Make-it Topic: Pirates

Imaginative:

• Set up a box with flag for a pirate ship have pirate costumes out and birds
• Place out treasure boxes filled with jewels and maps for following
• Flip a table upside down for a pirate ship use chip containers for telescopes. Use orange bags for nets to catch fish

Language:

• Read Peter pan
• Read “How I became a pirate”
• Read “Do pirates take baths”
• Place out a flannel board with a ship and pirate encourage children to tell a story

Art:

• Make hook hands place a cardboard hook into a Styrofoam cup allow the children to decorate it
• Make eye patches using black foam and elastic
• Have the children paint hats use stickers to decorate it
• Use pool noodles cut into chunks to roll in paint and roll
• Place out paper and materials for rubbings to make a pirate flag
• Place out small boxes allow the children to decorate the treasure box
• Make telescope from paper tubes
• Use a square piece of material tie dye head bands
• Place out a parrot picture allow the children to decorate them
• Make swards out of cardboard allow the children to paint them

Water/Sand

• Place boats into the water table
• Place small boxes and shovels with letter x’s in the sand table
• Place fish and sponges into the water table
• Place jewels and sifts into the sand table
• Place different materials in the water to see what sinks and floats (also science)

Gross Motor

• Make a scavenger hunt using pictures for the children to follow
• Make milk carton ships and race them
• Place different size boards on the ground and raised have the children walk while counting to the end at the end have the child jump, walk backwards, skip when they are off
• Play pin the patch on the pirate
• Use pop bottles decorated as pirates to bowl over

Science/Curiosity

• Place out different compass for the children to explore
• Place out magnetic items
• Place a small boat in a bottle add water and oil
• Place out sea shells to explore

Blocks

• Place out boats and people
• Place out a tan blanket buckets and treasure to build with

Conceptual/Table top/Fine motor

• Match the parrots game
• Lace a pirate beard
• Place out play dough with jewels
• Place out maps of places for the children to move or  trace
• Place out play money for counting and sorting
• Place out a map with spots and a chest at the end have the children roll dice to move to the chest
• Flag matching game
• Cannon firing place a cannon with a number, letter, or color have a ball to match with

Music

• Make drums for pirate music
• Sing the song Pirate play
• [one] little pirate (s) went out to play on a pirate ship one day, he had suck enormous fun he called on another pirate to come  …Five little pirates went out to play on a pirate ship one day they had such enormous fun they played and played till the day was done

Quiet

• Place out a parrot and book for curling up with

Cooking

• Make pirate ships
• Apples, cheese, small piece of fruit leather cut apple wedges use a tooth pick place cheese cube on and poke into apple use fruit leather as the flag
• Make a pirate mix use pretzels for peg legs cereal balls for cannon balls banana chips for gold coins mix and enjoy

Field trip

• Go to the local park and go on a treasure hunt
• Go to the boat store look at different boats