Toys & Games unit for Summer camp

[pez]

Hey! So i took a toy theme for summer camp, and here are some of the materials.
This is a 5 lesson, elementary level camp.  You can see in the Objectives that they are just leveled up and down a little depending on the age level of the kids. I mention teaching A vs An, but I had to nix that for lack of toys that start with A,E,I,O, and U.

I will have to add more materials as I finish them, I don't have the jeopardy game or the pass the ball game done yet, but I should have them this week.

*Note: For the board game activity, I am using the "Toy Vocabulary" file. I am printing off little pictures of the vocab words on colored paper, and cutting them into squares. The students just glue them on their game board in the order they want and in the design they want.  I am also giving older students old egg cartons and TP rolls cut in half, so they can make a 3-D game board.

*For the paper airplane lesson, at  http://www.funpaperairplanes.com/ there are videos and printouts templates.

Enjoy!

[pez]

This is the play-doh recipe:
1 cup salt
1 cup flour
1 table spoon vegetable oil
food coloring (ask the science teacher...)
Water (no quantity given, but its just enough to moisten it.. i'd say a few table spoons.)

If its too sticky, add more flour.

This dries nicely, and keeps it shape, it doesn't crack while drying.

[pinklemonade]

Thanks for the post, I have also made a couple of filler activities to fit with this theme, a wordsearch and a guessing game

[pez]

Here is toy jeopardy...

Sorry for all the versions, but figured I'd post them all:
one is just kind of mixed easy and hard (I made that first, its called "toy jeopardy")
Then, I got nervous it was too hard for the babies- grade 1 + 2, so I made an easy version.
Then, I made an intermediate version, and figured, why not! and made an advanced version too for my advanced camp.

Also attached are the two paper airplane videos and the PDF templates.

[pez]

Here is the pass the ball game (and I think that's the last of materials that I will need to make.)

The way I do it, is I give each group of students a ball, and when the music plays they pass it.  When the music stops, the student with the ball has to say the phrase and then everyone has to sit down and be silent.

The teams that do it first get points.  Usually, its pretty close so I just make sure that all teams win sometimes. :)


OR, sometimes I count to three when the music stops and everyone asks a target question (Like, "What's this?") and then the kids with the ball have to answer, if they get it right, they stay in the game, if they get it wrong they have to sit down. (It's student enforced, and usually no one has to sit down...)


The target text is not on the game, so that I can change it by ability (I teach 1st-6th graders all in one day.)

So, for the babies they'll just say "It's a..."
upper students have to use "It's a... or They are..." depending on if its plural or not.

[Amy Rodulfo]

Thanks for your hard work.