Celebrate Year-Round with Pete the Cat - Activity Guide

Aug 21, 2026

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Year-round holiday and seasonal activity guide centered on Pete the Cat, using themed posters and simple classroom-friendly projects. Activities include a back-to-school memory album, a Thanksgiving shoe drive, a class election ballot tied to reading expectations, St. Patrick’s Day green-book displays and shamrock crafts, and Christmas reading drives or swaps. It also provides games like partner discovery and reading-acrostic contests, plus arts and crafts for Halloween, birthdays, and more.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages7

Reading Time11 min

AccessFree to download

Setting the Scene

School Is Cool (Back to School)

Shoe Drive (Thanksgiving)

Cast Your Ballot (Election)

Lucky Books (St. Patrick’s Day)

Gift of Reading (Christmas)

Games/Contests

Paired Up with Things You Love (Valentine’s Day)

Reading SHAMROCKS (St. Patrick’s Day)

Egg-celent Balancing (Easter)

Arts/Crafts

Groovy Ghosts (Halloween)

Magic Safety Glasses (Birthday)

Vote 4 Pete (Election)

Celebrate Year-Round with Pete the Cat! by Matthew C. Winner Use the posters at [http://upstartpromotions.com/upstart/](http://upstartpromotions.com/upstart/)[ ](http://upstartpromotions.com/upstart/)search/pete%20the%20cat/Pete-the-Catreg-Holiday-andSeasonal-Poster-Set-EP238-c_275746/ and the activities below to get kids excited about holidays and seasons with Pete the Cat! Setting the Scene School Is Cool. (Back to School) Use the“School Is Cool” poster to create a memory album bulletin board of highlights from throughout the school year. Consider starting at the beginning of the school year with a board displaying the poster and blank Polaroid frames, created by stapling a black square of construction paper over a white sheet of construction paper. Print out a new photo each week and add it to the board. Have kids help to write a caption describing the event captured on film. Shoe Drive. (Thanksgiving) November is a time for thankfulness. Host a shoe drive to collect gently used shoes and footwear. Donate the items collected to an organization such as Soles 4 Souls ([https://soles4souls](https://soles4souls). org), a not-for-profit global social enterprise committed to fighting poverty through the collection and distribution of shoes and clothing. Reproduce the image of Pete on page 4 and write “Helping others is cool!” on the book. Post on a bulletin board. Make multiple copies of the shoes on page 5, and each time a pair of shoes is donated, have students color a pair of shoes and add them to the board. Cast Your Ballot. (Election) Set up a ballot box forchildren to vote on the class mascot for the month. Select two mascots from well-known characters in children’s literature and have kids vote on which mascot they want to represent their class for next month. Promote class expectations as exemplified by the character elected. For example, if Pete the Cat was elected, the class might focus on going with the flow (“It’s all good!”) . Display the “Vote for Books” poster as a reminder of the choice kids are making in who will represent them and their class. Lucky Books. (St. Patrick’s Day) Display a collection of books with green covers. Create word bubbles and write phrases on them such as “We’re lucky to have readers like you!”,“Lucky to be loved by such awesome readers!”and “Readers are worth a bucket of gold!” Display the word bubbles coming out of the books. Make copies of 1 Activity Guide © 2015 Demco, Inc. Pete the Cat © 1999, 2010 James Dean the shamrocks on page 6. Have students decorate them and write titles of books that they love on them. Display the shamrocks with the books. Gift of Reading. (Christmas) Hold a book drive or a book swap in order to get more books into the hands of kids in your community. Display the “Reading is agift” poster above a large box for collection of new or gently used books. Decorate the box with a copy of Pete holding a book from page 4. Sort donated books into sets of similar reading level or interest. Wrap the sets of books in wrapping paper and label with the age range prior to donating them to a shelter or community center. Games/Contests Paired Up with Things You Love. (Valentine’s Day) Explain to kids that you’re going to ask them to locate a partner based on interests alone. Give students a question to ask each other. When kids find someone who answers the question similarly, they sit down together. Sample questions might include,“Which do you prefer: pizza or tacos? Which do you like more: soccer or football? If given only one choice, which would you prefer: no TV for the rest of your life or no video games for the rest of your life?” Make the game more challenging by telling kids they have to find a different partner with each new round. By the end of the game, they all will have discovered new things about one another! Reading SHAMROCKS. (St. Patrick’s Day) Display the “Reading Sham-Rocks!” poster and copies of the shamrocks on page 6 a

FAQs

What are the reading-based game and reward mechanics included for St. Patrick’s Day?

Create a reading contest using books that start with the letters in “S-H-A-MR-O-C-K-S,” track titles on an acrostic organizer, and when students read nine different books, they can enter a drawing for a free book, classroom helper time, or another prize.

Aug 21, 2026

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