There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Thursday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: 

Thursday!

Crafts:

• Cottage Cheese Carton Basket: Cottage Cheese Carton, tissue paper, paper fasteners, construction paper, pipe cleaners, green crepe paper grass

1. Cover an empty cottage cheese carton with tissue paper, finger-painted paper, or ruffled crepe paper.
2. Use paper fasteners to hook on a paper handle, or make a handle from pipe cleaners.
3. Fill with green paper grass.

• Fluffy Chick: Cotton balls, yellow powdered tempera paint, construction paper, crayons

1. Drop some cotton balls into a bag with some yellow powdered tempera paint.  Shake well to turn the cotton yellow.
2. Then, draw an outline of a chick on paper.
3. Glue the cotton balls inside the outline to from a cute, fluffy chick.

• Pom Pom Bunny Frame: Pom poms(white-1" two 1/2", two 10mm; Orange- 3/4, 1/2", 10mm; Pink 5mm), Pipe cleaners(hot pink 6mm, pink 6mm, green 6mm, White bump), two 5mm gogglie eyes, pink and yellow fun foam, white paper, black marker, magnet strip, 1/4" hole punch

1. Make a square frame from the pink fun foam (3 x 3)  Cut out a (1 x 1) inch square hole out of the center of the frame.
2. Take pink pipe cleaner and glue it around the square to form a frame.
3. Glue orange pom poms to bottom right frame to form a carrot.  Use small pom pom at bottom and then go up in size.  Curve carrot a little.  Use green pipe cleaners for the stems of carrot.  Make 3 small loops for carrot tops.
4. Glue the biggest pom pom above small frame and in the middle.  Then on each side of bunny's head glue a white pom pom for the hands of bunny.
5. On the face of bunny glue eyes, smallest pink pom pom for the nose and the two small pom poms for the cheeks.
6. Make a loop with the white pipe cleaner  for the ears and place a pink pipe cleaner in the middle of the ear.  Make a second ear.  Glue them onto the back of the bunny's head.  
7. Take a hole puncher and punch out 10 yellow holes. Keep dots for frame and glue them around the frame.
8. Write "Some Bunny Loves You" on paper , glue behind opening.  
9. Glue magnet on back.

Activities:

• Hop-Along Game: Roll of 2" -wide painter's tape (or masking tape), playground ball (or soft, medium-size ball with a little "give".  1 for each child.

1. Mark a starting and finish line on the lawn by laying a 6-foot-long strip of tape along the ground.  Roll out the tape, sticky side down, in 12-inch sections, pressing it down with your feet as you go.
2. Have the children line up.  Give each child a soft playground ball to put between with it in place.  
3. When you announce "Ready, set, go!" all the children hop down the lawn, trying not to let their balls go.
4. When a child drops his ball, he simply places it back between his knees on hopping.
5. Allow all the children ample time to hop down to the finish line and back one or more times.
6. When everyone is tired, call for a rest.  ("Looks like we're tiring out those balls! Time to give them a rest.")

• Bouncing Bazooka Bull's Eye: Laundry basket, large unbreakable mixing bowl,  masking tape, plastic eggs or ping pong balls

1. This game should be played against a wall clear of furniture.  
2. Position the laundry basket snugly up against the wall.  
3. Place the large mixing bowl on the floor, 3 feet in front of the laundry basket.
4. Use the masking tape to create a pitching line 6 to 8  feet away from the wall.
5. Tape masking tape around the eggs so that they don't fall apart.
6. Your child stands behind the pitching line and tosses the egg or ball against any area of the wall, trying to get the ball to land either inside the basket or bowl for a bull's-eye.
7. Each ball must bounce against the wall before dropping inside the basket or bowl in order to score a point.  
8. Score 5 points for each egg or ball in the basket and 10 points for each ball in the bowl. If a ball bounces inside the bowl and bounces out again, score 7 points.

• How To Make Ana Egg Float? Egg, 2 drinking glasses, water, salt

1. Pour water into one glass until it to half full.  Put the egg into the water.  Notice what happens.
2. Now add 3 tablespoons of salt, stir gently, and observe what happens.
3. Pour water into the second glass until it is half full.  Stir in 10 tablespoons of salt.  Slowly add fresh water until the glass is full.  Do not stir.  Gently lower in the egg.
4. In the fresh water the egg sinks.  As you add salt, it floats higher and higher.  When you add fresh water to the very salty water, the egg is suspended in the middle.
5. The denser the liquid the greater its upward life, or buoyancy.  Salt makes the water denser.
6. When you add fresh water to the salty water, it remains on top.  The egg sinks through it and floats on the lower, denser salty water. 

Snacks:

• Marshmallows (all sizes and colors) and peanut butter:  To make bunnies just put peanut butter on the marshmallows and they will stick together.  Your child can eat away the marshmallows to make bunny ears.  

Music/Rhymes:

• Little Bunny Foo Foo: Words are found on the traditional music website

• Bunny Pokey Sung to: "Hokey Pokey"

You put your bunny ears in
(Place hands on head to make ears)
You put your bunny ears out.
You put your bunny ears in.
And you shake them all about.
You do the Bunny Pokey
And hop yourself around,
That's what it's all about!
Additional verses: "You put your bunny nose in, You put your bunny tail in,
You put your bunny paws in"

My daughter loves this song, they taught it to her at her school and she is always singing it.

• Very Cute Bunny and Easter songs for the kids at Child Fun Website

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. Word
2. Look at the whole word carefully
3. Say the word aloud 
4. Spell the word. Say each letter aloud.
5. Write the word from memory.  Cover the word and write it.
6. Check your written word against the correct spelling.
7. Circle errors, and repeat steps 4 and 5.  

Numbers

• Play a game of chutes and ladders with your child and have them count out each step.

• Number play:

1. One person does something like clap hands 3 times and everyone must match them.
2. Then, the next person does something like hop on one foot, for 5 hops.
3. Then, the next person picks something to do like touch their toes 8 times.  
4. Keep this up until someone runs out of things.  You can do things like: touch your nose, flap your wings, spin around, stick out your tongue, etc.

Books:

• Max's Easter Surprise(Max and Ruby) by Rosemary Wells
• Max's Worm Cake (Max and Ruby) by Rosemary Wells
• In Elmo's Easter Parade by Naomi Kleinburg 
• Happy Easter Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Thursday!