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OUTDOOR NUMBER TAG
Motor Skills
Materials
Construction paper
Markers
Tape or pushpins
Activity
Number sheets of construction paper with numbers from 1 to 10. (You may wish to have more than one of
each number.) Use tape or pushpins to hang the numbered papers on trees, flag poles, outside doors,
picnic tables, benches, and so on. Begin singing one of the verses of the following song. Have the children
move as directed to the number named in the verse. Then continue with a different number. Repeat until
the children have touched all the numbers.
Sung to: “Skip to My Lou”
Everybody run to a number 1.
Everybody run to a number 1.
Everybody run to a number 1.
Run to a number 1.
Everybody shoo to a number 2.
Everybody shoo to a number 2.
Everybody shoo to a number 2.
Shoo to a number 2.
Additional Verses: Everybody flee to a number 3; Everybody soar to a number 4; Everybody jive to a
number 5; Everybody kicks to a number 6; Everybody revvin’ to a number 7; Everybody skate to a
number 8; Everybody shine to a number 9; Everybody bend to a number 10.
Gayle Bittinger
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BUBBLE COUNT
Materials
Bubble solution
Bubble wand
Activity
Have the children sit in front of you. Using a jar of bubbles and a bubble wand, slowly blow some bubbles.
As the bubbles float off the wand, sing the following song. At the end of the song, help the children count
the bubbles. What is the greatest number of bubbles you can blow with one breath? What is the fewest
number of bubbles? If you wish, let the children take turns blowing bubbles while everyone else counts
them.
Sung to: “Frere Jacques”
Blowing bubbles,
Blowing bubbles,
In the air,
In the air.
Count before they pop.
Count them, do not stop.
Counting bubbles
In the air.
Gayle Bittinger
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