Mom’s storytime with the unicorn
On a blanket, a mother reads a starry book to her baby, while the unicorn lies beside them listening to the story.
- Recommended age
- Ages 4 and up · 20 to 40 minutes
A book full of stars
On a blanket dotted with stars, leaning back against two cushions, a mother holds a big open book. Its pages are covered with moons, stars and spirals. Her baby, sitting right up against her, barefoot, puts both hands on the book and laughs. The mother smiles, her bun tied with a scrunchie, a heart on her top. On the right, the unicorn has lain down in the grass to listen.
First books
A baby can’t follow a story from beginning to end yet: they look at the pictures, touch the pages, laugh when the voice changes. That is the moment the picture shows, when the book becomes a shared game. The little hands on the page say it all: the baby wants to hold the book too.
A gentle page to color
The mother and baby make one big area on the left, the lying unicorn another on the right: roomy shapes, just right for a four-year-old’s hand. The little stars on the blanket and the patterns in the book are finer; they can be colored one by one, or some left white. A few flowers, some hearts and two clouds complete the scene.
Star yellow
The stars and moons in the book call for yellow, on a midnight-blue page if you want a bedtime book. The blanket can take a soft color, pink or lilac, with its stars in white or yellow. A warm color suits the mother’s cardigan, and the heart on her top gets colored red.
A word for the grown-up: with a toddler, let them turn the pages themselves, even out of order, and point to what they are looking at as you name it: “the moon,” “the star.” The fun of handling the book comes before the fun of the story.
Coloring pages that go with this one
More pages from the same theme, age or season — the ones you print right after.
