Curriculum Activities List

- Edible frog life cycles
- Frog fly in cup game
- Frog egg sensory bin: https://www.prekprintablefun.com/blog/frog-egg-sensory-bin-tutorial
- Frog and fly craft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51H8iiOfKs
- Jumping frog origami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxYNq4sYA5I

- Jungle animal yoga
- Jaguar heads
- Endangered and Threatened Species Posters
- Roller paint jaguar (12:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4Uhd88Uqw

- Chicken egg rockets: https://thestemlaboratory.com/easter-egg-rockets/#:~:text=Once%20you%20are%20all%20ready,inside%20your%20Easter%20egg%20rocket.
- Chicken in a cup:
- Hatching chick craft
- Chicken noodle tag

- Blubber experiement
- Bubble painted whale
- Rock walrus
- How do Narwhals communicate activity
- Scrape paint narwhal

- Tiger marble painting
- Tiger hand puppets
- Bouncy tiger craft

- Intro to Ballet
- Freeze Dance
- Make a Firebird Masks
- Dance Painting with Feet

- Improvisation Activities
- DIY Musical Instruments
- "2-Minute DIY Water Trombone"
- Jazz Dance

- Basket Weaving (Cardboard)
- Basket Weaving (Paper plates)
- Woven Newspaper Sit Upon

Nature Haiku

- Natural Watercolor
- Origami Strawberry

Movement Moment

Bracelet Making (connection between people and the land represented by beads - animals, plants, community)

Cardboard Guitar Making

Salmon Life Cycle Craft (Instructions, Printout)

- Learn to jump rope
- Make found collages with paint and other objects
- Visit a community garden or botanical garden
- Make a crown and write all the things that make you proud of who you are on the inside.
- Design and make butterflies. Can be invented or inspired by real ones.
- Craft and decorate a hat like Ms. Sarah’s

- Summer group games (hide & seek, kick the can, tag, etc)
- Learn to jump rope
- Skully board creation and lessons
- Design, build and decorate cardboard box forts
- Share your favorite summer game and teach it to the group

- Learn a bilingual song, it can be English and Spanish or any language you choose.
- The characters discuss how the border can be difficult and hard, design a border that you think would be more comfortable for crossing, what did you add or take away, and why? Use your imagination!
- Play a game in which you have to work on a challenge together, but aren’t allowed to use words to work together. How will you communicate? Is it possible to work together without speaking the same language? What worked and what didn’t?
- Think about a place you regularly visit that isn’t home. Draw a picture and explain how it is the same and how it is different.
- Go to your local market, farmer’s market, or outdoor market and see if it looks anything like the market in this book.

- Build a city out of blocks, Legos, and other manipulatives. Who lives there? Why did you design it how you did? It can be a fun competition if you’d like.
- Make an artistic city skyline at night.
- Set the room space up like it is nighttime, could be part of a PJ day with stuffies, etc., to read about nighttime.
- Share favorite nighttime activities or adventures with each other
- Make DIY Scratch Art

- Create graffiti-style art
- Write an ode to your city, neighborhood, or block
- Listen to hip hop beats and make up lyrics or a dance
- Make sno-cones

Paper Chain Friend craft: May need to modify for younger participants. Consider pre-cutting some paper chains.

Learn a Hula

Water Xylophone Experiment

Vinegar and Baking Soda Rocket

Listen to recordings of birds local to your area, then take a field trip to a local park or hiking trail (or just sit outside) and see if students can identify any birds by their sounds! Source

Visit a local apiary, or have a Beekeeper do a demonstration for your students.
In Seattle, consider a Field Trip to the West Seattle Bee Garden: http://www.westseattlebeegarden.com/visit.html

Play Up, Down, Stop, Go
https://www.playworks.org/game-library/up-down-stop-go/