The Circus

COTTON CANDY

Cotton Candy Craft

How to make: Cotton Candy / FairyFloss

CIRCUS

How to make: Circus Tent

CIRCUS TRAIN

How to make: Circus Train

FERRIS WHEEL

CLOWNS

How to make: Clown Costume

ELEPHANTS

Blow horn Elephant craft

This craft came from this amazing Pinterest pin, originally from Tippytoe Crafts!

WALKING THE TIGHTROPE

BOOKS

Little Monkey Says Good Night (Ann Whitford Paul)
What To Do If An Elephant Stands On Your Foot (Michelle Robinson)
If I Ran The Circus (Dr. Seuss)

SONGS

Walking Through The Circus

Sing to the tune “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.”

I am walking through the circus (walk in place)

Happy as can be (smile real big)

I am walking through the circus (walk in place)

Just to see, what I can see (make binoculars with hands)

I can see the clown laughing (ha, ha, ha)

I can see the elephant, too (make trunk motion)

I can see the lion sleeping (yawn)

Look out (make binoculars with hands)… because he sees you too

RHYME PLAY

Five Little Balloons

Five little balloons bobbin in a store -

One went POP and then there were four.

Four little balloons - each one was free;

One went POP and then there were three.

Three little balloons so shiny and new -

One went POP and then were two.

Two little balloons - balloons are fun!

One went POP and then were one.

One little balloon got caught in the door.

It went POP and there were no more!

VIDEOS

DANCE

Body Boogie

LYRICS:
Let’s body boogie, you and me. We’ll shake and boogie easily. Shake your head from the top. Count to three and then we’ll stop. 1, 2, 3, stop (4X) Now, shake it to the right and shake it to the left. Turn one time and step, step, step, GO!

Let’s body boogie, you and me. We’ll shake and boogie easily. Shake your shouldersfrom the top. Count to three and then we’ll stop. 1, 2, 3, stop (4X) Now, shake it to the right and shake it to the left. Turn one time and step, step, step, GO!

Let’s body boogie, you and me. We’ll shake and boogie easily. Shake your hands from the top. Count to three and then we’ll stop. 1, 2, 3, stop (4X) Now, shake it to the right and shake it to the left. Turn one time and step, step, step, GO!

Let’s body boogie, you and me. We’ll shake and boogie easily. Shake your hips from the top. Count to three and then we’ll stop. 1, 2, 3, stop (4X) Now, shake it to the right and shake it to the left. Turn one time and step, step, step, GO!

Let’s body boogie, you and me. We’ll shake and boogie easily. Shake your body from the top. Count to three and then we’ll stop. 1, 2, 3, stop (4X) Now, shake it to the right and shake it to the left. Turn one time and step, step, step, GO!

Ocean Creatures

OCTOPUS

CRABS

JELLY FISH

A Camping We Will Go!

 Hand Print Camp Fire

 The Great Outdoors

 An Important Camping Accessory

 Fire Flies

OTHER CRAFTS
Lanterns
You need two clear plastic cups approx. 6ozs. We painted one with green and brown tempera paint to look camouflage with a sponge. When it dries take orange, yellow and red tissue paper and put inside to represent flames. Lastly take the clear cup and put upside down on the painted cup. Hole punch both cups on each side and run a pipe cleaner thru each set of holes, twist and meet at the top to make a handle. There you have it a lantern!!

Backpack: 

Take a grocery sack and let the children color it anyway they want. Trim about two inches off the top of the grocery sack. Attach the trim pieces to the back of the bag as straps.

GAMES
Owl Search
Choose one child to be the owl.  Have the other children hide their eyes.  Then the owls finds a place to hide and starts softly "hooting".  Have the rest of the children open their eyes and try to find the owl.

Letter Fishing
Make a fishing game by cutting out paper fish. Mark them with different letters.  Turn the fish over so that the letters are not seen.  Lay out the fish on the floor and let the children take turns fishing for a certain letter.


SONGS
Camping song
A Camping We Will Go 
A Camping We Will Go 
Hi Ho the Derry-O 
A Camping We Will Go

Continue with:
*We will pitch the tent right here

*We will go into the tent

*We are having so much fun "Hooray!"




Going Camping
tune: (Mary had a little lamb)
I am going camping, camping, camping
I am going camping,
With my family

Cooking Marshmallows
tune (Hokey Pokey)
You put the marshmallow in,
you take the marshmallow out.
You put the marshmallow in
and you turn it all about.

You put it by the fire
until it's nice and brown.
That's when you gobble it up
and swallow it down.

VIDEOS

London Bridge

I also incorporated shapes into this fun nursery rhyme craft.

Happy 4th of July

4th of July hats*

Liberty Bell 

Liberty Bell Bracelet

*4th of July Hat

What you'll need:

• Pencil
• Yardstick
• Scissors
• 1 18- by 24-inch sheet of white poster board
• Red, white, and blue curling gift-wrap ribbon, ¾ inch wide
• Wide patriotic ribbon
• Masking tape