These students could simply pick out the picture they wanted to add to our fairy tale. For my nonverbal students, I had pictures of various fairy tale-like characters, places and related items. Each child was given an opportunity to add to the story. We did this by going around the circle with the teacher starting off with “Once upon a time”. I decided it would be fun to create a class fairy tale. That is the one that Cinderella must have been wearing to the ball! Hide a different shoe each time – the children love playing with them and trying them on as well. The children become detectives and must match (and describe, discuss) the pairs of shoes until they find the one without a match.
Have a large basket full of various types of silly shoes (sneakers, roller blades, ballet slippers, clogs, etc.) and remove one shoe. Play Cinderella’s lost shoe game by telling the children that Cinderella was actually wearing a different kind of shoe to the ball. Then you and the other children say, “The Giant is Coming!” The child now becomes the giant, walking backwards, with large heavy giant steps until they are safely back on their magic line. Encourage the child to lift their knees and use their arms while climbing.
At the bean stalk, the child then pretends to climb up. Have the children individually pretend they are Jack tip toeing quietly towards the bean stalk. Make a magic line with some masking tape and have children sit on the line. Staple green leaves onto the stalk and hang from a high place at one end of the room. Twist paper bags, and staple them together to form a bean stalk. Concepts: forward and backward walking light and heavy feet stretching and lifting This is a great creative movement play for using various parts of the body. Blindfold a child, spin them around and they try to put the “kiss” on the frogs mouth.Īs a dance teacher I love to create various ways in which children can delight in their own movements from head to toe. I made a large cutout frog shape from green felt, used a lip rubber stamp to make kisses, laminated them and then put Velcro on the back. They love the feel of this! We have another pool filled with soapy water to wash our feet in.įor fairy tale week we play a game of “Kiss the Frog”.
Very slippery so hold your students hands.
Then we put the porridge into a small baby pool, add a little water, take off our shoes and socks and walk in it. We take a spoonful and run, skip, march, ect… to fill up the bowl at the other side of the playground. This is very messy but the children love it! It has to be nice outside to do this, first we have relay races with the porridge. This was a very popular game.įor snack we make oatmeal (Three Bears porridge, we make extra to use as our large muscle fun. We had one wolf, and when he was coming, all of the children in the straw house had to run to the next house. In the beginning, the children get to pick what house they get to go into. For the brick house, we put cardboard on it and colored bricks. For teaching the “Three Little Pigs” I covered one of our play huts with some cheap grass skirts for the straw, and for the stick house, we taped sticks around the opening.