Crafts

 

1. My Body Book

Day 1: A Self Portrait

Day 2: body pictures with naming body parts

Day 3: foot prints

Day 4: Put the child’s handprint on a piece of paper, write the words  "I Am Special" on the page

Day 5: Write how old the child is, how tall the child is, and how much they weigh on a piece of paper. Attach the pages with yarn to a make a book

2. Handy Book

Need: Paper, scissors, paint, markers or crayons

Directions: On a piece of folded construction paper trace a child's hand. Cut out the hand, leaving the fold uncut. You end up with a hand-shaped booklet that will open up. Place small amounts of paint in shallow containers. Let the children decorate their hand books by doting their thumb or fingers with paint making thumb prints or finger prints. Print each child's name on the outside of the book.

3. Body Tracing

Need: A child, large bulletin board paper, crayon or pencil
Directions: Have each child to lie on a large piece of paper. Trace the child's body and let each child decorate his/her tracing.                                                                                            

4. Sponge painting craft

Draw a picture of yourself.  (If you use paint, cut out a small "C" sponge for the mouth, circles for the checks, ears, and use the cotton swap for the eyes or even the mouth.)
Make hand and/or finger prints using paint.                                                                                        

5. Body Craft

Use a body pattern (it doesn't have fingers) or color a boy or girl coloring page. Label the body parts.
You can use this movable boy or girl doll to show the different body parts.  It has on it, "My body is special because Heavenly Father made it like His!"                                                       

6. Finger Painting

Set out various colors of paint and allow the children to use their fingers to paint.

7. Puppets

Have children create puppets with their own hair color.  Use yarn for the hair.  Cut out eyes, nose and mouth using construction paper and glue on to a paper lunch bag.

8. Feet painting

Set out a large piece of butcher paper and allow the children to paint using their feet.

9. Face Book

Glue pictures from magazines of faces, onto construction paper.  Attach them together with yarn to make a book.

10. Handprints

Make the children’s handprints on construction paper using paint.  Make a frame to go around them using Popsicle sticks.                       

 

Activities

 

1. Hokey Pokey

You put your right hand in, You put your right hand out, You put your right hand in, And you shake it all about, You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around That what it's all about.

(1)left hand

(2)right foot

(3)left foot

(4)head

(5)whole self

2. Head and shoulders

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes, knees and toes.

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

And eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

Ankles, elbows, feet and seat,

Feet and seat, feet and seat,

Ankles, elbows, feet and seat,

And hair, hips, chin and cheeks.

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes, knees and toes.

Ankles, elbows, feet and seat,

And eyes, ears, mouth and nose. 

3. I can Move

Ask the children to move their bodies in different ways. Wiggle your toes, Scrunch your nose, Swing their arms, Stomp their feet, shake their head; Shrug their shoulders and anything else you can think of.

4. Parts of Body

Talk about different parts of the body.  Have the children point to these parts as you’re talking.

5. Growth Chart

Weigh and measure each child.  List the results on a growth chart that you make with the children.  Use butcher paper to make your chart and have children decorate it.

6. Feet Feeling

Place different textured mats on the floor.  (Bathmat, Sandpaper, Blanket, mouse pad)  Talk to the children on how each one feels. Let them walk on them with bare feet.

7. Aerobics

Put on some music and do some exercises together. (Knee bends, side bends, toe touches, swaying, bouncing, arm stretches and walking)

8. This little piggy

Say and do actions to this little piggy.

Big Toe-This little picky went to the market

Next Toe- This little stayed home

Middle Toe- This little piggy ate roast beef

Next Toe- And this little pigged ate none

Baby Toe- But this little piggy went wee, wee, wee all the way home.

9. Copy Cat

Get the children to copy your actions: (Clap your hands, stomp your feet, dance, jump up high, shake your head, stretch your arms, touch your nose, close your eyes, turn around)

10. Follow the footprints

Cut out shapes of footprints and lay them on the ground. Have the children follow the footprints.  Where do they lead to? Have different paths they can follow.

 

Songs

 

1. 5 Little fingers

5 little fingers on one hand

2 little feet on which to stand

2 little arms to hold up high

I can jump up to the sky

Momma’s little baby a kiss can blow

And rub noses just like so

2 little hands can clap, clap, clap

10 little toes to tap, tap, tap  

2. Two Eyes

I have two eyes to explore with

I have two feet to jump with

I have two hands to hug with

But for a nose, I have just one

I have two ears to hear with

And a tongue to taste with

And two red cheeks for you to kiss

But for now, I think I’ll sit.

3. Just like Me

Pat, pat, pat your knees

Pat them just like me

Pat, pat, pat your knees

Pat them just like me

Shake, shake, shake your head

Shake it just like me

Shake, shake, shake your head

Shake it just like me

Stomp, stomp, stomp your feet

Stomp them just like me

Stomp, stomp, stomp your feet

Stomp them just like me  

4. Wiggles

I wiggle my fingers

I wiggle my toes

I wiggle my shoulders

I wiggle my nose

Now all the wiggles are out of me

See how still I can be.     

5. Body Parts  (Tune:” Jingle Bells”)

Clap your hands,

Clap your hands,

Clap them just like me.

Oh, what fun it is to clap,

And sing so joyfully.

Other verses:

            Touch your toes

            Wiggle your nose

            Stretch up Tall

 

Stories

 

1. My Hands

What can I do with my hands?  Many things such as clap and hold things.  Hands have different parts to them as well.

2. My Feet

Your feet can do many things such as walking, running, tip toe.  Names the parts of the foot.  What types of things do we wear on our feet?

3. Look at your Eyes

Names the parts of your eyes. Look at your eyes, what do you see?  What color are your eyes?

4. Brush Them Bright

A boy is always forgetting to brush his teeth so his mom decided that she would make a chart.  If he brushed his teeth in the morning and before he went to bed he got a sticker.   When he got stickers everyday for a week he would get a surprise.  He ends up making up a song to help him remember and then finishes a whole week.  His mother buys him a hamster for his surprise and says “I think your old enough to take care of a pet since you have shown me you are old enough to take care of yourself.”

5. How Many Teeth?

Babies have no teeth but then they start to grow up and teeth start to come in, then they fall out and come in again. Out go the old; in come the new. How many teeth have you?

6. How a Baby Grows

It’s a poem about what babies do, need, see, speak, hear, share and know.

7. Arthur’s Eyes

Arthur is having a hard time seeing.  He goes to the doctor and finds out he needs glasses.  At first his friends make fun of him so he doesn’t want to wear them.  Then he realizes he can’t see with out them.  One of his teachers has glasses so he doesn’t feel silly wearing them anymore.  His friends soon realize that Arthur can see and play better with his glasses and want him as a team mate when they play basketball.  One of his friends even decides to wear dress-up glasses.  Wearing glasses isn’t so bad after all.

8. Caillou- Tell me what

Caillou has body parts hidden.  Open the flap and see what body part he’s hiding.

9. Nose to Toes

What can we do with our body parts? Tuck our head in like a turtle,

10. My first book

It’s about first words.  Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Hair, Hug and so on.   A picture book with words.