Get a portable radio and play a version of musical chairs with a ball. The kids sit or stand in a circle and pass the ball from one person to another. When the music stops, the person holding the ball goes to the middle until the next person gets “out” and replaces the person in the middle; therefore only one person is in the middle of the circle at a time. This could also be played sitting down indoors on rainy days.

Make paper airplanes and see who’s can fly the fartherest.

Freeze dance. As long as the music is playing they dance. When it stops they freeze like a statue.

Sidewalk chalk.

Hopscotch.

I hope these help.

Now you can do lots of pretend activities. Those never get old with that age group. It depends on how many you have

You can read a chapter or few of a chapter book with lots of character (if this is difficult to find write one of your own ahead of time)… then everyone chose or is assigned a character… they have to act out how the book would end.

Or better yet make paper bag puppets and write an alternative ending to the story. Act out the story and the ending with the puppet. (You can present it to the younger group at your school). You guys can also try to act out alternative stories of there favorite movies.

If you have a sandbox and a figurinesor cars (1 for each person) have them gather twigs and stuff and each person build on house out of a cave in the sand and twigs/leaves. Then there is a village assign a doctor, mayor… and act out how a village interacts… maybe current events like fires and flood near by.

You can always go with gym games. Dodge ball, red-light-green light… the statue game: you say the poem little statue little state tomorrows market… I need a XXXX (fill in a name of animal or profession or something interactive) then the kid pose as the thing you say then you tap each person to make the act out what that thing does (some times they try to get goofy and get some laughs) then tap them again to turn them off. Chose the best actor to be the next it to say the poem.

Inside- Do something for Halloween crafts, games, snacks….ect. You can do that for all holidays. When the snow starts comming you can get a bunch of sugar cubes and vanilla frosting and they could make igloos out of that. You could read to them. Help them with their homework if they have any. Sing songs.

Just a few ideas. Hope you can use them. Good luck!!

Tag

Freeze Tag

Read books to them and then do activities related to the books–like Charlotte’s Web–using string and paper make a spider web.

Handprints–painting

Do messy play activitie–there’s a good book by Lisa Murphy who writes a good messy play book.

You can burry treasures in sand

Have a scavenger hunt

get a book of games from the library. Do you read to them? Do homework?

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