We introduced the them with camping songs, named camping gear, “what do you do at camping”? campfire safety, fishing, swimming and making S’mores.
Art
Monday painted with marshmallows to make campfire
Tuesday- Sponge painted on paper and glued logs and marshmallows
Wednesday- Star cookie cutter stamping on blue paper
Thursday- Tent with fireflies- glued tent and stamped yellow fireflies
Friday-Lanterns- fill with tissue paper and paint outside of cup, add handle
Motor Development
Building with pretzels and mini marshmallows to create their own piece, linking logs for staking/building and creating, hook the fish using magnet wands, ring toss counting rings for stacking to the top, animal carpet square hop scotch to practice hopping with one foot and 2 feet in each square.
Math
We used cotton balls and brown square pieces of paper to make a pattern9 cotton ball/paper, cotton ball/paper, the children used bamboo tongs, ice cream cups and mini marshmallows to practice squeezing tongs with thumb/index and middle fingers to strengthen grip, color matching coins for older toddlers and jumbo plastic coins for younger toddlers to practice matching colors and counting coins with teacher help,
Sensory Table
Sand, mini marshmallows, buckets, camping canteen and shovels
Activities
Tent in block area with pretend camp fire and camping foods
Group discussion: “what do we take camping, what do we do when we camp, what do we eat”?
Songs/books about camping “A camping we will go”
Practicing Father’s Day song
Fruit/vegetable sorting cans
Campfire safety-don’t touch or go near campfire
Make S’mores on Friday