Make-It Topic: Mail

Imaginative

• Set up a post office for the children to explore 
• Set out mail persons outfits 
• Place out a mailbox for the children to mail letters in

Language

• Read the poem “Five little letters” 
• Five little letters lying on a tray
  Mommy came and took the first one away
  Daddy said this one’s for me
  I counted them twice now there are three
  Brother Bill asked did I get any mail
  He found one and cried, “A letter from Gail!”
  My sister Jane took the next to the last
  And ran upstairs to open it fast
  As I cant read I am not able to see
  Whom the last one is for but I can hope it’s for  me 
• Write a thank you letter to the mail persons and give it to them
• Read “Tortoise Delivers the Mail”
• Write letters to the children’s self and mail them 
• Find another day home and write letters to that day home

Art

• Set out envelopes for the children to finger paint
• Make stamp pictures 
• Place out rubber stamps for making prints on paper 
• Use milk containers to make mail trucks 
• Collect square stickers or stamps allow the children to make a collage of stamps/stickers 
• Make a mailbox from a milk carton 
• Place out magazine pictures of different places allow the children to make a post card

Water/Sand

• How much can fit place a bunch of different sized  containers  and a scoops allow the children to count how much water or sand fits into each one 
• Place envelopes in the sand 
• Place different stamps in the sand for the children to find

Gross Motor

• Use a fan and different papers place the paper in front of the fan allow the children to catch the papers 
• Place out a mailbox allow the children to throw bean bags into the mailbox 
• Play a find the letter game leave footprint clues

Science/Curiosity

• Weighing mail place out a variety of types of mail and boxes for the children to weigh 
• How does the mail feel place out different types of paper for the children to feel provide a magnifying glass also

Blocks

• Place out pictures of large buildings and different types of post boxes for the children to build 
• Place out little people and houses for delivering mail to

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor

• Make dominos out of envelopes allow the children to match numbers and dots 
• How many stamps place a number on a post card have the children match the number of stamps 
• Place out different size envelopes and card stock paper allow the children to match the two 
• Make a mail the letter game use a file folder place out round stickers in different colors make a dice have the children see what path they can take to mail a letter 
• Place out laminated post cards for the children to practice writing on 
• Place magnets on the back of stamps place them into a baggy with magnets to find the different stamps 
• Sort boxes that go into the mailbox

Music

• Sing “Mailing letters” 
• This is the way we mail a letter mail a letter, mail a letter, This is the way we mail a letter so early in the morning (add this is the way we lick the stamp, write the name, stuff the envelope)

Quiet

• Use a flannel board and place a mail person to dress and a mail box with some people

Cooking

• Have special delivery pita pockets 
• Pita bread, ham, cheese, tomatoes 
• Allow the children to build a letter sandwich

Field Trips

• Go to the local post office for a tour 
• Walk to a local mail box deliver letters for friends 
• Walk around the block looking at different mailboxes and addresses on the houses