Circles Toddler Theme

August -- Week 3
Circles

Ideal for
16 months -
2 1/2 years CREATIVE
ACTIVITIES SPECIAL TOYS & GAMES BIBLE LANGUAGE

MONDAY Make Paper Plate Frisbees--Decorate with dot stickers, markers, crayons or whatever. Talk about how the plate is a circle. Throw Frisbees--Toss the frisbees you made around the room. Outside, throw regular frisbees. Recite:
"God created all things." John 1:3
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Read
Jesus Turns Water Into Juice, page 94

Attention Getter:
Tell this story at snack time when you serve juice.

Sign Language: Drink

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This Is a Circle - sung to "Frere Jacques"
This is a circle, this is a circle.
How can you tell? How can you tell?
It goes round and round,
No end can be found.
It's a circle, it's a circle.
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Note: Add this section for older children. Click here for
Planning Ideas.
Flash Cards and/or Felt Shapes:
Water Into Wine from Trueway Kids
Letters: A, B
Number: 1, 2
Color: Red
Shape: Circle

TUESDAY Make a Circle Collage . . . glue lids, old CDs, dot stickers, hole punch, etc. on a paper plate. Play Let's Go 'Round the Hula-Hoop
Tune: London Bridge
Let's go 'round the Hula-Hoop,
Hula-Hoop, Hula-Hoop.
Let's go 'round the Hula-Hoop,
Round the circle.

WEDNESDAY Teach all or some of this Water Into Wine lesson and crafts from Misson Arlington.

Chip Drop--Cut a slit in old oatmeal containers big enough for poker chips to fit in. The children love to drop the chips in the hole. Talk about the shape and color--especially the red ones. Make a trail of chips to put in the containers.
THURSDAY Lego Stamp--Stamp the top of a Duplo Lego onto a stamp pad and make prints of circles on construction paper. Be sure to write this month's Bible verse on the papers.
Get the tunnel out and let them go in the circle!
Dont' have a tunnel?
Use a Hula-Hoop.

FRIDAY Use Bingo Dobbers on paper plates to make a pretty picture. Ball Day! Roll balls of different sizes. Talk about their shape.

SNACKS & ALTERNATE ACTIVITIES

Snacks
Banana Rounds
Carrot Rounds
Peas
Cookies
Ritz Crackers Roll Ball in Paint then down some newsprint or newspaper.

Make a round Sun. Paint a paper plate with white glue and sprinkle with cornmeal.
Play Ring Around the Rosie Check out Circles on my Theme Page.

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Ideal for 16 months - 2 1/2 years	CREATIVE ACTIVITIES	SPECIAL TOYS & GAMES	BIBLE	LANGUAGE
MONDAY	Make Paper Plate Frisbees--Decorate with dot stickers, markers, crayons or whatever. Talk about how the plate is a circle.	Throw Frisbees--Toss the frisbees you made around the room. Outside, throw regular frisbees.	Recite: "God created all things." John 1:3 *** Read Jesus Turns Water Into Juice**, page 94 Attention Getter: Tell this story at snack time when you serve juice.	Sign Language: Drink *** This Is a Circle - sung to "Frere Jacques" This is a circle, this is a circle. How can you tell? How can you tell? It goes round and round, No end can be found. It's a circle, it's a circle. * Note: Add this section for older children. Click here for Planning Ideas. Flash Cards and/or Felt Shapes: Water Into Wine from Trueway Kids Letters: A, B Number: 1, 2 Color: Red Shape: Circle**
TUESDAY	Make a Circle Collage . . . glue lids, old CDs, dot stickers, hole punch, etc. on a paper plate.	Play Let's Go 'Round the Hula-Hoop Tune: London Bridge Let's go 'round the Hula-Hoop, Hula-Hoop, Hula-Hoop. Let's go 'round the Hula-Hoop, Round the circle.
WEDNESDAY	Teach all or some of this Water Into Wine lesson and crafts from Misson Arlington.	Chip Drop--Cut a slit in old oatmeal containers big enough for poker chips to fit in. The children love to drop the chips in the hole. Talk about the shape and color--especially the red ones. Make a trail of chips to put in the containers.
THURSDAY	Lego Stamp--Stamp the top of a Duplo Lego onto a stamp pad and make prints of circles on construction paper. Be sure to write this month's Bible verse on the papers.	Get the tunnel out and let them go in the circle! Dont' have a tunnel? Use a Hula-Hoop.
FRIDAY	Use Bingo Dobbers on paper plates to make a pretty picture.	Ball Day! Roll balls of different sizes. Talk about their shape.
SNACKS & ALTERNATE ACTIVITIES
Snacks Banana Rounds Carrot Rounds Peas Cookies Ritz Crackers	Roll Ball in Paint then down some newsprint or newspaper.	Make a round Sun. Paint a paper plate with white glue and sprinkle with cornmeal.	Play Ring Around the Rosie	Check out Circles on my Theme Page.