Preschool Day Red Riding Hood

This was a really fun day for the kids! My little guy is super into anything that involves a wolf, and Chelsea likes baking cookies any day                                                                      

·        Stories- Different versions of Red Riding Hood. Our favorite is the James Marshall version. We love those illustrations and counting all the kitties everywhere!

 

 

·        Songs- “Over the River And Through the Woods”

·        Letters- Put some “cookies” in a basket with sight words on them. The kids pick out a cookie to feed Grandma, tell her the word, and she gobbles it up

·        Numbers and Colors- Bake cookies (M&M) and have kids sort colors of candies into categories. See how many blues/ red/ yellow/ etc. (There is a cute M&M counting book we have used). Which has more? Less? Most? Least? Count how many cookies we can bake, and practice simple subtraction- if we have 10 cookies, and give Grandma 6, how many do we have left?

 

 

·        Gross Motor- Freeze Dance! Put on some music and pretend to be RRH running, skipping, and dancing through the forest, then freeze when the music stops (wolf comes). Or else (if you have access to a beam) have the kids walk on the beam in a variety of ways (tiptoes, heel walks, kicks, backwards, bunny hops) like Red Riding Hood crossing the bridge over the river to Grandma's house

·        Snack- Share a snack with grandma! Have cookies, milk, little sandwiches

·        Science- Do animals really talk? Would a grandma and little girl really fit into a wolf? Could a wolf really swallow them whole? (Reality vs. Fantasy)

·        Sensory- Pretend to be the wolf and hide behind the tree. How does a tree feel? How does grass feel? How about the bed clothes?

 

·        Art- Design a red cape for a dolly! Cut fabric, decorate with markers, tie onto a dolly so she can be Red Riding Hood

·        OT activity- Red Riding Hood block puzzle! Scatter the pieces all around the floor, and have kids belly down on a scooter pull themselves around to get a piece, then work on rotating wrist fully to put puzzle pieces into place

 

 

 

·        Interactive Game- Act out Red Riding Hood. Switch up the parts, use props, costumes, etc.

·        Vocabulary- Watch ASL Red Riding Hood Sign Me a Story and review the signs, words, and meanings- in ASL and English 

• Receptive Language- Sequence the story with pictures! (Red Riding Hood goes into woods, meets wolf, Wolf eats Grandma and RRH, Hunter kills Wolf, Grandma and RRH are safe and share a snack)

 

• Outing- If you have one near, really bring your Grandma cookies! Wear a red coat and tell her that you are Red Riding Hood bring her cookies (c'mon, what Grandma wouldn't love this???) Or for the overachievers, take your kiddo to see "Into the Woods Jr." It has Red Riding Hood in it, among many other fairy tale characters, and is cute.