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Wind Warm-Ups added
9-30-98 Original Author
Unknown
Have the children imagine that
they are beautifully colored autumn leaves swaying in the autumn breeze.
Tape long crepe paper streamers to one child's arms so that she becomes
the breeze, winding her way through the leaves. The leaves begin to
flutter as the wind comes closer. When the breeze is full and hard, the
leaves break away from the tree and fall to the ground. Let the children
see how many different ways they can fall to the ground - gently floating,
spinning, swaying, bouncing, and so on.
Raking Leaves
added 9-30-98 Original
Author Unknown
Next ask your children to
pretend that they are out raking the autumn leaves. Have the children rake
all the leaves into a large pile. How will the activity end? Let the
children might want to play in the leaves
- rolling, sliding, and tossing.
~Perhaps the wind will pick up again and
undo all their hard work. The children can all wear streamers now and be
the wind.
~The children can stuff the leaves in large "bags". The children
choose partners. One child is the giant bag, holding his arms in a wide
open circle. The other child picks up armfuls of leaves and stuffs them
into the "bag."
Scarecrow
Movements added
9-30-98 Original Author
Unknown
Playing all types of instrumental music
(classical, jazz, modern, etc.) have the children move the way they think
a scarecrow would move in rhythm to the music.
Colored Leaf
Game added
9-30-98 Original Author
Unknown
Cut leaf shapes out of selected colors of
construction paper and place them in a paper bag. Have the children sit in
a circle. Let one child at a time reach in the bag and take out a leaf.
Explain that in order to keep the colored leaf, the child must name
something that is a matching color (a red apple, a yellow banana, my blue
shirt, etc.). Continue the game as long as desired, making sure that
everyone ends up with the same amount of leaf.
Squirrel and Nut
added
9-30-98 Original Author
Unknown
One child is chosen to be "it"
and is given a nut to hold. The other children form a circle, sitting on
the floor. They extend one hand and close their eyes. "It"
tiptoes around the inside of the circle and puts the nut into one of the
outstretched hands. The one who receives it jumps up and chases after the
other until he catches "it". He/she then becomes "it"
and the games proceeds as before. The children open their eyes as the
chase begins.
Bean Bag
Leaf Toss added
9-30-98 Original Author
Unknown
Make several loosely bean bags in leaf
shapes, red, green, orange and yellow. Set a bushel basket a few steps
away. The children stand behind a line and try to toss their bean bags
into the basket.
Walnut Hunt
added 9-30-98 Original
Author Unknown
Hide walnuts in the play yard. Suggest that
the children be squirrels hunting for
walnuts. Have the children put their nuts into a community basket. When
all the
walnuts are found, help the children count them.
Song for Walnut
Hunt
Sung to: "Ten Little Indians"
Little gray squirrels
Huntin' for walnuts
Little gray squirrels
Huntin' for walnuts
Little gray squirrels
Huntin' for walnuts
Storing them away for winter!
Nut Hunt
added 11-6-01
Submitted by: Ashley
Robertson
Check for Nut allergies
first! Depending
on the age group of the children involved, select several types of nuts (be sure
to use larger nuts for smaller children). Before your day starts, hide
nuts around your home or child care area. Demonstrate to the children how
you can act like a squirrel, and how you're looking for the missing nuts which
you had harvested. Enlist their "squirrely" help in finding
them!
Leaf Toss
added 9-2-02 Original
Author Unknown
Take a sheet, or a parachute. Gather real leaves, fabric leaves, or paper
leaves. Place them in the middle of the sheet. Gather around the sheet and
have the children lift the sheet slowly and then quickly to see how all
the leaves "float".
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