web sitesHere is a list of Web sites you can visit to have more fun with Mouse!

http://www.lauranumeroff.com/

Visit this Web site to learn more about the author, Laura Numeroff.

http://www.dltk-

kids.com/crafts/valentines/recipes/sugar_cookies.htm

Visit this Web site to get an easy cookie recipe you can make with

help from an adult.

http://www.mousecookiebooks.com/

Visit this Web site to learn more about Mouse and all of his friends.

Did you like the book If You Give a Mouse

a Cookie?

Here are some more books by Laura Numeroff that you can read!

When Sheep Sleep

If you Take a Mouse to

School

The Chicken Sisters

If you Give a Pig a Pancake

If you Give a Moose a

Muffin

If you Take a Mouse to the

Movies

Tim Van Leer

Executive Director

Karen Christilles

Associate Director

Doug Wendel

Associate Director

Anthea Scouffas

Director of Education

Amy Beecher

Publications Manager

Ian Cahir

Graphic Designer

Beyond the Stage

Editors – Anthea Scouffas

and Amy Beecher

Writers – Kate Giessel

Ann Bruemmer

Lorri Claassen

Carol Van Wyk

Darcy Schild

www.lied.ku.edu

785.864.2787

Adventures in Imagination is the Lied Center’s L.E.A.P. partnership withLawrence Public Schools and U.S. Bank. Adventures’ programs utilize thearts to enhance reading, writing, critical thinking and creative expression.

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Lied Center of Kansas