SPECIAL
DAYS OF FUNSPECIAL
DAYS OF FUN
From
Stormie:
Inside Out Day: Children
wear their clothing to camp inside-out. Believe it or not, this activity
has benefits other than fun. Children can practice observation skills by
comparing the differences between inside-out and right-side out: How does the
fabric look? Does it feel different on your body? How can you tell
when clothing is inside-out? (Tags.) For their comfort, help the children
change their clothing to right-side out after a few laughs and the little grouptime
discussion just mentioned.
Extension:
Provide a box of clothing for children to turn inside-out
and right-side out for comparisons. Actually, this is also a good fine motor
activity.
Backwards Day: Children wear their clothing to
camp backwards. You can take them through the same process as above.
Hat Day: Children wear a funny, unique, or special hat to camp/school. For example, I'm a big Orlando Magic basketball fan so I simply wore my Orlando Magic cap (real original, huh?), but the kids got a kick out of seeing me in it. We had a special show-n-tell session so each child could tell the others about his/her hat. When sending a note home in advance about this special day, you can suggest these hat options, to name a few: sun visor, straw, cowboy, fishing, baseball cap, bonnet, toboggan.
Glasses Day: Children wear funny, unique, or special
sunglasses to camp/school (or other type of eyewear). Again, I went for
my basketball team and wore goggles like those worn by one of my favorite players
on the team. The kids really had a great time laughing at my expense this
time! (I should explain that on this particular year, I had lots of little
boys in my class who, believe it or not, were into basketball and our Orlando
Magic. Our community is just down the road from Orlando, Florida, so it's
a big deal around here.) Most of the children wore children's sunglasses
having various cartoon characters on them, or they (with their parent's help)
decorated a pair of plain sunglasses with collage materials.
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