Bb •B Shape With Buttons or Beans B shape could have buttons or beans glued to it. Children just love to look at old buttons also. •Bee Wings The letter B could be the wings of a bee. For a big bee attach the letter B to a big blown up balloon. Be sure to discard the pieces when the balloon pops. •Bubble Prints Blow bubbles and pop them so they print on a B shape. Add blue food coloring to the bubbles for color. •Barbie Computer Program *We played on the computer with the Barbie program. •Boodley Man Made noodle pictures with the letter B and created fictional B characters with noodles. My fav----Boodly Man •Barney Starts with B Dance to loud Barney music or watch a Barney video •Draw B for the World to See Put shaving cream on lg picture window and finger painted. Drew the letter B and B things. (this lasted 2 hrs) •Play With Barbies Brought in snow and played in snow with Barbies (had all girls today) •Bead Necklaces Made Bead necklaces •Small Boxes Finger painted boxes •Play Ball Made nylon balls (threw into painted boxes in afternoon) •Feast on a Blanket Had lunch on a blanket •Beach Boys Played Beach Boys music •Binoculars With two empty toilet paper rolls per child, glue the rolls together to form binoculars. Punch holes at one end on the outside of the rolls and tie a string from one to the other so binoculars may hang around neck. Decorate with stickers, markers, or paints. Wear on walking field trips! •Fingerpaint Balloons Glue five lids (baby food lids) open ends up, in a semicircle on a piece of heavy cardboard and fill each cap with a different color of tempera paint. Have each child in turn dip all five fingers of one hand into the paint in the lids and then press them on a sheet of white construction paper to make prints. When the paint has dried, let the children draw lines down from their fingerprints, turning them into balloons with strings. •Painting with Balloons Pour three or four different colors of tempera paint into separate aluminum pie tins. Partially blow up a small balloon that matches each paint color. Then have the children dip the balloons into the matching colored paints and press them on sheets of white construction paper to create balloon prints. •Balloon Lotto Make a balloon lotto game by dividing a piece of heavy white paper into six sections and drawing a different colored balloon in each square. Cut matching colored squares out of construction paper. To play the game, have the children take turns placing the construction paper squares on top of the matching colored balloons. •Balloon Fish Partially blow up ten small balloons. Place them in a dishpan full of water. Set the pan on the floor and let the children take turns fishing for balloon fish with a food strainer. Help each child count his or her catch before putting the fish back in the pan. •Balloon Jump Blow up balloons and tie them with long strings. Then hang the balloons from the ceiling at a height that will tempt the children to stretch, jump and bat the balloons around. •Babies Ask parents to send some baby and new mother magazines and catalogs in. Invite the children to look through the magazines and catalogs and cut out pictures of baby items - highchairs, baby food, cribs, baby toys, bottles, diapers, playpens, and so on. Disucss how each baby item is used and then help the children glue the pictures to a large sheet of construction paper. Teach the children to sing "Rock-a-Bye Baby" - Invite them to share other lullabies they know. Encourage each child to bring a baby picture of himself or herself to school. Display the pictures on a bulletin board. Invite the childrn to guess who the babies are. Put in one of your own. •Balance Challenge the children to try walking with a book or beanbag balanced on their heads. Ask the children to stand with one foot lifted up off the ground. Then have them close their eyes. Discuss what happens! Tape a long strip of wide tape down the middle of a hallway floor. Challenge the children to walk along the tape line. See who can walk the farthest without stepping off the tape. •Ball Provide opportunities for the chidlren to practice bouncing playground or tennis balls. Have children bounce balls using both hands and then using only one hand. Invite pairs of children to bounce and catch and then throw and catch different size balls. Help the children make a large collage of pictures of baseball and basketball players. Invite the children to look through sports magazines to find appropriate picutures. Sponsor a basketball-shooting contest. Look for a lowered basket or have the children throw the ball or beanbags into a trash can instead. Discuss the various types of balls. Make a list of the balls the children name. Suggest that a children bring to school several different types of balls to share. Invite the children to draw pictures of their favorite balls. Read Curious George Plays Baseball. If possible, arrange for the children to practice batting using a large plastic bat and ball. Teach the children to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Point out that this tune is a favorite among dedicated baseball fans and is often sung during the 7th inning stretch of a baseball game. •Balloons (be very careful with