Recipes for Fun
Sometimes, it is fun to take a concept – RECIPES – and show children that there are many ways of thinking about it.
If a recipe is a list of ingredients with directions for putting them together so they turn into something, then there a whole lot of things we can make recipes for.
A Recipe for Fun
Ingredients
1 Teacher
5 Children
5 Rubber Balls
2 Laundry Baskets
Have the children set up the laundry baskets on opposite ends of the large group rug. Bounce the 3 rubber balls into the center of the rug. Encourage the children to bounce, throw, and play. Observe how they make up their own games with the balls and baskets.
Good Friends Recipe
Ingredients
All the Children in this Room
Nice words
Smiles
Kindness
Lots of Playing
Mix together all day long and friendship will result.
A Recipe for a Good Day
Ingredients
Not too hot and not too cold weather
A little bit of sunshine
Good friends all around
A morning snack
An afternoon nap
A delicious lunch
Lots of time outdoors
Play, play, play
A teacher who loves us
Books, books, and more books
Make sure you check off each of the ingredients above to create the perfect day!