Make and Take With Libby

2004





Butterfly Puppet
Make a caterpillar from an unused paint roller.
Make a butterfly out of cloth. Add pipecleaner antennae
and pompom eyes. Stuff the butterfly into the hollow of
the caterpillar. Tell the life cycle of the butterfly and
in the end, pull the butterfly out of the caterpillar!


Five Little Monkeys
This goes super on the Chicka Chicka cookie sheet we made last year, but if
you didn't make one, get you a cookie sheet, decorate it with a palm
tree (pattern is included here).
The monkeys and alligator are cut from felt with magnets attached
to the back side.
Monkeypieces.




Beads
These beads are cut into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
member segments. Each number is cut from the same color.
You will cut 5 of each segment. The
ones will be all
cut from the same color. You will then change colors to
cut your 2's. Each number should be represented by only one color.
The child first explores these beads by categorizing and patterning
however
they want. After this first step, the child can order the beads.
When this is accomplished, the child sees how many twos
does it take to equal the 10 bead. How many reds does it
take to equal purple? Then they
can pick two and add them together. Then add 3 together.
These beads have many functions.


Pattern Worms
These little worms are appropriate to color in a pattern.
Put them in a tall cup you have covered or painted brown
to look like dirt. As you pull one worm up at a time,
the child tells you what the next color will be�guessing
at first, but then relying on the knowledge of the pattern.
Do one that is randomally colored. This one will help them
understand why the others easy,
but this one in not predictable.
worm patterns


Crown Jewels
These simple individual board games can accommodate
1 to 4 players. Looking at the board pictured above,
the circle is a jar lid that I wrapped in foil.
This is the cache where the jewels are kept.
The crown is cut from gold wrapping paper.
The trail is just a one row/10 column table.
Then the cube is a die. I have 4 boards like these.
The trail color matches the die color (just for management purposes).
I put 5 jewels in the pot. The child rolls die and moves
stones from pot to crown. The stones cannot jump one another.
When 5 stones are on the crown, child wins. I like this game
because each child has control of their own board and they are not
bothered with "so-and-so" moving the board and knocking their jewels off!
It is competitive, yet each child must get their jewels on the crown
before the game is finished. When they get more proficient at this
version, I tell them that they must land on the crown with the exact
amount on the die.
Click here for the pattern.
These games can be made to fit many themes.
I have farm animals in a fence for the cache, and a barn for where
the animals go to. And I actually use animal toys to move along
the trail. I also have fish in a bag (the bag is drawn on the board and
this is the cache where the fish are to begin with). Then they travel
along the trail to an aquarium.


Sticks.
There are many activities that you can create
for centers using craft sticks.
Which dot? The sticks of each pair have the same number and placement
of colored dots. Put 5 dots evenly spaced out on a tongue depressor
BUT leave one off and put that one on a second depressor.
Do several like this. The child matches them.


Hello, Good-Bye pocket chart

multi-cultural pictures; sentence strips

I make new friends the more I grow.
Did you ever wonder why?
It�s much more fun to say �hello�
Than to have to say �good-bye.�

Hago amigos nuevos cuanto m�s crezco,
�Te has preguntado alguna vez por qu�?
Es mucho m�s divertido decir "�hola!"
Que tener que decir "�adi�s!".

Write several hello/goodbyes in other languages and put in chart as it is read and reread
�Hola,� �Adios.� Spanish
�Salam,� �Maasalaama.� Arabic
�Jambo,� �Kwaheri.� Swahilli
�Bonjour,� �Au revoir.� French
�Privvet,� �Do svidaniya.� Russian
�Namaste,� �Alavidha.� Hindi
�Bongiorno,� �Arrivederci.� Italian


Little Gorilla
The idea for this story was taken from storyplace.com.
The file folder is cut to resemble a cage. Color the gorillas many colors.
As you tell the story, move the top page to the back revealing the different
gorilla�s colors.
gorilla sheet


Graph Bag
This activity, once introduced to the children, is a great center.
The bag has a graph glued on the front. In the bag are manipulatives
(we used erasers found at the dollar store). The students graph the
erasers, or whatever manipulative you choose to use.
For the younger learners, the graph is color- coded.
Also in the bag is an addition work mat that follows the
color codes on the graph. For the older learners, the mat
can simply be questions pertaining to the graph.


