Grab the Holiday Present was a game played by morning prekindergarten students today. Students were divided into two teams and given a card with a holiday picture. A member of the opposite team had the same card. When that card was called, the two players from each side ran to the middle to try and pick up a holiday present. Whoever grabbed the present ran back to the home base, with the other team's player in pursuit.
These students show their cards that match someone on the opposing team.
This student runs to the middle to pick up the holiday present.
This person picked up the present and ran towards his home base. The other person tried to tag him.
This student made it safely back to her home with the holiday present.
Kindergarten students did a fun dance to the song "Jingle Bells." They worked with a partner and used red and white plastic plates that they hit together. This song required some cooperation between classmates. The dance ended with a big "MERRY CHRISTMAS."
Members of this class work with a partner to hit plastic
plates together in a pattern to the "Jingle Bells" song.
These girls perform a left hand star.
The class shouts "Merry Christmas" at the end of their dance.
One day while out shopping, I found some very small holiday bows. I bought them with the idea that I would make up a game that used them. I called it Holiday Presents and Bows. I spread out lots of cones on the gym floor and hid four big bows under four cones. Students pretended to be presents with no bows. They moved to holiday music around the floor in a way that I designated (jog, walk, skip, march, gallop, etc.). When the music stopped, each child stood by a cone and lifted it up to see if a bow was underneath. If there was a bow, that student received one of the tiny bows to put somewhere on his/her face. The children laughed every time they received a bow. Some children had several bows on the face and looked so cute.
Students move around the room using various locomotor movements.
When the music paused, this student went to a cone and found a big holiday bow underneath.
Finding a big bow under the cone meant a tiny bow on the face.
This student is wrapped with beautiful bows.
Each of the children in this class found a bow at some point during the game.