balloon pieces near small children) Give each child a balloon. Have the children practice blowing them up. Help each child tie his or her balloon and play "Balloon Keep It Up". See how long the children can keep their balloons up in the air without letting them touch the ground. Show the children how to draw a balloon. Invite them to draw balloons on large sheets of painting paper. Suggest that they paint each balloon a different color. Read Benjamin's Balloon. Blow up and tie a balloon for each child. After the children have played with the balloons challenge them th sit on their balloons and pop them. Play "Balleyball" - a variation of volleyball. •Banana Take a survey - find out how many children like bananas - graph the results. Then make several different banana dishes for the children to sample - such as Banana Nut Spread (mix mashed bananas with peanut butter - spread on crackers), banana pudding, banana berry mix (slice bananas, add other fresh berries, top with yogurt and brown sugar). Make banana splits :-) - let the children cut their own bananas with a plastic knife. •Bathroom Invite the children to bring their favorite bathtub toy - fill a large tub with water and let the children float their toys or cut a large sheet of blue butcher paper to place on the floor. Read the Beast in the Bathtub. Help the children make a list of the items found in a bathroom. Encourage them to find pictures of these items in old magazines - use the pictures to make a collage. •Beads Provide opportunities for children to string beads. Start by having them string the beads in any order - then try to have them follow a pattern. Have the children sort beads according to attributes - size, shape or color. Draw a large letter B with glue on a sheet of construction paper - let them arrange the beads along the glue line to make the a "Beady B" •Beans Ask each child to bring one small bag of dried beans of any kind. Mix all the beans together in one large container. Have the children sort the beans. Teach them the names of each of the beans. Point out that beans are a vegetable. Make bean salad (mix green, wax and kidney beans top with ital dressing mixed with a little sugar). Have each child make a large letter B with glue on paper - glue the beans in the letter shape. Give each child one sectioned half of an egg carton and a large handful of dried beans. Post a number between one and ten (depending on the maturity of the children). Ask the children to count that many beans into each section of their egg cartons. •Bear Invite Loopy D. Bear to visit :-) Sponsor a "Bear Day". Invite each child to bring to school a favorite stuffed bear. Plan to have a Bear Picnic. Have the children make bear shaped invitations to take home to their teddy bears. Plan a Bear Menu - honey and peanut butter sandwiches, berries, carrot sticks, Berry Blue Kool-aid and bear shaped cookies. Help the children make a Welcome Bears sign to hang. Have each child draw a large letter B with a pencil on a piece of blue, black or brown construction paper. ive each child a small cupful of little bear shaped cookies. Have the children arrange the little bears along the drawn B. Teach the children to sing the Bear Went Over the Mountain. Read the B Book by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Read Country Bear's Good Neighbor. Focus the children's attention on the pictures. The book also containes a recipe for "Country Bear's Good Neighbor Cake" which makes a delicious treat. (The cake must be baked in the oven and has an apple-cinnamon flavor). Cut circles of various sizes from brown construction paper. Help the children arrange the circles on sheets of paper to make little bears. Suggest that they make a blue bow tie and glue on two buttons for eyes. •Beautiful Make "Beautiful B Banners" - cut large triangles from blue, brown or black const. paper. Have the children use paint, glitter, scraps and other materials to make a big B on the banner - have children cut out pictures from magazines of items that begin with the letter B - glue them to the side of the banner. Help the children make a list of beautiful items, such as a rainbow, a ring, or a sunset. Ask each child to draw a picture of the item that he or she thinks is the most beautiful. •Bird Make bird feeders. Mix birdseed and peanut butter together. Have the children use popsicle sticks or tounge depressers to scrape the mixture onto wide spaced cones. You could also string together pieces of bread, orange slices, cranberries and popcorn. Send home a list with the children of foods that birds will eat - have them bring one of these items in - then make the bird feeders from whatever foods they bring in. hang the food outside for the birds. If possible hang the feeders from a tree that can be seen from a window so the children can watch the birds eating. Make a large letter B with glue - sprinkle with birdseed. Wait a few minutes and shake the excess seed from the paper. Read The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck - make a bird from construction paper. Give each child two different circle patterns to cut out of colored paper. Glue the two circles on a half sheet of construction paper. Explain that the smaller circle is