We are confident that these ideas will help you create a wonderful, memory filled night for the children, parents and you.
- Provide a variety of noodles and beans (elbow, macaroni, spirals, lima beans, black beans). If you are doing this during the fall, you can also add in clean pumpkin seeds. Lay out pieces of construction paper with the child’s name largely printed with marker on them. To make this a parent/child activity, add pieces of paper with the words, mom or dad. With glue, the children and parents can glue the materials over the top of their printed name. It will look like they traced their name with the art material.
- Set up a literacy table where the parents and children can read books together. You could also see if one of the parents or another teacher could do story time with the parents and children. The children will love sitting on their parents laps listening to the story book.
- Set up a rhyming station. Write out each word from a nursery rhyme onto a different piece of paper. Have the children, with the help of their parents, find all the words that rhyme together. Have the words that rhyme on the same color of paper. This way it will help the children visualize each word as they hear it.
- Get copy of Little Miss Muffet. Make spiders for Little Miss Muffet. Use paper plates and hole punch 4 holes on each side. The children can color or paint the paper plate black. Cut up some black streamers and with the help of their parents they can tie the streamers into each hole to make the legs. Add Google eyes or they can draw eyes onto the spider. Have the parents read the nursery rhyme and the children can move the spider around as they hear the rhyme.
- Develop a card matching game. Pick your favorite nursery rhyme and make a large poster board with the rhyme on it. Use a picture (freehand, magazine, etc) to replace a word on each line. Make a deck of cards with the same pictures and have the children “find” the same picture on the poster. If you want to include the older grades, they can make the poster and cards.
- An event like this is a great way to get some of the older children involved with serving. They can help prepare the crafts, work a station, be greeters and work the sign in table, etc.
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