Tot School–Letter I for Ice Cream

Tot School (23rd July – 31st July 2013) @ Debo 23 months
Alphabet:   I
Object:      Ice Cream
Theme:      Cold Weather
Colour:      White

 

Ice cream bin with colourful pom pom at the bottom

Letter Box for Letter  I

We done some flash cards of animals which live in cold weather.

Worksheets

Right Brain Exercise

Sequence cards for ice cream making

Crafts

Letter I for Iguana, small letter i for inchworm (Idea from http://totallytots.blogspot.com/)

File Folder Game

Ice cream colours matching game

   

Fine Motor

   

Scooping out colourful pom poms by using a small spoon. We play pretend play with the ice cream and pom poms where Debo pretending as an ice cream seller.

Debo playing with the alphabets cards which I made it for “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” theme.

BOOKS

Sensory Bin - Cold Weather (Letter I Week)

 

The first thing comes to my mind when talking about cold weather is “ICE”. Malaysia do not have winter, so definitely we won’t able to see snow in our own country. To let Debo feel the cold weather is to make her an “Ice World”. Alright, I only manage to make a SMALL ice world for her.

We do not have polar bear nor penguin, so I tried to put all the sea animals which lives in cold weather into the ice bin. I had make a lot of ices in different shapes and add in blue food colouring to make it look like sea.

Debo add in her whale and penguin bath toy into the bin.

Debo had lots of fun playing with the animals toys and we played until all the ices melted.

Treasure Basket - White Colour

Since we were having cold weather for our weekly theme, I had prepared a white colour treasure basket for Debo as white colour is the colour that we will normally link with “COLD”.

Items we had in the treasure basket :

- Styrofoam

- Cotton pad

- Spoon

- Sealing clip

- Instant noodles cup

DIY – Ice Cream Matching Colours

 

A simple and easy made game for kids, matching the ice cream felts with the colourful sticks.

What we need ?

A simple but fun for kids while learning colours.

Items needed:

1. Different colours of felts

2. Different colours of ice cream sticks or craft sticks (colours should be  able to match with the felts you have)

3. Needle and threads

How to make ?

Firstly, cut the felts into ice cream shape as above. Have two same colours of felts for one ice cream.

Sew the same colour felts together.

…. and now is all DONE !

And now is ready for play ..

File Folder Game – Ice Cream Colour Matching (Letter I Week)

 

A lovely and fun playing file folder game where kids learn colours by matching the ice cream scoops and ice lollies with the correct cone or sticks, in terms of colours matching and words recognition. This lovely template was download from Mr Printable website.

The little pocket on the front cover can be used to store the scoops and lollies. 

 

To make it more solid and durable, I use foam paper as ice cream scoops and lollies instead from the printout. The colours look brighter with foam papers too.

I love this file folder game and so as Debo. It looks like an ice cream selling store, attractive and fun playing while kids can learn and keep them busy… at least for some moment.