Kk IDEAS
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*KITES
Use construction paper and have each child make their own kite by
cutting a design they might
have seen. Use yard and ribbon to make a tail. Hang from the lights or
window for display.
*KEYS
Provide an assortment of keys for the children to look at, talk about,
sort and count. After they
have had time to do these things, have them pretend they have a special
key to open anything in
the world. Ask them what they would use their key. You could have them
draw a picture of their
story and you could write their story on the picture.
*KEEP IT UP
Before hand, blow up a balloon and write the letters Kk on it. Have the
children blow up the
balloon and tie it shut. The children can now see how long they can keep
the balloon up in the air
without letting it touch the ground. Every time they touch the balloon,
the can say the letter "K".
*KANGAROO POCKETS
Provide a half slice of Pita, or pocket bread for each child. Show the
children how to butter it and
put a slice of cheese into it. Have them wrap it up in aluminum foil and
place in the oven for a
short while.
*Kk CARD
"What letter is this?" "What sound does it make?" "Does anyone's name
start with the letter K "
Ask someone to find the letter K on the wall alphabet. If the similarity
between hard C and K
comes up, explain that C and K sometimes make the same sound and move
on.
*SANDPAPER Kk
Trace the letter K with two fingers; then let each child trace it also.
(a child has more control with
two fingers than one)
Make a K in the air, in the air.
Make a K in the air, in the air.
Make a tiny, tiny K
Make a great big K
Make a K in the air, in the air.
(tune:"If You're Happy and You Know It.")
*Kk OBJECTS
Show label K and the objects. Ask children to identify each object and
to say its initial sound. Ask
if they know anything else that starts with K.
*KANGAROO HOP
Kangaroo hop. Before you can hop like a kangaroo you must know what a
kangaroo is like. Ask
questions about the kangaroo and then build on your child's knowledge.
The kangaroo comes
from Australia and in the United States can only be seen in zoos.
Kangaroos have large back legs
that they use to make long hops. How far can your child hop? How far can
you hop? Who
hopped the farthest? Who has bigger legs? Is it possible that there is a
relation between the size of
the legs and how far you can hop? Does this mean that as we grow we can
hop farther?
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Ll IDEAS
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*Ll LACING CARDS
Use old greeting cards you have received and glue the two folds
together. Punch holes around the
edge in various patterns. Give each children a piece of yarn and they
can practice their sewing
skills by lacing cards.
*LEAP FROG
Ask the children to play a game of leap frog. Every time they leap over
a person, they can say the
letter "L".
*LAZY LUMPS ON LOGS
Children make great lazy lumps on logs. This is a wonderful outdoor
activity. I love to do this on
a nice summer day or in the winter when you need a fast moving outdoor
activity. Find a nice
grassy area or soft new snow. Have your child lie down with his arms by
his side and roll like a
log. What kind of a pattern do their shoulders make? Pretend you are on
a gentle hill, then a
steep hill. How does a log roll in each case? Can the children
understand that a log will roll faster
on a steeper hill? You may wish to cut a small twig and place it in a
box at different angles to see
when the twig starts to roll and when it rolls the fastest.
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Mm IDEAS
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*MASKS
Give each child a paper bag to fit over their head. Help them to cut out
openings for eyes, nose
and mouth. Supply a variety of materials for them to decorate their
masks.
*MARCHING
Pretend you are in a marching band and have everyone play an imaginary
instrument. March
around the room to music or make your own.
*MONSTER MASH
Give each child a bowl and a fork. Have them mix and mash 1/2 banana,
1/4 C. Applesauce, 1/2
Tsp. Honey and 1 Tsp. peanut butter. Have them sprinkle the top of their
Monster Mash with
Cinnamon and eat.
*MEASURING
Which weighs more- a cup of macaroni or a cup of mini-marshmallows; a
cup of macaroni or a
cup of m&m's
*MR. Mm
Mr. M is a blow up huggable that the children get to interact with. He
has a munching mouth
which is his wonderful characteristic. We will talk about foods that
are safe to munch. We will
also look at lots of real food products from the grocery store and we'll
try to figure out the ones
that begin with m. We'll try doing that by saying Munching Mouth
__________ fill in the blank
with muffins, marshmallows, margarine etc.
