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Here are a few fun ideas to go with your Groundhog Day lessons for your little ones. I am sorry I didn't get these out in time, but they will be here to come back to next year or go ahead and teach them in the coming weeks. Your preschooler doesn't know that it's already past and these activities will engage them and help them to create a memory to draw from when the holiday rolls around again next winter.
Books To Enjoy:
Ten Grouchy Groundhogs by Kathryn Heling
Go To Sleep Groundhog! by Judy Cox
Double Trouble Groundhog Day by Bethany Roberts
Songs:
Shadow Time
(to the tune of "The Itsy-bitsy Spider")
The furry little groundhog
Goes in his hole to sleep,
Through the cold winter's
Snow and ice so deep,
In February
He stretches to and fro,
Does the furry little groundhog
Get scared by his shadow?
Goes in his hole to sleep,
Through the cold winter's
Snow and ice so deep,
In February
He stretches to and fro,
Does the furry little groundhog
Get scared by his shadow?
Little Groundhog
(to the tune of "Little White Duck")
There's a little groundhog
Who lives in the ground,
A little groundhog
Who likes to look around.
She comes outside on Groundhog's Day
If she sees her shadow, then she runs away.
There's a little groundhog,
Who loves to stay and play
When spring's on its way.
Who lives in the ground,
A little groundhog
Who likes to look around.
She comes outside on Groundhog's Day
If she sees her shadow, then she runs away.
There's a little groundhog,
Who loves to stay and play
When spring's on its way.
Nine Little Groundhogs
(to the tune of "Ten Little Indians")
One little, two little,
Three little groundhogs, Four little, five little, Six little groundhogs, Seven little, eight little, Nine little groundhogs, Sleeping down under the ground. |
Activities:
These all come from www.dltk-kids.com, which is an excellent site for moms of young children. You will find easy activities of all sorts here for most anything.
Groundhog Day paint dauber fun!
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/happy_groundhog-dauber.htm
If you want to purchase paint daubers, go to Party City or a place where you can buy bingo markers. That's all these are! They are fabulous for toddlers and preschoolers who love to "dot, dot, dot" the paint and for parents, who love that the paint is controlled and doesn't spill!
Five Little Groundhogs felt board or stick puppet pieces - let the children color or print on brown construction paper. If you want to mount these on large popsicle sticks, use a glue stick to put them on tagboard first then cut out so that they are sturdier. Tape on the popsicle sticks.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/m-fivelittlegroundhogs.htm
Pop Up Groundhog!
This is a particularly popular one with the younger children. Again, let the little ones color or print on construction paper and just let your child assemble one or two. If you only have regular size popsicle sticks, use an unsharpened pencil.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mgroundhogpop.html
Find Your Shadow
If the weather is cooperating, take your child outside on a sunny day and find your shadows. Wave to it, dance, let your child stand still and use a piece of chalk to trace his shadow on the sidewalk. Then your child can trace yours or decorate with a face.
These all come from www.dltk-kids.com, which is an excellent site for moms of young children. You will find easy activities of all sorts here for most anything.
Groundhog Day paint dauber fun!
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/happy_groundhog-dauber.htm
If you want to purchase paint daubers, go to Party City or a place where you can buy bingo markers. That's all these are! They are fabulous for toddlers and preschoolers who love to "dot, dot, dot" the paint and for parents, who love that the paint is controlled and doesn't spill!
Five Little Groundhogs felt board or stick puppet pieces - let the children color or print on brown construction paper. If you want to mount these on large popsicle sticks, use a glue stick to put them on tagboard first then cut out so that they are sturdier. Tape on the popsicle sticks.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/m-fivelittlegroundhogs.htm
Pop Up Groundhog!
This is a particularly popular one with the younger children. Again, let the little ones color or print on construction paper and just let your child assemble one or two. If you only have regular size popsicle sticks, use an unsharpened pencil.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mgroundhogpop.html
Find Your Shadow
If the weather is cooperating, take your child outside on a sunny day and find your shadows. Wave to it, dance, let your child stand still and use a piece of chalk to trace his shadow on the sidewalk. Then your child can trace yours or decorate with a face.
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