Suggested Outdoor and Indoor Activities for Day Care – Block -7
Common Activities : Sunrise/Sunset
The sunrise/sunset exercise is another yoga pose that can be included in your students' daily movement routine. The students to stand upright with their arms at their sides and breathe deeply several times. Next, let them inhale and reach both arms above their heads as high as possible. Then, on the ensuing exhalation, bend forward at the waist and reach for their toes. Continue alternating between the two movements for five to 10 breath cycles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGw7WDVd29k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgq8nZqYNmE
Rhyme and Rhythm Time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUN5w2ysLnY (Driving in My Car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjYAuElcG2I (Wheels of the bus goes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyY0xIz6u8Y (Nani Teri Morani)
Splash pool :
To be conducted only if the weather is not cold.
Frozen feet
Have the kids sit along the edge of a splash pool filled to first tile level with water. Each player to be given an empty toy bucket or bowl. Now dump a big pile of ping pong balls or small plastic balls into the pool. At the starting signal, players must pick up as many balls as they can and put them into their own buckets...they must use only their feet. The player who collects the most balls... within a designated time period is the winner
Storytelling :
Narrate it using props like puppet screen, hand puppets,charts, picture book or make a model .The
story should continue for at least 3 to 4 days till the children gets hang of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749w­InEXgQ (Rapunzel)
Gym Room :
Let kids play on the trampoline, treadmill, tunnels, balancing beam.
AV Room : Take them to the / AV room for the movie or simply let them listen to some music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9RjdCKO9U4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Y5IZ0DLMQ
Gardening :
Grass Monster Cut a piece of paper large enough to wrap around a cup or other small container
Teacher to draw a smiley face or let children colour the face on the paper. Set the paper aside. Fill the cup with mud and sprinkle grass seeds / wheat / methi on top. Ask children to press the seeds gently into the soil and sprinkle water. Wrap the paper around the cup and secure with tape or glue. Let children place grass monster in a sunny window, water regularly, and watch his "hair" grow!
Free play: Create various stations for children to have a variety of activities. Book station
Story Books Let children browse through the books and select any book of their choice to go through the pictures given. Dramatic station
Give children Dolls / Hats / Caps / Handbags / Baskets / Umbrellas / Dresses / Sunglasses / Spectacles.
Let them do role play and use the above mentioned as props. Manipulative station
Big abacus, number rings, shape sorters.
Fine motor skill
Make the sand pit and give them grading cups and ask them to make castles with them or shapes with shape cutters.
Indoor and Outdoor Play for Block 7
Indoor Play
Body Part Musical Chairs:
Have everyone form a big circle around the chairs with the chairs facing outward. Remove one chair. Have your music ready. When the music starts, everyone must walk around the chairs (again it’s fun if
you make them jog). When the music stops, a teacher yells out a body part. Then everyone races to touch that body part to a chair, one person per chair only. If they touch a chair before the body part is called, they are out. The one person who doesn’t get a chair is also out. To speed it up, you can remove
more chairs.Start out simple – nose, hair, left elbow, etc. but towards the end make it complicated.
Ha, Ha, Ha
All players form a circle and one player begins by saying, "ha." The next player says, "ha, ha," followed by the next player who says, "ha, ha, ha," and so on around the circle with each player adding
another "ha". Each player must pronounce their "ha ha's" as seriously as they can, to avoid laughter as long as possible. Any player who laughs or makes a mistake drops out of the ha­ha circle. The player who keeps a straight face the longest, wins! Jungle Knots
Have the kids stand in a circle facing inward. To begin, everyone extends his or her right hand into the ring and takes a hold of someone else's hand. Then, they do the same with their left hands. The object of the game is to see if they can untangle the "knot" by stepping over, ducking under people, or turning
around. Whatever happens, they can't let go of hands! Simon Says. “Simon says stand up. Simon Says touch your nose. Sit down!” If a child follows the command without hearing, “Simon Says,” they have to sit down. Use some of the following: Wiggle your fingers, stand on one foot, hop one step, etc. Beware of Crocodiles
Cut out crocodile shapes from construction paper. Put them on the floor in a vertical line with letters, colours, shapes, or words at the end. Have your child tip toe, jump over, or gallop around the crocodiles to find a certain item at the end. Outdoor Activity Four Square
1. Draw a 6 by 10 foot square on a paved surface.
2. Divide the larger square into four smaller squares, number the squares 1 to 4, and have each child stand in a block.
3. The player in square 4 serves the ball by bouncing it in his square and tapping the ball into another square.
4. The player in that space must tap the ball (after one bounce) into another kid's area, and so on, until someone misses the ball, lets the ball bounce twice, or sends it out of the grid.
5. The player who misses the ball steps out and the remaining players rotate up through the numbered squares. If you are playing with more than four players, a new player enters the game at square 1.
Jump the creek
Need: Two long ropes
Divide the children into two teams, let them stand at the marked line.
On your signal, the two teams run and try to jump the ropes.
Keep on widening the ropes each time.
