Have the children create "Lost Cat" signs. Provide paper and drawing utensils for the children to use to create their signs. Provide an example for them to use as a reference. The children can either draw a picture of a cat for the poster or look through magazines to find pictures of cats to cut out and use.
After drawing the students' attention to the illustrated borders in the book, ask them to create a picture that is surrounded by a border. Point out that the borders in the book help describe part of the story that is not told in the text. Help the children decide on a picture to draw, such as a drawing of their living room during the winter with frosty windows and a fire burning in the fireplace. Have them draw a border that is related to the first picture but that tells another aspect of the story. For instance, the border could show what the scene outside the house looks like, with snow on the ground and a snow man.
Have the children create costumes similar to the wild animals in the book. Use brown paper grocery bags for masks. Help the kids cut eye holes in the bags. Provide crayons, craft fur and other simple materials to decorate the masks. For instance, they could create a bear costume by gluing brown craft fur to the bag and cutting felt or craft foam for the ears and nose. Make paws by add fur to old winter gloves.
Use the book to teach a variety of lessons to children. Consider a sequencing activity. Write at least five statements referring to events in the story and ask the kids to put them in the right order. For another story-related activity, ask each child to choose one of the wild animals featured and explore that animal's habitat and other information.