1) Pooh Bear’s Stoutness Exercises: Pooh Bear, Pooh Bear turn around. " " touch the ground. " " reach up high. " " touch the sky. " " bend down low. " " touch your toe. 2) A Little Something: Biscuits and Honey Could try different kinds of honey to see if they taste different. 3) The Tigger Bounce: the children bounce a stuffed toy Tigger (or Pooh) in the middle of a blanket or parachute. Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie? Did you ever see a Tigger, a Tigger, a Tigger? Did you ever see a Tigger go this way and that? Go this way and that way, go this way and that way, Did you ever see a Tigger go this way and that? Could also do this song with each child having a turn on a junior trampoline, if you have one. 4) Rabbit’s Hole: Trace and pre-cut Rabbit out of poster board. The children can color him with markers or crayons. Glue him on the top of a tongue depressor. Cut a slit in the bottom of a paper cup, large enough for the tongue depressor to go through. Pull the tongue depressor down so that Rabbit is in his hole. Then pop him up to look out. 5) This activity is from Channels to Children: Glue Honeycomb cereal onto paper to represent the beehive. Draw bees with crayons. 6) Sticker match - Present the child with several small colored blocks on a tray. You put a Pooh sticker on each block; use two of each kind so the children can match them into pairs. 7) Play Pooh Bear Says (like Simon says) Wiggle your nose, touch your ears, clap your paws…etc. 8) Fingerplay: Here is the behive (make fist) Where are the bees? Hiding inside where nobody sees. Look! Here they come out of the hive… 1-2-3-4-5 (lift each finger) Bzzzzzzzzzz! 9) Additional activity for the rhyme above: we turned a small bowl-shaped plastic tub upside down and cut off the bottom. It’s supposed to be the hive with about an 8 inch hole at the top. We made five bees cut from poster board and attached paper clips. The children fished for bees in the hive, using a dowel with 18 " of twine attached to a strong magnet. Cloth tape is good for securing the magnet to the twine. Each child had a turn fishing out the bees, while we all counted 1-2-3-4-5 . 10) Another game with the hive: Make "bee" bean bags to toss into the hive hole. 11) Easel paint on a large balloon shape - give choice of paint color red or yellow. After the balloon is dry, help the child staple on a length of yarn attached to a small pre-cut Pooh Bear shape. Display on bulletin board with a sky blue background. 12) Make headbands with Pooh ears out of yellow construction paper or poster board. 13) Don't forget "Heffulumps and Woozles". Maybe paint rainbow colors on Elephant cut-outs! 14) Print yellow and red paint Winnie the Pooh prints on brown bee hive shaped paper. You can cut sponges into a simple bear shapes....you can cut miniature bees from the scraps of sponge and print with bee shapes, too. 15) "blustery day" blow paintings have children eyedrop blobs of paint on the paper and blow on them with straws 16) "Tut, tut, it looks like rain!" water colors on rain cloud shapes which have been rained on (water sprayed from spray bottle) 17) For Pooh week at our school, one day we made Teddy Bear biscuits. Use canned biscuits--you'll need 1 and 3/4 biscuits for each bear. Use one whole biscuit for the bear's face. Slice the other biscuit into fourths. Use two of the quarters to pinch at either side of the top--these are your bear's ears. Use another quarter for the bear's nose. Then use two raisins for the eyes. Cook as you would normally cook the biscuits. We had these with honey--all the children loved them. We also used rabbit shapes to make rabbit in his hole. Tape a craft stick to the bottom of the rabbit. Cut a hole in the bottom of a Styrofoam cup. Pull rabbit in and out of the hole. We made the Pooh headbands--just a strip of construction paper and two ears. I wrote the child's name the pooh on them (ex.--Tyler the Pooh). They enjoyed this. 18) We recently celebrated Winnie the Pooh's birthday at our school. It was a lot of fun! One thing we did was ask everyone to bring a Pooh (or friend) to show and tell. We also gave each of the children a small container (like maybe nacho cheese comes in) and put some honey in it. These were our "honey pots" and we ate the honey with our fingers. We also watched a Pooh video. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. 