Make-it Topic: Grandparents

Imaginative:

• Set up a grandparents house place out cookies, rocking chairs, and other things the children feel remind them of their grandparents house
• Make a bakery for baking grandparents favourites

Language:

• Read “Grandmothers chair”
• Do the finger play grandmas spectacles
• These are grandmas spectacles (make fingers around the eyes)
  and this is grandmas hat (hat in triangle on top of head)
  this is the ways she folds her hands (fold hands in lap)
  and puts them in her lap
  these are grandpas spectacles
  and this is grandpas hat
  and this is the way he crosses his arms and that is that.
• Learn to say grandma and grandpa in  a different language ex. Opa ,Oma ,Baba Papa

Art:

• Make a grandparents goodie jar using baby food jars with glued on tissue paper filled with candy
•  Place out shapes and yarn allow the children to make a picture of their grandparent
• Make a photo frame for grandparents
• Allow the children to make cards for grandparents
• Make hand and feet prints

 Water/Sand:

• Measuring cups and spoons in the water table
• Place wood pegs in the sand
• Place crochet needles in the sand table

Gross Motor:

• Learn a folk dance
• Go on a grandpas glasses hunt
• Get different shoes such as boots have the children walk in grandpas shoes

Science/Curiosity:

• House sounds: place out items that make sounds from a house
• Soft  and hard: place out items that are soft and hard from around the house
• Have pictures of how things were before electricity; make candles

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Match the hearts
• Modeling clay with cookie cutters
• Match the grandparents
• Card lacing
• Match the eye glasses

Music:

• Sing Down on Grandpas Farm
• Add some shakers

Quiet:

• Place large pillows and teddy bears

Cooking:

• Make blueberry muffins  for grandparents day
• Make bagel faces

Field Trips:

• Visit a senior center
• Invite the children’s grandparents in for a tea