the head and the larger the body. Cut several 1x6" strips of construction paper - select four strips to make a tail for the birds. make diamond shaped beaks. add eyes •Birthday Make a large birthday cake from construction paper. Have each child draw, color and cut out a candle from const. paper. Write their names and birthdates on the candle and glue to the cake. •Blocks •Blow Make blow paintings. Put large dabs of watered down tempra on sheets of paper. With a straw, have the kids blow the paint around. •Blue Eat blueberries, make blueberry muffins and read Blueberries for Sal Have a blue day - have everyone wear something blue - make berry blue Kool- aid - read New Blue Shoes. •Boat Sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Paint, color, or draw a boat - make a boat from playdough •Body Play Simon Says - use parts of your body - such as "Simon Says wiggle your wrist" Sing Head and Shoulders Do the Hokey Pokey Look in catalogs for pictures of people - find pictures that include the entire body. Sing If Youre Happy and You Know It - substitute body parts such as If your happy and you know it beat your chest •Books Books Books!! Set up a "Book Center" - Sponsor a "Book Day" •Bread Read What Was It Before It Was Bread? - visit a bakery or make bread at home Get several different types of bread - have the children sample each kind - discuss how they taste alike or different - •Make Banana Bread Make Banana Bread using your favorite recipe and Butter - very easy - pour whipping cream and a touch of salt into baby food jars - shake until butter forms! •Make Biscuits •Breakfast Cut out breakfast foods from magazines - glue to a paper plate - write B is for Breakfast at the top Read Breakfast Time - have the children help prepare breakfast •Bridge Sing London Bridges Have children lie on their backs with their hands over their heads and push up to make a bridge. Have other children crawl under bridges. •Brown Give the children small dabs of red, yellow and blue or orange and black fingerpaint - have them mix them with their fingers - makes brown - have the children write B's in the paint. •Make "Brown Cows" (rootbeer float with choc. ice cream) explain how this drink got its name - "brown" is for the color of root beer and "cow" is for the milk in the ice cream. •Bumblebee Sing Baby Bumblebee Help the children cut out a simple bee hive from brown paper - and make a small bee. •Bunny Sing Little Bunny Foo Foo - add features to the letter B to make a bunny Read Runaway Bunny - visit a live bunny at a pet shop. Make Bunny Babies using halved hard boiled eggs - place on lettuce yolk side down - cut the other half lengthwise to form ears - add raisins for eyes and celery or carrot sticks for wiskers •Bus Watch Magic School Bus or visit a local school and see their bus' Sing Wheels on the Bus •Butterfly Fold white const. paper in half - cut out a butterfly shape. drop small amounts of tempra on one wing - fold and press Read the Very Hungry Caterpillar •Buttons Glue odd buttons onto a large letter B Sort buttons •Ball/Balloon in the Air Stand in a group with the children and tap up a ball/balloon. (Use two or three for a large group) Have the child closest to where the balloon starts to come down tap it up again with his or her hand. The object of the game is to see how long the group can keep the balloon in the air. •Bounce the Balloons Sing to: "The Mulberry Bush" This is the way we Bounce the balloons Bounce the balloons This is the way we Bounce the balloons, Gently in the air. •Big Bugs Give each child a potato for a body of a bug. Provide toothpicks, pins with colored heads, pipe cleaners, buttons, and colored paper to complete the bug. Have the children give the bugs names beginning with the sound of B. •Beautiful Blue Bunnies Give each child bright blue tempera or finger paint and have them paint a cut out shape of a bunny. Have each child tell something about their painting. Write out what the children say in their own words, then have them find and draw balloons around letter. •Balance Beam Use a balance beam to work with the children on balance and coordination. Have them practice walking frontward, backward, and sideways using slow and quick movements. Tape a B to the wall for the children to focus on as they work on the beam. •Bouncing Balls Work with balls to develop the children's bouncing and catching skills. Ask the children to call "B" as they bounce. •Bugs on a Bed Give each child a slice of Whole Wheat Bread. Have the children first put "bedspreads" on their "beds" using peanut butter, cream cheese or butter. Then have them put "bugs" on the beds using small edibles such as raisins, nuts, cereal bits, small pieces of fruit or vegetables. •Fun With Beanbags *play a type of tic-tac-toe game where they toss the bean bags onto a board and try to have them land on certain targets. *You could also put letters on the floor, have the children toss a bean bag, and have them name the letter that it lands on. More advanced children might think of a word that starts with the letter. *There is a whole album donated to bean bag activities...I think the name of it is BEAN BAG ACTIVITIES (appropriately so) I don't have the exact name or author/musician, it's