*MAGIC WANDS
Make magic wand with straws and any type of streamers, ribbon etc.
Decorate it any way you
like, tape on the ends. Don't forget to write Mm on it.
*MONKEY SONG
Sing No more monkeys jumping on the bed. Use how many children you
have in your class and
sing the song to have them fall of the bed (roll to the floor).
*MIME TIME
Be a mime ; Act out what ever you want but do not talk !
*Mm MOUNTAINS
Pre draw M's on a long piece of butcher paper, have the children go over
the m's with markers.
*USE MAGNETS AND MAGNIFYINGGLASSES
*Mm IS FOR MOUNTAIN
Choose a fun kind of paper. Construction paper is a good choice, but do
not limit yourself. You
and your child may want to pick neon colored or textured paper. Pick two
colors, one for the sky
and one for the mountains. On the paper for the mountains tell your
child he will draw two tall
mountain peaks that will make the letter "M". Demonstrate the shape. As
you show your child
how to make the monstrous mountainous "M" say "One line up. One line
down. Then another line
up and another line down." That makes the letter "M". Your "M" should be
almost as wide as the
paper. When your child has his "M" cut out, glue it to the bottom of the
sky paper. Spend a few
minutes running fingers up and down and up and down the "M". Run your
fingers in the direction
that you would write a "M". As fingers are ran over the "M", make the
"M" sound. Try nut to
stutter the "M" sound. Instead, make the sound a constant humming "M"
sound.
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Nn IDEAS
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*NOODLE ART
Color various noodles with food coloring and a small amount of rubbing
alcohol. Use different
colors. Pour out on paper towel on a cookie sheet and let dry. Have the
children design a picture
using the noodles.
*NECKLACE RELAY
Divide the group into two teams. Provide an old cheap necklace, or one
you have made from
noodles, for each team. The first player in each line puts the necklace
around his or her neck and
shakes hands with the next person in line. The second player must remove
it and place it on their
head, so on and so on. The first team to have everyone wear the necklace
wins. You can also
do this activity with a mens neck tie. Makes the game more challenging.
*NACHOS
Let the children take a serving of chips and you can melt Velveta Cheese
for a more mild taste or
use Nacho Cheese and serve in small bowls for them to dip their chips
in.
*Nn COLLAGE
We colored the letter Nn and glued on noodles
*NEAT NECKLACES
We made necklaces using a piece of tipped yearn and all different shapes
and sizes of beads
*NAPKIN CRAFT
Use eyedroppers with colored water solution dripped on napkin and put on
colored construction
paper.
*NOAH'S ARK
Paint a piece of construction paper blue(sky) on top and green(grass) on
the bottom. Cut a paper
plate in half and paint one half brown(the Ark) We cut out two white
clouds and one yellow sun,
and glued them on top. We glued animal crackers all around the Ark and
on the green grass. We
also typed Gen.7:8-9 (All creatures, male and female, came to Noah and
entered the Ark.
*NUMBER NECKLACES
Precut out nut shapes and put number 1,2,3 on them. Punch a hole on the
top of each on so the
children can lace them. Then provide stickers so the children can add 1
sticker for #1 etc... Then
lace into a necklace.
*PLAY NAME THAT TUNE
*COUNT 9 NOODLES
*PENNY / NICKEL GAME
The object is to get all the nickels you can. You will need a handful of
nickels, six pennies for
each player, and one die. Explain that five pennies are the same as one
nickel. It may be necessary
to draw a picture of this concept and place it in front of your child.
To make this picture, trace
five pennies and color them brown. Then, trace a nickel and color it
gray, silver, or leave it white.
Put an equal sign between the two and explain that this means "the same
as" or "is equal to". To
play, roll the die and take the same number of pennies as the number you
roll. Each player counts
his pennies as he places them on his money picture. When a player gets
enough pennies to trade
for a nickel he must trade his pennies in that turn. Make the game more
challenging by adding
dimes, then quarters as your child's understanding of money increases.
To keep an older child on
his toes, you can add more rules. For example, you could add the rule,
if you forget to trade and
are caught with five or more pennies you lose all the coins not traded.