19) As part of the Winnie the Pooh" unit, we had a Pooh picnic. In a craft store I found those flat sponge pieces that can be cut and then when wet they expand into a sponge that is great for sponge painting.. I had purchased some coloring books to trace onto the sponge as well as pooh cookie cutters.. We took 12 by 18 white paper and sponge painted the characters:yellow for Pooh, blue for Eeyore, pink for Piglet, brown for Kanga,Roo and Owl and orange for Tigger. We then laminated them to use as our place mats for the picnic. The kids thought it was the greatest things to be on the floor using their mats as a table and having this picnic..They want to do it again, so on Tuesday we are going to have a Piglet Pizza Party and use the mats once more. 20) Hope you are going to read some Winnie the Pooh stories or watch a Winnie the Pooh video. Pooh likes balloon, you could have some balloon games. Carry a blown up balloon on a spoon and race across the room without the balloon falling off the spoon. Have them sit on a balloon and break it. (be sure to pick up the pieces so no one chokes on them.) Pin the bee on Pooh'snose. Snack has to include honey. Let the children help you make honey butter to spread on crackers or bread. Sweeten lemonade with honey, gives it a different flavor. Or sweeten tea with honey. Pooh is British and so it tea. When I did a unit on England some one suggested what they called monkey tea. It was half tea and half milk. You can even get decafe tea is you are worried about caffeine. Crafts, ---- how about dipping balloons in paint and making prints on paper.Eore's house is made of sticks. Could you glue brown yarn to a house shape for a house for Eore (sp?). Make an owl. Make little piglet noses from toilet paper rolls cut in half and attached to the child's face with yarn or elastic. Make rabbit ears. These can be made from a paper plate or just attach ears to a head band madeof heavy paper. Serve lots of things made with honey; watch the video/read the book; assign everyone names from the story and have them make up their own skit; use teddy bear cookie cutters to make Pooh cookies or sandwiches; cut off the top of 2 liter pop bottles, cover and decorate like "hunny pots"; pretend to be each character - jump and bounce like Tigger, whine like Eyore, etc.; find a Pooh coloring book and color; make a Pin the Tail - type game, using a picture of Pooh and pin the hunny pot or something else on him; make balloon Poohs - if you can find some balloons in the right color, blow up 2 for each child, making one bigger than the other, tie them together for a head and body, then cut out arms & legs from construction paper and use paint pens or white-board markers or even stickers to add features and details. Since many of you posted ideas for Winnie the Pooh themes, I thought I'd share a little of "The Bear's" history with you. I only know this as I bought the special package of commemorative stamps that were recently put out by Canada Post. In the booklet of stamps they told the story of how this bear became so famous. The story starts in the early 1900's when a young Englishman immigrated to Canada. He studied to be a veterinarian and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Keri?) When World War I broke out he enlisted to go overseas to fight. The troop train that was carrying his regiment to Valcartier, Quebec where they will board a ship for England, stops in a small Ontario town. While walking along the platform, this young man, Harry, bought a small black bear cub from a local hunter. He becomes the mascot of the regiment and Harry names it Winnie after his hometown, Winnipeg. Winnie soon becomes the darling of the soldiers and tame as any housepet. When Harry's regiment is sent to France, he takes Winnie to the London Zoo for temporary safekeeping. Winnie thrives in the zoo. Since she is so tame and playful, she soon becomes one of the zoo's main attractions. Harry survives the war and returns in 1918. He had planned on bringing Winnie back to Winnipeg, but changes his mind when he sees how popular she's become. He donates her to the zoo and returns to Canada. Winnie continues to entertain zoo visitors for another 15 years. One of these children is young Christopher Robin Milne, who makes his first visit to the zoo at age 5. For 4 years he has been inseparable from his stuffed bear, Edward. He becomes captivated by the bear at the zoo and his name, Winnie. He renames his own bear Winnie the Pooh. "Pooh" comes from a swan that Christopher had befriended, and named, while on a holiday with his parents. Christopher's father started writing children's stories inspired by Christopher and his exploits with his favorite bear. Walt Disney read the stories to his own children and decided to introduce these stories to North American filmgoers. The first movie came out in 1966, "Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree". It was a huge hit and after two more movies, this bear was famous around the world. 