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This is Part 4 in my series of the ABCs of Thrifty Teaching Tools. Click here for A to E, F to J, K to O and U to Z.
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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Pom poms, pizza, pillows, puppets, puzzles, popcorn, porcupine, paint, playdough, paper towel rolls, pasta, pets, peanuts, pretzels, pictures, picture books, pipe cleaners, pinecones, pineapples, paper, popsicles, pop, packing peanuts, pogo sticks, pony, paper plate crafts, paint with straws, patterns, picnic, pig, penguin, princess, pumpkins, polar bear, Pin the Nose on...
I grew up PLAYING OUTSIDE often. What did I play?
- Jacks - I was the Queen of Jacks – spent many hours on the front porch playing with old rusty jacks and the same golf ball
- Jump rope
- Skates - hand-me-down metal skates with a key to adjust size – not exactly speedy
- Bicycles - old bikes my father kept repairing
- Dolls were carted around in wagons and buggies
- Kick the can
- Basketball, softball, catch
- Hola Hoop
- Pogo Stick
- Marble games in the dirt
- Badminton
- Croquet - We didn’t have a set but our best friends did
- Hide and seek
- Hopscotch with a rock
- Collections - I loved collecting locust shells in the daytime and fireflies at night. (To read the entire post, click on Back to the Basics: Play Outside.)
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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Q-tips, quilts, quiet space, quarters, quick, Quaker Oats.
- Quilt: Make a tissue paper quilt using different colors in squares
- Quiet Space: Children will greatly benefit from a quiet reading space and it will give you some down time. A sheet or blanket over chairs works great.
- Q-Tips: Children enjoy using a Q-tip, white paint and black paper for a stark contrast. If they are not sure what to paint, you could suggest a snowman at night with a moon and stars.
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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Read, rice, robots, races, rainbows, rope, recycle, re-use, restore, replinsh, ribbons, rocks, rubbings, rest, relax, respect, responsibility, rhyme, roads, rockets, rain.
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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Seeds, straws, sticks, spray bottles, sew, slide, swing, snake, snow, snowflakes, sensory bins, sun, shadows, shaving cream, sheets, salt, soups, share, service, science, Scavenger hunt, stamps, spatula, special, snickers, soap, sort, salt, sand, sponges, sticks, seashells, stars, seahorse, slime, shake, shapes, snails, sea, see, seagulls, sidewalk, stickers, spiders, socks, spinner games.
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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Transporation, trains, trucks, tigers, tubes, tin cans, tin foil, tissue paper, toilet paper rolls, touch, taste, time, time out, tick-tock, tea party, tarantula, teams, t-shirt, ten, Tuesday, treasure hunt, tree, turkey, turtles, Twister game, think, thank you, things that go, thrift stores.
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I love your list of old fashioned outdoor games! It's new to kids today and so great to keep them happily at play outside!
ReplyDeleteThat you so much for visiting. We played outside most of the time when we weren't in school - all inexpensive ways to play, explore, learn.
ReplyDeleteHi There! Great job on this article, it really help parents on how to train their children reading at very young age. Also, preschool teachers will not be having a hard time on teaching students on how to read.
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