Once you trade for the
highest coin in the game, you can't lose that coin. However you play
remember to keep it fun.
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Oo IDEAS
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*O NECKLACES
Have the children string Cheerios on yarn or string. Be sure you knot
the one end before they
start stringing their necklace to prevent the O's from falling off.
*O BUTTON PICTURES
Give each child a handful of buttons or O-shaped cereal to glue to a
paper in the shape of an O.
Encourage the children to use their imaginations to create a picture
around the O, using the letter
as part of the design. Example, the outline of a face.
*DUCK, DUCK GOOSE & RING AROUND THE ROSIE
Sit in a circle (the letter O) and play the game of Duck, duck, Duck,
duck, Goose. / Go in a circle
chanting.
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Pp IDEAS
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*PUDDING PAINTING
Mix up several batches of instant pudding for the children to finger
paint with
*POLKA DOT Pp'S
Prepare a P for each child to cut out and decorate with polk-a-dots. Use
buttons, paints, stickers,
etc.
*PASS THE POTATO
Have the children sit in a circle, let them pass a potato around by
tossing it as you play music.
When the music stops, whoever is holding the potato is "out."
*SPIT Pp'S
A ditto with the letter Pp, the children color it in (trying to stay in
the lines) then we will glue on
dried split peas
*Pp COLLAGE
A paper plate collage using things that begin with the letter p (pink
and purple tissue paper,
popcorn, peanuts, etc)
*PAINT
Paint with pink and purple
*POPSICLE STICK PUZZLES
A successful P activity is to make POPSICLE stick puzzles. The children
line up POPSICLE
sticks(line them up side by side, forming a rectangle) and use masking
tape to tape them together.
They write
their name on each stick and turn the sticks over. They color a picture
on the POPSICLE sticks.
When finished, they take the tape off, mix up the sticks, and do their
puzzle. They love
exchanging puzzles with friends. If a piece drops, it's easily returned
since the children's names are
on each POPSICLE stick!
*POPCORN Pp
Cut a p out of strong paper and let the children glue on popcorn.
*PORCUPINE
A small potato/two small craft sticks/uncooked spaghetti/wiggle eyes;
break craft sticks in half
and place on bottom of potato for legs; glue on wiggle eyes; break
uncooked spaghetti into pieces
and stick into potato
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Qq IDEAS
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*Q-TIP PAINTINGS
Have the children paint pictures using Q-Tips.
*QUACK, QUACK
Have the children squat and waddle like ducks, flapping their wings.
*QUARTER PRINTS
Cut out the letter Q and take a quarter stamp and stamp quarter all over
the Q. To make a stamp-
Take a quarter and hot glue on the end of a round clothespin. Then
stamp in the ink. makes a
nice print! Older the quarter is- better the PICTURE comes out..
*QUARTER RUBBING
Take a piece of typing paper and place over the quarter and rub it with
a crayon! Use both
sides of the coin!
*QUIET GAME
Play the "quiet game." Challenge the children to see how long they can
remain quiet.
*QUILT
Give each child a piece of graph paper and have them color each square
to make a quilt. Tape
together to make a large class quilt.
*Qq FOODS
Quiche, Quaker oats
*QUILLS
Take some feathers and sharpen the tip so the children can use it as a
writing tool ----- like our
forefathers used them
*20 QUESTIONS
Make at least twenty cards with questions on them. Some I used were: "Do
you like pickles?" -
"What is the first letter of your name?" and "How tall is your mom?"
Divide the questions in two
piles and mark each pile with either heads or tails (Quarter - involves
another Q word.) The
children then flip a quarter (only one of my children had ever even
tried it, so that brought cute
results) to determine which pile their question would come from. Those
who could not read found
the question mark, then had me read their question.
*???????
For Q I like to introduce the question mark (?) even to 3 & 4 year
olds. We have a question day
where the kids and the parents come to class with an item inside of a
cube that I have put question
marks all over. Then we play 20 questions to guess what the item is.
When I read a big book to
them they are alert to finding the question mark on the page and they
race to see who is the first
to find it. They have such a good time with this activity and yet they
are learning early about
reading and punctuation.