21) Hope you are going to read some Winnie the Pooh stories or watch a Winnie the Pooh video. Pooh likes balloon, you could have some balloon games. Carry a blown up balloon on a spoon and race across the room without the balloon falling off the spoon. Have them sit on a balloon and break it. (be sure to pick up the pieces so no one chokes on them.) Pin the bee on Pooh'snose. Snack has to include honey. Let the children help you make honey butter to spread on crackers or bread. Sweeten lemonade with honey, gives it a different flavor. Or sweeten tea with honey. Pooh is British and so it tea. When I did a unit on England some one suggested what they called monkey tea. It was half tea and half milk. You can even get decafe tea is you are worried about caffeine. Crafts, ---- how about dipping balloons in paint and making prints on paper.Eore's house is made of sticks. Could you glue brown yarn to a house shape for a house for Eore (sp?). Make an owl. Make little piglet noses from toilet paper rolls cut in half and attached to the child's face with yarn or elastic. Make rabbit ears. These can be made from a paper plate or just attach ears to a head band madeof heavy paper. Serve lots of things made with honey; watch the video/read the book; assign everyone names from the story and have them make up their own skit; use teddy bear cookie cutters to make Pooh cookies or sandwiches; cut off the top of 2 liter pop bottles, cover and decorate like "hunny pots"; pretend to be each character - jump and bounce like Tigger, whine like Eyore, etc.; find a Pooh coloring book and color; make a Pin the Tail - type game, using a picture of Pooh and pin the hunny pot or something else on him; make balloon Poohs - if you can find some balloons in the right color, blow up 2 for each child, making one bigger than the other, tie them together for a head and body, then cut out arms & legs from construction paper and use paint pens or white-board markers or even stickers to add features and details. Since many of you posted ideas for Winnie the Pooh themes, I thought I'd share a little of "The Bear's" history with you. I only know this as I bought the special package of commemorative stamps that were recently put out by Canada Post. In the booklet of stamps they told the story of how this bear became so famous. The story starts in the early 1900's when a young Englishman immigrated to Canada. He studied to be a veterinarian and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Keri?) When World War I broke out he enlisted to go overseas to fight. The troop train that was carrying his regiment to Valcartier, Quebec where they will board a ship for England, stops in a small Ontario town. While walking along the platform, this young man, Harry, bought a small black bear cub from a local hunter. He becomes the mascot of the regiment and Harry names it Winnie after his hometown, Winnipeg. Winnie soon becomes the darling of the soldiers and tame as any housepet. When Harry's regiment is sent to France, he takes Winnie to the London Zoo for temporary safekeeping. Winnie thrives in the zoo. Since she is so tame and playful, she soon becomes one of the zoo's main attractions. Harry survives the war and returns in 1918. He had planned on bringing Winnie back to Winnipeg, but changes his mind when he sees how popular she's become. He donates her to the zoo and returns to Canada. Winnie continues to entertain zoo visitors for another 15 years. One of these children is young Christopher Robin Milne, who makes his first visit to the zoo at age 5. For 4 years he has been inseparable from his stuffed bear, Edward. He becomes captivated by the bear at the zoo and his name, Winnie. He renames his own bear Winnie the Pooh. "Pooh" comes from a swan that Christopher had befriended, and named, while on a holiday with his parents. Christopher's father started writing children's stories inspired by Christopher and his exploits with his favorite bear. Walt Disney read the stories to his own children and decided to introduce these stories to North American filmgoers. The first movie came out in 1966, "Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree". It was a huge hit and after two more movies, this bear was famous around the world.