Below you will see many Humpty Dumpty activities. We had several kinds of puzzles to "put Humpty together again" and a math band-aid game to help with the eggshell cracks. We got to match Humpty "belly" shapes and try to help Humpty across the wall with a magnetic wand without letting him fall off the wall! Each kiddo got to try on the giant egg costume and sit on a paper block wall. We had some real lively actors who dramatically "fell" off our wall! Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is always a hit and one most kids know well. Mrs. Bailey has stars of different colors and textures to play with during Language Group. Mrs. D played a star memory game and then we looked to the star on the ceiling. We laid on our backs, darkened the room (as best we could!), and then Mrs. D used a flashlight on the ceiling. We followed the star with our fingers and it even tickled our bellies! We also learned about Little Jack Horner and his pies. Our feet got naked as we learned the This Little Piggy rhyme with our bare piggy toes!
Little Miss Muffet, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, and Little Bo Peep came next! We matched spider color and shapes to their web homes, found matching numbers on stools, and helped the spider climb up the water spout using colors and shapes. We had spiders GALORE in our water table. We "washed the spiders out" with a home-made funnel (made out of the top of a soda bottle and a small PVC pipe). The kids loved piling the spiders on top of the floating dishtub, and then washing them off with the gush of water! We practiced our handwriting by tracing spider webs (older kids) and spider lines (younger). There was a Spider In, Spider Out game that can drive you crazy! We spin the spinner to find out if we put a spider in the box of our game card, or take a spider out. As you might have figured out, spiders were quickly flying in and out! Sheep needed finding in a tub full of cotton balls, and then sorted by big and little. We also helped the black sheep find their wool and played a number game to give our sheep some wool (cotton balls).
We acted out Little Miss Muffet over and over, as kids loved taking turns wearing the spider hat and pretending to eat the curds and whey. Their favorite part? Running away from the spider, screaming, of course!
We acted out Little Miss Muffet over and over, as kids loved taking turns wearing the spider hat and pretending to eat the curds and whey. Their favorite part? Running away from the spider, screaming, of course!
Oops! Another sheep game! We filled our "three bags full" (actually 5 at a time), with the right number of cotton balls. Jack Be Nimble would have been proud of our little preschool friends as kids sorted the candle sticks from biggest to smallest. They had great fun acting out Jack Be Nimble as they jumped over a real candlestick. We then got a bit silly as we "walked around the candlestick, stood under it, jumped next to it" and so forth. "Doggy, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?" at circle time was a hit. We played this game to go along with Old Mother Hubbard. One child was the dog who closed their eyes, while another child hid the coveted rubber doggy bone. The "dog" got to guess three friends to see who was hiding their bone. Below kids used tweezers to feed a dog small little white bones, they weighed real small and large doogie bones to see which ones were heavier or lighter, and they got to help the doggie get to his bone using a magnet. Jack and Jill made their appearance as well. It is a good thing that we did not use real water in our bucket! The kids did a wonderful job falling! With some gentle guidelines, no one "broke their crown". Hot Cross Buns were all the rage as the kids made playdough buns (Yes, they were green!! I forgot to make brown playdough!!) and then put X crosses on them with pipe cleaners. They traded their buns with real pennies! Luckily, no one decided to take a bite! We used the same green dough to make patty cakes with letters on them for Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man. We helped the mouse run up the clock (another magnet trick) after we sang, Hickory, Dickory, Dock about a 1000 times! We also used a drum to beat out the "clock chime" during circle time. Kids counted along with the drum beat to count the chimes. Old King Cole, Merry, Merry Quite Contrary, and The Little Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe were featured as well.
There were so many other activities that we could not show as we forgot to get "no face" pictures! One favorite was making the Queen of Hearts tarts for our cooking project. We rolled out bread dough, patted it into a muffin tin, and then put a dollop of strawberry jelly inside. We baked them up and the kids gobbled them down. The knave never got a chance to steal any!
Did you like the Little Boy Blue paper tube horns that came home? I'm soooooo sorry for the noise!
We also made rain paintings for It's Raining, It's Pouring. We also sent home their Jack and the Beanstalk plants (They were really pea plants, I couldn't find my green bean seeds!) Mrs. Bailey had fun with the kids huffing and puffing, to blow the Three Little Pig houses down too!
