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Baa
Baa Black sheep added
8-29-99 Original Author Unknown
Need: black paint, soap, water, straw, paper,
sheep outline
Directions:
Black Bubble painting on sheep outline
Baa Baa Black sheep
added 8-29-99
Original Author Unknown
Need: paper, pencil, sheep outline
Directions:
Curl white paper strips around pencils and glue onto sheep outline
Hickory Dickory Dock
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Gray paper,
hole punch, stuffing, string, wiggle eyes, pink pompom
Directions: Made laced mice. First you
cut out a gray colored construction paper heart shape with the paper
folded in half. Use a hole punch to make holes all along the outer edge
(not the folded edge), and use a string to start at the pointed end of the
heart to lace. Continue lacing until about 3/4 done and stuff with fluff.
Finish lacing until you get to the incurve on the heart and tie off,
leaving a tail when cutting the string off. Add wiggle eyes and a
pink pompom to the pointed end of the heart and you have the mouse that
ran up the clock!!
Humpty Dumpty Book
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Poster board, crayons or markers
Directions:
After saying the rhyme several times we make a big book. Before hand I
write one line of the poem on the top of half a piece of poster board. I
ask the children what needs to be in the picture. I use simple drawings.
After putting the pages together with rings the book is then left out for
them to read. They can also make a smaller version at center time if they
care to. This can be done with different rhymes.
Peter Peter Pumpkin
Eater added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: orange construction paper, another
sheet of paper any color, pictures of men and women, glue and scissors
Directions: Cut out a large pumpkin
shape that will fit on a 8x11 piece of construction
paper. Cut a window shape in it. Have the children find
pictures in a magazine or catalog of a man and a women to represent Peter
and his wife. Glue the lady inside the pumpkin looking out the window and
glue the pumpkin on the other sheet of construction paper then glue Peter
on the side of the pumpkin. I then add the words of the nursery rhyme on
the page also. You can do several other pages of different nursery
rhymes and make a book for the children. They like it when they can
take it home to read it to Mom and or Dad
Humpty Dumpty
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Red paper, white paper, scissors, glue,
and crayons or markers
Directions:
Trace an oval and get the kids to cut it out. On a bottom of a piece
of construction paper, get the children to tear some red construction
paper to look like bricks and glue it on the bottom. Get the kids to
draw facial features on the oval. Glue the oval on top of the brick
wall. For legs, I used strips of construction paper folded accordion
style.
Nursery Rhyme Puppets added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: nursery rhyme coloring books, crayons,
glue, popsicle sticks, contact paper
Directions: Take Nursery coloring book pages
and allow them to color them. Cut around the characters. Use contact paper
or laminator when they are finish. Staple or hot glue them to a popsicle
stick and now you have a puppet. Allow the children to act out the
rhymes with their new puppets.
Three Little Kitten
Mitten Collage
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Wall paper scraps or books, glue, large
paper.
Directions: Cut mittens out of the wallpaper
scraps / samples. Let the children glue mittens all over the paper to make
a collage.
Old King Cole Crowns
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Heavy paper, collage materials,
scissors, glue
Directions: Cut crown shapes out of heavy
paper. Have a wide variety of materials available for decoration. (
buttons, lace, paper, tissue paper, macaroni) Let the children glue the
collage material to the crown. When it dries staple to fit the child's
head.
Mice
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper, paper plates, number stickers,
pipe cleaners, yarn, crayons.
Directions: Fold paper in half and draw half
a heart shape starting at the fold. Have the children cut out the heart
shape. Re fold the heart to be a mouse shape. Give them yarn to glue on as
a tail and a circle to glue on as an eye. Then make clocks from paper
plates. Let the children color the rim of the plate. Give them numbers to
stick on. Showing them a real clock face so that they can attempt to place
the numbers correctly. Have a pipe cleaner ready to stick through the
center for the hands of the clock. Recite the Hickory Dickory Dock
Rhyme.
Twinkle Stars
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Star stamp, cookie cutter, or sponge,
paint, glitter, black paper
Directions:
Use stamps, cookie cutters and sponges to make star prints. Use yellow
paint with sparkles added to make prints on black paper.
Twinkle Stars
2
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Star shape, glue, sparkles, hole
punchers, yarn Directions:
Use a pre-cut star shape or have the children cut it out and glue
on sparkles and glitter to make it twinkle. punch a hole in one
point to wear it as a necklace.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Finger paint paper, black paint,
scissors. Directions:
Cut out a sheep shape onto finger paint paper. Use black paint and
let the children finger paint the wool onto their sheep.
Mary's Lamb
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper, cotton, glue, lamb shape,
Directions: Glue cotton balls onto a lamb
shape.
