Make-it Topic: Ants

 Imaginative:

• Set up a picnic with the ant, set out blanket with food and dishes and place out plastic ants or paper ants
• Make an ant hill home from a cardboard box, have some antenna head bands

 Language:

• Do the finger play “Little Ant”

o One little ant, two little ants, (point to a finger for each number) three little ants I see. Four little ants, five little ants, lively as can be. Six little ants’ seven little ants, eight in a bowl of glass. Nine little ants ten little ants Entertain our class

• Read “ The ant and the grasshopper”
• Read “ One hundred hungry ants” 
• Read “Hey little ant”

 Art:

• Place out several washable black and red ink and white paper, encourage the children to place their fingers in the ink and make ants on the paper
• Make egg carton ants and paint the desired color
• Draw an ant hill on brown construction paper tear small pieces of black paper allow the children to glue the ants on
• Place out shoe prints with paper ants to glue on
• Use contact paper in the shape of an ant and tissue paper to make tissue ants

 Water/Sand:

• Place out plastic ants and jars with spoons
• Have an ant washing station sponges and plastic ants
• Place golf balls in the sand table for eggs
• Place turkey baster out in the water and candle jelly

 Gross Motor:

• Cut out large ant hills out of brown paper, place a shape on each one, in a bowl make circles with the shapes on them, draw a shape from the bowl and have the children move like an ant to that shape
• Do an ant march using fun different music

 Science/Curiosity:

• Make an ant farm
• Have an ant under a magnifies glass 
• Place out pictures of ants
• Place out different pieces of fruit and food outside and watch the ants to see what food they like

 Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Ant sorting
• Ant lacing cards
• Ant hill counting; place ant hills out with a number on it and encourage the children to place that amount of ants on the hill
• Ant match ups
• Have the game ants in your pants
• Have a shoe matching game

 Music:

• Sing “The ants go marching” while marching

 Quiet:

• Place out the ant and the grasshopper flannel board story

 Cooking:

• Make ants on a log

o   Celery, peanut butter, and raisins

§  Spread the peanut butter on the celery place on the raisins

• Make ant hill coleslaw

o   3 carrots, 3/4 cup raisins soaked, 1/2 – 3/4cup cottage cheese, juice from ½ lemon, salt, and pepper

§  In a mixing bowl combine the ingredients mix and chill and serve

Field Trips:

• Take a walk looking for ants and their hills 
• Go to the Helen Schuler Center do their bug wall