20+ Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Book Crafts and Recipes

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is a bestselling American children’s book written by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert, and published by Simon & Schuster in 1989. It teaches children to read and not to give up when things are hard. Children will enjoy the vibrant art, the bouncy rhymes, the repetition to this learning style.

The more they read or hear the same story over and over the more familiar the words in the story become. Many children have a favourite book that they require you to read with them, over and over again, this is likely to be one of those keepsake books.

Maybe you already have the book and are looking for ideas to extend the activity?

All of these projects, patterns and recipes are based on the Children’s book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Alphabet Slime

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Game

Sidewalk Chalk Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Alphabet Game

Letter Recognition with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

STEAM Ornament

Alphabet Tree

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Window Activity

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Name Tree

Chicka Chicka Boom Craft

Chicka Chicka Multiplication Trees

Stamping Craft

Snacks

Literacy Snack Idea Alphabet Tree + Free Printable

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Virtual Book Club)

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Snack

Boom Chicka Pop PopCorn

Organic Alphabet cookies

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Snacks

Decor

Large Card Stock Palm tree for Classroom

Inflatable Palm Tree For Soft Play

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Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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