at school. We got ours from our school products store but I've seen it in a number of school supply catalogs since then. *Also, Hap Palmer has a bean bag song on one of his albums called "The Bean Bag" *Play a game like musical chairs. Pass a bean bag (or two or three) around the circle until the music stops. Then start up again. Try to make it challenging by changing the way in which the bean bag is passed. Over the head, behind the back, between the legs, etc. *We add bean bags in our parachutte play and have it pop like popcorn. It does pop out but that's half the fun. *Play Simon Says with bean bags. *Put on some marching music and march with bean bags balanced on head, shoulder, out stretched arm or hand, finger, foot, etc. •Busy Bees Have children paint a paper plate yellow. Let dry. Then paint on black stripes, if desired. Cut out rectangles with a circle on top for the antanae. Glue that to the plate. Afterwards just add eyes (either draw them or use the googly eyes) and a smile. • Bubbles(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle) Bubbles floating all around (pretend to catch bubbles) Bubbles fat and bubbles round (make a big circle w/ arms) Bubbles on my toes and nose (point to toes; point to nose) Blow a bubble. ..up it goes! (pretend to blow bubble; point up) Bubbles floating all around. (pretend to catch bubbles) Bub. . .bles fall. . .ing to...the...ground. (sing slowly & sink to ground) •Balloon Match To make the game, draw or trace a picture of a clown holding a bunch of balloons on 8 x 12 poster board. Draw the balloons by tracing around a plastic milk cap. Youíll need to save caps in several colors. With markers, color the clown and each balloon to match your collection of milk caps. To make the board longer lasting, use Contac paper. • Ezekiel connected them dry bones (3x) I hear the word of the Lord. Your toe bone connected to your foot bone, Yor foot bone connected to your ankle bone. Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone, Your leg bone connected to your knee bone. Your knee bone connected to your thigh bone, You thigh bone connected to your hip bone. Your hip bone connected to yourback bone, Your back bone connected to your shoulder bone. Your shoulder bone connected to your neck bone, Your neck bone connected to your head bone. I hear the word of the Lord! Them bones, them bones gonna walk around (3X) I hear the word of the Lord! Disconnect them bones, them dry bones (3x) I ear the word of the Lord! Your head bone connected from your neck bone ....disconnect "bones" in desendin order... head, neck, shoulder, back, hip, thigh,knee, leg, ankle, foot, toe. I hear the word of the Lord! •Here's the REAL words to Dry Bones: Dry Bones Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" "Oh, hear the word of the Lord." The foot bone connected to the leg bone, The leg bone connected to the knee bone, The knee bone connected to the thigh bone, The thigh bone connected to the back bone, The back bone connected to the neck bone, The neck bone connected to the head bone, Oh, hear the word of the Lord! Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk aroun' Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk aroun' Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk aroun' Oh, hear the word of the Lord. The head bone connected to the neck bone, The neck bone connected to the back bone, The back bone connected to the thigh bone, The thigh bone connected to the knee bone, The knee bone connected to the leg bone, The leg bone connected to the foot bone, Oh, hear the word of the Lord! •“Bouncing Beautiful B” Books Peek-a-Boo by Janet Ahlberg The Baby's Catalogue by Janet Ahlbert Hush Little Baby by Aliki Who Sank the Boat - by Pamela Allen I Can Blink by Frank Asch Boats by Byron Barton The B Book by Stan Berenstain Big and Little by Ethel Berkowitz Country Bear's Good Neighbor by Larry Brimner Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle School Bus by Donald Crews Sleepy Bear by Lydia Dabcovich Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack Beady Bear by Don Freeman The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag The Three Bears by Paul Galdone Boat Book by Gail Gibbons Happy Birthday by Gail Gibbons Benjy and the Barking Bird by Margaret Graham Old Bear by Jane Hissey Sesame Street Big Bird and Little Birds Book of Big and Little by Emily Kingsley The Very Little Boy by Phyllis Krasilovsky The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies by Louise Mathews Bubble Bubble by Mercer Mayer Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey The Bears Bicycle by Emilie McLeod >From Grain to Bread by Ali MitgutschWhat Was It Before It Was Bread by Jane Moncure The Very Bumpy Bus Ride by Michaela Muntean What Next Baby Bear by Jill Murphy It's Your Birthday by Gena Neilson Big Paul's School Bus by Paul Nichols Benjamins Balloon by Janet Quinn-Harkin >From Egg to Butterfly by Marlene ReidelCurious George Plays Baseball by Margaret Rey New Blue Shoes by Eve Rice The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss The Beast in the Bathtub by Kathleen Stevens Breakfast Time by Gabrielle Vincent A Visit to the Bakery by Sandra Zeigler Big Brother by Charlotte Zolotow