After our bean bag song, we dove into our first and longest
book, Scare a Bear by Kathy-jo Wargin. This book rhymes beautifully
and is funny enough to keep the kids engaged.
We packed up our cars and headed for our campsite and played
a matching car and luggage game on the flannelboard. I handed out different
colored suitcases and they each had to match their suitcase to the same colored
car. They liked being able to interact with the flannelboard.
Our next book, Into the Outdoors by Susan Gal is
a good book with interesting illustrations that explains what it means to go
camping. It's also great practice for learning your directional words, such as
top/bottom, over/under etc.
For our next activity, we made animal noises. Everyone put
up their animal on the flannelboard and we practiced making their noises. We
had some pretty silly animals up there that we wouldn't see while camping and
we pointed those out.
Do Princesses Make Happy Campers? by Carmela
LaVigna Coyle is another rhyming camping book that was enjoyed by everyone.
Once we read that book, we sang and did movements to "A
Camping We Will Go," a song I found on Youtube. The group was a little shy
to sing and move along, but we all gave it a good try.
Our last book was Maisy Goes Camping by Lucy Cousins. I
always seem to pick this book for camping. It's just a great, short read that
explains the whole camping experience and has a humor element in it with all
the animals not being able to fit inside one tent.
For our craft, we made campfires using orange and yellow
paint, our handprints, and brown construction paper for logs and a stick. We even
had marshmallows for our craft!
Other Books:
The Great Indoors Julie Falatko
Into the Outdoors Susan Gal
Do Princesses Make Happy Campers? Carmela LaVigna Coyle
Maisy Goes Camping Lucy Cousins
Scare a Bear Kathy-jo Wargin
Camp Rex Molly Idle
First Star: A Bear and Mole Story Will Hillenbrand
Other Activities:
Who Sank the Boat Animal Flannel
Five Frogs
Five Owls
Five Birds
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