Little Muffet's Spider
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: marble, box, white paper, black paint Directions:
Marble painting spider webs. Place a piece of white paper in a box and
drop marbles into some black paint in the corner of the box. Have the
children move the box around so that the marble rolls over the paper
creating a web effect.
Muffet's print spider
added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Stamp pad, paper, marker Directions:
Use stamp pads to make spiders. Use the children's finger prints for the
bodies and then use the marker to add legs onto the bodies.
Jack Be Nimble added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper tube, small paper plate, paint,
paper
Directions: Use a paper tube to make a
candle. Glue it onto a small paper plate. Have the children paint and
decorate their candle. Ad a paper flame. Then act out the nursery rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty Paper
Plate added 9-3-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: paper plates, markers, black
construction paper, fasteners
Directions: Have each child cut out
strips of black construction paper with the legs
and arms folded like accordion style. Unfold. Children can then decorate
their paper plates as humpty dumpty. Use fasteners to put on legs and
arms.
My Mother Goose Book added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: paper, copy of nursery rhyme words,
crayons
Directions:
Everyday that you introduce a new rhyme, give a copy of the rhyme to each
child. The verse should be dittoed on the top half of a piece of paper and
the children may illustrate the rhyme on the bottom half. At the end of
your unit, the children will have a complete Nursery Rhyme book, filled
with all the rhymes that were done at school.
Hey Diddle Diddle added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper plate, plastic spoon, crayons or
markers, paper, pipe cleaner
Directions: The Dish That Ran Away With The
Spoon. Decorate a face on a paper plate with crayons, markers, or pasting
on cut-out shapes. Add paper arms and legs. Using a plastic spoon... draw
a face on it with permanent markers and add pipe cleaners for arms and
legs.
Humpty On the Wall added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper, glue, crayons and markers
Directions:
Give kids red construction paper rectangles to glue onto bottom of their
paper. Put Humpty Dumpty shape on top of oval and glue in
place, add face using wiggle eyes. Have them draw stick arms
if they can. Decorate by gluing crushed egg on.
Muffet's Dancing Spider added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: paper, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, glue
or tape, yarn
Directions:
Take one black circle and the same size orange circle, One smaller black
circle, 4 pipe cleaners (all the same or two colors, ie, two black and two
orange), two googly eyes. Glue the small black circle to top of orange
circle. Glue eyes to small black circle. Glue or tape pipe cleaner to
orange circle spacing evenly ( I alternated colors). Glue or staple black
circle on top of the pipe cleaners. Bend cleaners at knee and up on ends.
Attach a piece of yarn to black circle in two different spots. ( this
makes the spiders easier to operate.)
When The Pie Was Opened added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Sing a Song of Sixpence - Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked In A Pie
Need: Large paper, bird shaped sponge, black
paint
Directions: Cut out bird shapes from sponges.
Cut large sheets of paper into pie shapes and let the children dip their
sponges into a pan of black tempera paint and print blackbirds all over
their *pie*.
There Was A Crooked Man added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: paper, scissors, glue
Directions: Crooked Cutting Practice scissors
skills by providing lots of scrap paper
and scissors (the decorative zigzags are great!) . Consider making crooked
collages out of the crooked cuttings.
Old Lady Who Lived in a
Shoe added
9-4-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: old kid's shoes (Keds are the best but
any will work), Spray paint (optional), Puff paint, sequins, glitter,
paper
Directions: The teacher can spray all the
shoes one color beforehand. Read the nursery rhyme. Let children
decorate their shoes. If they like, they can make little people to
put in them. You can also print the rhyme on a footprint and put it
in the shoe. Let dry.
Painting Pies added
5-21-02 Original Author Unknown
Need: paper plates, Aluminum pie tin,
1c. white flour, 1c. wheat flour, 1/4t. ground
cloves, 1/4t. nutmeg or ginger, 2t. cinnamon, 2c. water
Directions: Read aloud "Simple Simon" Then make pretend pies with the
children.
First invert two stacked paper plates over two others so that all four
plates are rim to rim. Staple all around.
Pie Paint Recipe
1c. white flour
1c. wheat flour
1/4t. ground cloves
1/4t. nutmeg or ginger
2t. cinnamon
2c. water
Mix well
This makes sweet smelling pie paint for 10-12pies. Have each child
paint a crust on the top half of their pie. Dry 24 hours. When dry
place each pie in a aluminum pie pan.
Put Humpty Together
Again added
7-15-03 Submitted by: Meighan
Baker
Need: Paper, glue, crayons or markers
Directions: Cut out an oval egg shape and
then cut the oval into 2 or 3 jagged edged pieces. Give a child the
pieces and some glue and tell him or her to put Humpty back together
again. Once the child puts his or her Humpty Dumpty together, they
can draw a face on him and glue on paper arms and legs!
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