If the students land in the creek, they must dry their feet (lie on their back and shake their legs)
Then they get up and continue the jumps! Captain ball game
Have two teams lined up with the captain of each team standing one metre away from the first person on the team. To start the game, the captain throws the ball to the first player in the line who then throws the ball back and sits down. The captain throws the ball to the next player, who throws the ball back and sits down. The player continues in this way until all players have had a turn. The last player catches the ball and runs to the captain to replace him. The new captain now repeats the throwing of the ball to each player. The first team to complete have every player be the captain wins the game. Turtle ! Tiger ! Tree
To give little ones a full sense of their own self­control, give them practice changing speed. For instance, when you call out “turtle” they need to walk very, very slow. When you call out “tiger” they need to speed up and move very, very fast. When you call out “tree” they need to stretch their “limbs” like a tree and freeze in place! Once they’ve got the hang of it, change to a more random/unpredictable
rhythm. And be sure to change the sequence so they have to listen carefully. Bunny Buzz
Children sit in a circle.Children take turns counting off numbers in turn: 1,2,3,4....When the number seven is reached, that player must say, "I love Bunny", instead of seven. When the child fails to do so and says seven, the child is out of the game. The game continues until only one player is left to be declared the winner. Art and Craft
Paint the sticks
Collect a variety of sticks from outdoors. This is a great excercise for kids. Choose thick and thin ones, straight and curved ones and bumpy ones. This way you can introduce new vocabulary. Lay out the paints, sticks and paper beforehand. Now let the children paint on the own.
Santa paper crafts
Cutout a circle and triangle from pink colour chart paper for each child. Now cut long strips out of white paper for the beard, one small circle for the hat and a triangle strip for head band. Now ask each child to apply glue and attach the circle and triangle to one end.Then let them stick circle piece on top of the triangle and rectangle band in between the circle and triangle. The santa face is ready. Now ask each child to roll the white paper and stick it as santa's beard. Then draw eyes and nose with marker.
Browny Bear
Provide each child a paper plate, brown colour paint, piece of sponge and let them dab the paper plate leaving a small circle in between. Teacher to cut ears for the bear from brown chart paper. Eyes, nose from black chart paper. Once the paper plate dries, ask them to glue the ears, eyes, nose for the bear craft.
Knuckle Pumpkin Craft
Give each child a square chart paper piece, orange and green colour paint. Now ask each child to close their fist and dip their knuckles in orange colour paint and dab it on the sheet.Then dip their three fingers in green paint and stamp it on the knuckle print. Catepillar craft
Cut rainbow colour circles with chart paper for each child. Now ask each child to glue the circles edge and stick one below the other. Teacher to cut black wool into small pieces and children to stick it as caterpillar's leg
and two for the antenna.Draw eyes with marker and write the childs name on the caterpillar.
Hand Print Camel
Start by having the child dip hand in brown colour paint mixed with fevicol or glue and stamp it on a sheet. Once done, teacher to dab the thumb finger
with paint brush and make camel's neck. Now use marker and draw eyes
nose, feet and tail. Then give them sand and ask them to sprinkle it on the camel.
Painting rainbow with 'Q' tip
Line up 6 Q­tips in a row. Add a piece of tape to the tops of all the Q­tips in a line. Place rainbow colour paint in a plate.Now let each child dip the Q­ tips in the paint and let them
keep the Q­tip slating and drag it on a chart. Let them do it several times till they get the shape of rainbow.Apply glue at the corners and sprinkle some sand on it. Ladybug craft
Cut a circle shape out of red paper (it’s best to use construction paper as base). Cut strips of red paper. Take one strip of paper and glue it onto the base as shown on the picture. Glue on the next one at a 90° angle to the first one. Continue with next two, placing them between the first two.Then add more strips of paper to make the body of the ladybug . Cut the dots out of black paper. Also cut a half circle shape for the head and two antenna.
Cut two small oval shapes out of white paper and draw the eyes with black marker. Glue on the dots and head with the stick glue. Puffer Fish Craft Using a Fork
You will need White /Yellow Paint, a fork, paper, and a paintbrush. Start by having the child dip the bottom of their fork into the white paint and stamp it on the paper. Wipe off the fork and dip it in the yellow paint creating the spikes on top of the puffer fish. Then take a paintbrush and paint two fins. The last step is to cut out circles to make the eyes and mouth with white chart paper marked with marker.
Sankranti Kite craft
Material:2 A4 sized craft papers in contrasting colours, scissors , a pencil, a scale, 2 drinking straws,Glue,String – about a meter long, bits of coloured paper ribbons for the tail & decoration
To make :
Place the two sheets aligned on top of each other. Fold in half along the long edge [ as shown in pic 1 see L­R, T­B] Fold one edge at one corner as shown in pic 2. Open
Cut along the folded edge and then draw a line a line as shown in pic 3. Cut along this edge to form an elongated diamond shape. Use the cut triangles for decoration as shown in pic 4
Turn upside down and Cut the straws and paste the straws to length. – first horizontally & then vertically. String a cotton thread through the vertical straw and tie it to form a triangle.
Attach a paper ribbons for the tail and any other design that you would like.
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