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Buggy Wuggy added
6-27-98 Original Author
Unknown
Do the Hokey Pokey dance with the children but
substitute the parts of an insect or spider for
the human parts. For example: "Put your feelers or antennae
in, Put your wings in, Put your stingers in, your backbones,
your legs, etc.
Ants
in a Tunnel added 9-9-98
Original Author Unknown
A tunnel was combined
with two floor mats allow the children to be ants In
The Tunnel. This was a great favorite.
Bee Hive
Game added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Small box, brown paper,
Construction Paper, Pictures of things that start with 'B', Picture of
other things that don't. Cover a small box with
brown paper to make a beehive. Cut a slit in the top of the
beehive and label it with the letter B. Cut bee shapes out of construction
paper. Glue pictures of things that have names
beginning with B and pictures of things that have names beginning with
other letters on the bee shapes. Explain to the
children that only the bees that have pictures of things
whose names begin with 'B' can go into the 'B' hive. Then let the children
take turns
selecting a bee and deciding whether or not it can go
into the beehive.
Queen Bee
Game added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Children sit in a circle
on the floor. The Queen Been walks around the circle tapping children on
the head and saying, "Buzz, buzz, buzz", with
each tap. Each child tapped gets out of the circle and
follows the Queen around. When the Queen calls, "Go make honey"
those tapped and the Queen bee run off to an
empty spot. The last one to the spot is the new Queen Bee.
Kid Chrysalis
added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Children can wrap each
other in toilet paper (excluding their head) so they can feel what it
would be like to be a caterpillar in a chrysalis
(similar to a cocoon).
Have them close their eyes and imagine that they are about to
become butterflies. Have them stretch their "wings" and tear
through the toilet paper chrysalis. Recycle toilet
paper to be used with a different project!
Butterfly
Relay Race added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Cut out flower shapes
from construction paper. Set or tape the flowers along one wall of the
room. Divide children into three or four person relay
teams. Have the children stand opposite the wall
of flowers. Explain that the goal of the game is to "fly" to a
flower, tag it, and fly back to the team. Each
butterfly in turn takes a turn, until everyone on a team has touched a
flower.
Butterfly
Hopscotch added
9-9-98 Original Author
Unknown
Purchase butterfly
stickers. Draw hopscotch on the sidewalk or floor. Each player needs a
beanbag to toss. The players take turns tossing his/her
beanbag into the squares. The child is to try to
name the stage of the butterfly on the picture or kind of butterfly
his/her beanbag has landed on. He goes until he
cannot name what his beanbag has landed on. then he will wait in the
"butterfly wing" for his/her next turn.
Caterpillar
to Butterflies added
3-31-02 Submitted by:
Kimberly Wilson
Put those springy crawl-through tubes to good use this spring.
"Scrunch" one down and let a child climb in. Give him a
colorful scarf. Bring up the tube and say your favorite
caterpillar-to-butterfly poem. "Scrunch" the tube back
down and let the butterfly fly out! Kids love this during a study of
creepy crawlies. Fun thing to put in a movement center as well!
Worm Hunt
Game added
3-16-03 Original Author
Unknown
Get a pack (or 2 or 3) of red pipe cleaners. Cut them into 2-inch lengths.
Before the kids arrive, hide the pipe cleaners in the yard. For the little
kids, hide in obvious places, harder places for older ones. The children
hunt for the "worms", and bring them to paper cups in the middle
of the yard. You can do counting activities as they find the worms.
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