Make-It Topic: Giants

Imaginative:

• Set up a small city out of boxes let the children pretend to be giants
• Allow the children to re-enact the story of Jack and the bean stock
• Use a large fridge box for the children to make a tree house
• Provide materials for the children to pilot a large plane, boat, or train
• Set up a area for the children to pretend to be mountain climbers

Language:

• Read the story “Jack and The Bean Stock” 
• Read the story “The ant and the Elephant” 
• Have a mountain scene allow the children to make up a story 
• Read “How do dinosaurs count to ten” 
• Make a homemade book of giants  found in nature, animals, and man made
  

Art:

• Have a large paper and a small paper encourage the children to make the same picture on each  paper
• Have mac-tac cut outs of dinosaurs encourage the children to place colored paper onto them
• Have different size shapes allow the children to glue on different sizes
• Make boats to sail on water

Water/Sand:

• Place large ships in the water
• Place large dinosaurs in the sand
• Place elephants and giraffes in the sand
• Place whales for washing in the water table
• Place beans into the water table or sand table let the children sift through them (choking hazard)

Gross Motor:

• Use cleaned coffee cans with string to make stilts allow the children to walk with them
• Play big and small name different items if they are big have the children stand up if they are small have the children make themselves as small as they can
• Play ball using a very large beach ball
• Place out dinosaur prints have the children follow them
  

Science/Curiosity:

• Set up an ant farm for the children to view 
• Plant beans with the children 
• Place out a piece of cut tree with a magnifier glass explain how the rings are the age of the tree
  

Blocks:

• Place pictures of sky scrapers encourage the children to build them
• Place out different building materials such as margarine containers for building towers with 
• Place out materials for the children to build bridges place out pictures to see
  

Conceptual/Table Top/Fine Motor:

• Place out a dinosaur size game
• Make a large small file folder game

Music:

• Play drums and have the children dance large movements to it
• Make cup shakers

Quiet:

• Place some dinosaur puppets in the quiet area

Cooking:

• Use crackers cheese and ham to make towers and buildings
• Make egg boats with the children

Field trips:

• Go to the park and see how big the trees are
• Take a trip to Lethbridge’s giant the High Level Bridge