A-Hunting We will Go pocket chart story
write on sentence strips:

Oh, a-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go,
We�ll catch a _________ (fox) (kitten)
And put it in a __________(box) (mitten)
And then we�ll let it go.

Other rhymes: dog/log; goat/boat; mouse/house; duck/truck

A cazar iremos,
a cazar iremos,
agarraremos un(a) (gata) (rata)
y la pondremos en un(a) (lata) (mata)
y luego la dejaremos ir.

Otras rimas: rata/mata; gallo/tallo; perro/cerro; gallina/tina; conejo/espejo



Lace Match
This game uses either business card sheet protectors or
baseball card sheet protectors. You put copies of the
various lace into the sheet protectors
then have swatches of the lace available for the child
to match to the copies. Excellent for finding detail and
observation skill development.


Shape or Pattern Matches
When the sticks are matched, the two halves form a simple shape.
Placing more than one shape per stick makes this activity a bit more
challenging. Patterns can be matched too.


Odd/Even Chart
This chart is used to make easy the odd/even concept.
Use the number that is associated with the day�s date.
Put a marker beside the number of the day on each day.
Ask the class if the number is odd or even.
Then ask how they knew it was �even�. There are 3 different responses.
1. The number is under the �even� word.
2. The number has a partner. and
3. It ends with 0, 2, 4, 6,or 8.


Ladders
You begin with one word and the picture that identifies with that word.
Then you begin changing one letter at a time until you
create the final word.
Students read the word and verify with the picture.



Tray
This activity is also very simple to create. To perform this activity,
the student needs the tray and a small wad or two wads of paper.
The tray is printed out and programmed to fit the needs of your
students (i.e.: number identification, addition, subtraction, literacy
activities). For addition, the student throws two wads paper and adds the
numbers they land on. To extend this activity, have the students write the
addition sentence.
Click here for the template.


Shape or Pattern Matches.
When the sticks are matched, the two
halves form a simple shape. Placing more than one shape per stick
makes this activity a bit more challenging. Patterns can be matched too.



Scouring Pad Work Board
Several scouring pad pieces are placed on their proper place on
the work board. The smaller flip strips are attached at the bottom.
The child picks the proper shape from the work board to finish
the pattern or analogy.
Click here for the patterns.


Circle shapes
Cut the circles from the art foam. Cut shapes from the center of
each foam circle. Put these on the copy machine and make tag copies if each.
The child matches the foam circle negative space to the proper tag
circle.



Silly Friends
Take a picture of child doing what words say and post picture on page upsidedown

Silly Destinee painted at school,
Upside down, looking cool.



Wiggle Worms
Program the Wiggle Worms with any concept that needs drill.
I put random numbers, letters, words, colors, or shapes.
I have a classroom set made and whenever we are having to wait,
I pull them out of my apron and pass them out. They do the one
they were handed then trade with a classmate. Small stickers, such
as farm animals, work well on these too.
Worm pattern



Triangle fraction puzzle
Child sees various ways to divide a triangle into subsequent congruent
triangles. The child will reflect on this skill when they have to produce
theorems in geometry. Scouring pads are used to create this puzzle.



Shadow Outline matching
With this game, the child matches the object on the card to the
transparency. The card has the detail of the object but the
transparency just has the silhouette of the object.


Gift Bag Poetry Center
Take a gift bag, cut the front and back panels out leaving the handles
in tact. Glue a poem to the back of the bag that goes with the picture
on the bag. Super easy poetry center! Hang these on a knob somewhere,
add a cute pointer.





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