Make-It Topic: Baskets

Imaginative: 

• Place a variety of baskets for the children to play with 
• Have Easter baskets set out with bunny ears 
• Place a variety of food with baskets and make a basket store

Language: 

• Teach the poem “A Tisket A Tasket” 
• Read “Dora’s Easter Basket” 
• Use a flannel board with a basket and different items, allow the children to tell a story about the basket

Art: 

• Weave paper baskets 
• Place sticky paper in the shape of a basket, encourage the children to use die cuts to fill the basket
• Make May Day baskets to give to the children’s family
• Paint a basket

Water/Sand: 

• Add solid and holy baskets to the water table 
• Place different weights of baskets in the water to see what floats 
• Place small baskets into the sane with shovels and sifts

Gross Motor: 

• Have the children try to balance a small basket on their heads and walk 
• Play pass the basket
• Have a basket hunt

Science/Curiosity: 

• Have a variety of sizes of baskets for stacking 
• Graph the types of baskets you have
• Mark on a map where baskets are used around the world 
• Have a scale, allow the children to weigh the baskets

Blocks:

• Add baskets to the blocks for building with 
• Have wood baskets for stacking

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Have matching basket color game 
• Sort items into different baskets 
• Have pictures of different sized baskets encouraging the children to place them in large to small sequence

Music:

• Add baskets with shakers 
• Allow the children to discover what noise the basket makes when you hit it with different objects

Quiet:

• Have some basket books for the children to read 
• Place different objects in a basket for play in the center

Cooking:

• Make bread baskets

- Use Pillsbury dough crescent rolls, cut pieces into strips, allow the children to make a basket from the dough

• Place food in a basket for the children to dish out

Field Trips:

• Go to the store looking at different baskets 
• Go for a walk and collect objects in a basket