Make-it Topic: Tea

February 2013

Tea Center Ideas

Imaginative:

• Set out a tea party, use real cookies and water in the tea pots 
• Place out bears on chairs, fancy dresses, ties and have a formal tea party 
• Place out old coffee makers, old tea kettles cups for a restaurant 
• Place out sushi  rolls and tea for a Japanese tea

Language:

• Read “Miss Spiders Tea Party” 
• Read “Tea for me Tea for you” 
• Use Here’s a Cup for a flannel board game or a fun movement poem
  Here’s a cup, and here’s a cup and
  (make a tea cup with fingers)
  here’s a pot of tea.
  (Hold up thumb)
  Now pour it and pour it and have a drink with me. 
• Read “Chadu” Discuss Japanese tea ceremony

Art:

• Paint using tea bags 
• Place out cloth napkins allow the children to make a washable napkin 
• Paint with cookie cutters
• Make clay sugar bowls 
• Paint on coffee filters 
• Place out glue and ground coffee for a college 
• Make a tea bag collage
•  Paint/color/rubbings on a tea pot cut out 
• Do tea bag/coffee filter tie dye

Water/Sand

• Place out tea pots in the water table 
• Use colored water and tea cups in the table 
• Place sponges shaped as tea bags in the water

Gross Motor

• Make a tea pot piñata 
• Sing I’m a little tea pot 
• Coffee beanbag toss

Science/Curiosity

• Show the types of tea leaves and tea in bags 
• Place out a bowl of water with tea bags show how it changes 
• Grow mint for tea

Blocks

• Place out wood blocks and small cloths 
• Place out houses and people

 Conceptual/Table top/Fine motor

• Place out different colored tea pot cut outs match the colored tea bag 
• Make coffee play dough 
• Lace tea pots 
• Make a tea pot puzzle 
• Tea bag sorting 
• Match the tea cup with saucer 
• Place coffee in a zip lock bag securely closed allow the children to trace letters in it

Music:

• Sing I’m a little tea pot 
• Make coffee bean shakers for singing with

Quiet

• Place out small cups of non-caffeinated tea and cookies with a few books to relax with 
• Place out large pillows with a table and tea books

Cooking

• Make Iced tea

4 Tea bags (non-caffeinated), 1 lemon, 2 cups sugar 4 cups hot water, pitcher. Boil water steep the tea for 5 min add the desired amount of sugar (can use honey to sweeten) place in ½ lemon juiced serve

• Make scones with jelly to serve with the tea 
• Make tea snacks using cucumber, tuna, cheese on crackers

Field trip

• Go to the local coffee/tea shops for a tour