•MIXED-UP MITTEN GAME Looking for an indoor icebreaker for a group of children? This mitten game will surely warm up the crowd. First, have the kids remove their mittens and place them in a heap in the middle of a big room (you may need to push back the furniture). It's your job as referee to see that the pile is mixed up. Then, have the children stand in a circle around the pile (about ten feet away). At your signal, the players should race to locate their own mittens; the first child to find and don his winter gear and shout "mitten match" wins. You can complicate matters by including hats or boots in the pile, too >> • Mitten game- place brightly colored mittens cutouts on a game board and label them with numbers from 1 to 10. Have small white circles [snowballs] available for the children to place on the mittens according to their numbers. • Mitten Weather Game--Cut each child a mitten out of const. paper. Also cut out pictures of snowy places and sunny places out of magazines. Ask children to describe what weather they wear mittens in. Then show the pictures of sunny and snowy places. Hold up your mitten if this is a place you wear mittens. Put it behind your back if its not. • Matching mittens. -cut pairs ofmittens out of different textured fabrics. Mix up the shapes and put them in a basket. Hang a clothesline between two chairs and clip clothespins to it. Let children take turns finding the matching mitten shapes and hang them together on the line. • Mittens- children make mittens out of wallpaper samples and tie together with yarn. Label right or left. • Lacing mittens-cut large mitten shapes out of posterboards. Use a hole punch to punch holes around edges . Tie the end of a long piece of yarn through one of the holes. Dip the other end of yarn inglue to stiffen them for easier lacing. • Tell the story of the Three Little Kittens. • Mitten Song tune twinkle twinkle Thumbs in the thumb place. Fingers all together. This is the song we We sing in mitten weather. When its cold, It doesn`t matter whether, Mitten are wool Or made of fine leather. This is the song We sing in mitten weather. Thumbs in the thumb place, Fingers all together. •Don't forget the story....Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten for your unit on mittens. • From Jean Warren's Theme-a-saurs II... a flannelboard mitten story... Make a felt kitten and the various colored mittens in the rhyme My poor little kitten Lost her mitten And started to cry, "boo hoo." So I helped my kitten To look for her mitten, Her beautiful mitten of blue. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Under my mother's bed. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored red. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Under my father's pillow. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored yellow. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten On the hand of my brother's toy clown. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored brown. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Under the laundry so clean. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored green. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Inside a grocery sack. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colred black. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Inside my favorite shoe. And this time the mitten Was just the right mitten, For it was colored blue! •Adding to the mitten ideas, these are 4 versions of the traditional story which I read with my students. We love to compare and contrast and then make a class graph with our favorites. . .each book is special in its own way. Note: I believe the 3rd one is out of print-I found it at a yard sale. . .the book is actually shaped like a mitten. The 4th has less words than the others, for those of you who are teaching younger children. 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This mitten game will surely warm up the crowd. First, have the kids remove their mittens and place them in a heap in the middle of a big room (you may need to push back the furniture). It's your job as referee to see that the pile is mixed up. Then, have the children stand in a circle around the pile (about ten feet away). At your signal, the players should race to locate their own mittens; the first child to find and don his winter gear and shout "mitten match" wins. You can complicate matters by including hats or boots in the pile, too >> * Mitten game- place brightly colored mittens cutouts on a game board and label them with numbers from 1 to 10. Have small white circles [snowballs] available for the children to place on the mittens according to their numbers. * Mitten Weather Game--Cut each child a mitten out of const. paper. Also cut out pictures of snowy places and sunny places out of magazines. Ask children to describe what weather they wear mittens in. Then show the pictures of sunny and snowy places. Hold up your mitten if this is a place you wear mittens. Put it behind your back if its not. * Matching mittens. -cut pairs ofmittens out of different textured fabrics. Mix up the shapes and put them in a basket. Hang a clothesline between two chairs and clip clothespins to it. Let children take turns finding the matching mitten shapes and hang them together on the line. * Mittens- children make mittens out of wallpaper samples and tie together with yarn. Label right or left. * Lacing mittens-cut large mitten shapes out of posterboards. Use a hole punch to punch holes around edges . Tie the end of a long piece of yarn through one of the holes. Dip the other end of yarn inglue to stiffen them for easier lacing. * Tell the story of the Three Little Kittens. * Mitten Song tune twinkle twinkle Thumbs in the thumb place. Fingers all together. This is the song we We sing in mitten weather. When its cold, It doesn`t matter whether, Mitten are wool Or made of fine leather. This is the song We sing in mitten weather. Thumbs in the thumb place, Fingers all together. *Don't forget the story....Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten for your unit on mittens. * From Jean Warren's Theme-a-saurs II... a flannelboard mitten story... Make a felt kitten and the various colored mittens in the rhyme My poor little kitten Lost her mitten And started to cry, "boo hoo." So I helped my kitten To look for her mitten, Her beautiful mitten of blue. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Under my mother's bed. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored red. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Under my father's pillow. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored yellow. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten On the hand of my brother's toy clown. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored brown. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Under the laundry so clean. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colored green. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Inside a grocery sack. But, alas, the mitten Was not the right mitten, For it was colred black. I found a mitten Just right for a kitten Inside my favorite shoe. And this time the mitten Was just the right mitten, For it was colored blue! *Adding to the mitten ideas, these are 4 versions of the traditional story which I read with my students. We love to compare and contrast and then make a class graph with our favorites. . .each book is special in its own way. Note: I believe the 3rd one is out of print-I found it at a yard sale. . .the book is actually shaped like a mitten. The 4th has less words than the others, for those of you who are teaching younger children. The Mitten (retold by Alvin Tressett, ill. by Yaroslava) The Mitten (adapted and illustrated by Jan Brett) The Mitten (translated by Tom Bottingg, ill. by E. Bulator and O. Vasiliev) Any room for me? (retold by Polly Lawson, ill. by Loek Koopmans) *I also provide mitten-shaped paper at the art table with supplies for children to decorate their mittens or perhaps draw some animals that could be inside.