*LETTER Qq
We folded a 12x18 sheet of pastel paper into 16 even sections, then let
the kids use Q-tips and
water color paints to create a "patch" for each square. The kids had a
ball, and the "Quilts"
turned out to very unique.
*CLASS QUILT
Have each child make his piece for the class quilt. She used colored
construction paper
decorated with crayons, paint, etc She "sewed" the pieces together with
yarn. Her kids were old
enough to use a hole-punch on their projects- the holes need to go all
the way around the paper,
as close
or as far apart as you wish- but she did the holes one inch apart. to
help with the spacing, she
used a fine-tipped marker to make the pattern for the holes on each
child's paper.
Now, when you "sew" the pieces together, use a thick, thick yarn and a
large plastic needle so the
kids can help here, too. lace the papers together, and go around the
edges of pieces that are on
the outside, too. her dimensions were: five papers across x six papers
down. (three classes
altogether contributed). it is a huge quilt! our director hung it in
the main hallway!! beautiful!
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Rr IDEAS
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*RAINBOWS
Have the children paint rainbows using water colors. Have them tell you
where they think
rainbows come from.
*ROBOTS
Have the children move around the room as robots. Give them commands
like "stop", "go", "sit",
etc..
*RADISH
Help the children plant radish seeds in milk cartons - they grow fast!
*RADISH PRINT Rr
Cut radishes in half with a sharp knife. Give each child a plastic lid
filled with red tempera paint.
Have each child draw a large letter R with a red crayon - dip the radish
halves in red paint and use
them to rubber stamp along the crayon line to make a Radish R
*RAISON Rr
Glue raisins in the shape of an R
*MATCHING
We used rabbit erasers, from Oriental Trading catalog, to sort and
count. We took plastic eggs
and wrote numerals 1 - 10 on them. Then they placed the correct amount
of rabbits in the eggs.
*RICE Rr
Color the letter R and then glue on rice
*Rr IS FOR RECTANGLE
Make rectangle collages include big and little rectangles, thin and fat
rectangles.
*Rr IS FOR ROCKS
Gather rocks and put in a plastic tub, let children classify rocks into
sizes (big, medium and small)
on to a big piece of paper, a medium piece of paper or a small piece of
paper with the
corresponding words written on each size paper
*Rr RED DAY
Have a red day and everyone wear red Read the book Red is Best
*RUN
Run the mile or have relay races
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Ss IDEAS
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*SCRIBBLE ART
Have the children scribble on a piece of paper with black crayon. Then
have the children use other
colors to color in the sections between the scribbled lines. They will
be surprised at the colorful
picture they end up with.
*STRAW PAINTING
For each child place a small drop of tempera paint in the center of a
large piece of paper. Give
each child a straw and have them blow (lightly) the paint around the
paper to make a design.
*SKIPPING
Teach the children how to skip. Show them how to Jump and kick on
alternate feet or to step and
hop on alternate feet.
*SCRIBBLING ART
Have the children scribble on a piece of paper with black crayon. Then
have the children use other
colors to color in the sections between the scribbled lines. They will
be surprised at the colorful
picture they end up with.
*LITTLE SKUNKS HOLE
I stuck my head in a little skunks' hole ,
and the little skunk said "Oh bless my soul"
" TAKE IT OUT , TAKE IT OUT REMOVE IT !!!!!!!!!! "
Well i did not take my head out of the little skunks' hole and the
little skunk said
"Oh bless my soul ,
TAKE IT OUT TAKE IT OUT REMOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
PSSSSSSSSSSSST
Tooooooo late .
*SALTY SURPRISE
Paper, watercolors, paintbrushes, salt shaker, water
Let the child paint a picture using regular watercolors. Allow the child
to shake salt on his
painting while it is still wet. When the painting dries it will
sparkle!!
*SINKS AND FLOATS
What sinks and what floats? Fill a sink or small tub with only a few
inches of water. Collect
different objects from around the house and place them one at a time
into the water. What sinks
and what floats? Why do you think that this happened? You may want to
draw a picture of each
object, next to it write the name of the object, and if it sinks or
floats. Then give your child a piece
of paper with a line drawn down the center. On one side write "sinks"
and on the other write
"floats". Have your child draw pictures of what sinks and what floats.