ABC Bingo
Easy to make out of construction paper or poster board. Use buttons or beans to cover spaces.
Have children match as you call out lower/uppercase, etc, first child to cover card yells "Bingo."
Prizes can be simple, such as a granola snack or extended time in a certain area.

Aluminum "A"
Cut aluminum foil into long strips and glue to a large cutout letter "A".
Discuss the uses of aluminum with your kids, as well as recycling.
Have each child bring something recyclable from home and let them place in a recycle bin.

"A" Sounds
Talk about things from home that begin with the letter "A" and see how many things the children can think of.

Airplanes
Make paper airplanes and fly them around, or line up chairs in 2 rows and pretend it's the inside of an airplane.
Make up your own tickets, provide flags for someone to wave when the runway is clear.

I know my Address!
Encourage each child to memorize his or her address.
Draw and cut out a large construction paper house to place on a bulletin board.
Then, as the children memorize their addresses, invite them to pin his or her name and address on the house shape.
A good way to help children remember their address is to have them sing it to the tune of a simple song such as "Rain, rain go away."

Animals, animals everywhere!
Take the children to a zoo! Most all zoos have a petting area for younger children.
Talk about each animal and what it eats, what it feels like, and whether or not it would make a good pet.

The "A" Box
Decorate a box with the letter "A". Inside the box place items or pictures of items that begin with the letter "A".
This also works well if you use pictures, and have each child in turn draw out one picture and tell it's name and what they would do with it.

Acrobatic "A"'s
Divide the children into groups of threes. Have the children in each group lie on the floor and use their bodies to form the letter "A".
Let the children in each group trade places and form the letter "A" again, so each child gets a turn at being a different part of the "A".
Then have the children gather in larger groups and form a giant "A".

Astronomical Astronauts
At circle time, show the children pictures of astronauts and talk about what they do.
Transform your drama center into the moon.
Give the children white shirts, boots, and helmets to wear for the astronaut's clothing.
You can make an astronaut's helmet by using a paper grocery bag or cardboard box and decorating with foil, stickers, pipe cleaners, Styrofoam balls and other items found in daycare.
Have pictures of planets hanging all around the center, and maybe even have the children paint a mural of a rocket ship during creative time and put that up on the wall.
Have the children pretend they're walking on the moon, and talk about what it would be like to be weightless in space.

"A" is for animals
Cut out magazine pictures of animals and laminate, if you wish.
Have the children put them on the wall in daycare to make your own zoo, or put the pictures together in a picture book for the daycare.
Then have the children draw 4 of their favorite animals and make a picture book for each child to take home.
Alternatively, photocopy animal coloring book pages for the children to color and make a picture book.

Animal Masks
Make animal masks out of paper plates or grocery bags using decorative items such as stickers, tissue paper, markers, glue, yarn, etc.
Have a puppet show or small play and let the children make up their own lines for their animal.

Moon Walk
Along the astronaut theme, have children look for "moon rocks" in a treasure hunt.
Make the moon rocks out of balled-up aluminum foil or paint Styrofoam balls in silver.

"A" is for Antarctica, Africa, and Australia
Use a globe or world map to show the children where these different continents are compared to our own.
Talk about what a continent is, and read books or show videos on the different continents to learn about their culture.
Encourage the children to become a group pen pal (for younger children) or individual pen pals (for older children) with children from other places in the world.
There are sources all over the internet to get them started on this.
You can also explore what kinds of toys children on these continents play with, and show the children how to make their own.

Alligator Fun
Let the children pretend to be alligators in a swamp.
Call "Alligators Go!" and "Alligators Stop!" at random.
When the Alligators are all going, they make the short sound of the letter "A".
When they are stopped, they are very quiet.
Anyone who makes a sound when they're stopped is "eaten" and is out.

Who Am I?
Give the children clues about an animal, and let them guess which animal you are describing.

Where Do I Belong?
Mount pictures of animals on a tag board or felt board. Have the children sort the pictures into farm, pet or zoo categories.

Grow Your Own Avocado Plant!
Get several avocados. Cut them open to remove the pits.
Help the children plant the pits by sticking three toothpicks in the sides of each pit, evenly spaced.
Fill a small glass with water, and set the pits so that the pointed end of the pit is in the water.
Watch the root of the avocado grow, then replant in loose soil.
This makes a beautiful plant, but it will usually not yield avocados, as most avocado trees take an average of 13 years to produce fruit, and they must be cross-pollinated with other avocado trees to produce fruit.

Accordion Folding
Teach the children to make accordion folds, and have them create something that makes use of the folds.
Examples include a bird with wings, a woman wearing a skirt, or a simple paper fan.

Alphabet Hunt:
Hide some pictures of things beginning with the letter "A", around the room, some easily visible and some a little harder to find.
Then let the children go on a hunt for the pictures.

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"B" Different!
Get pictures of birds, butterflies, bees, bears, bunnies...
Read and talk about how they are alike and how they are different. What is big? What is small?

Bees
Ask a beekeeper to come to your school/home. We had one who brought everything he used. It was fascinating for us to see all their equipment and the bees, their honey, etc. Talk about queen bees, drone bees, worker bees.
Play "the Flight of the Bumblebee" and teach the children to do the tail wagging dance that bees do when they return to their beehive.

Bounce balls
Balance bean bags on your head while walking on a balance.

Bones
Collect and clean bones from the kitchen: chicken, turkey, beef, pork, lamb.
Sort them and talk about where each came from and what animal.

Let's Pretend
Pretend you are a bag piper, baby, bike, bear, bat, bee, bed, bird, butterfly, bunny, bubble, bean, baseball player, ballerina, etc.

Beans
Do a comparison on the different kinds of beans. Have a bean buffet! ( make different bean dishes)
Make a graph asking: Which beans do you like best? Green beans, Lima beans, Baked Beans, Refried Beans,etc.

Bugs
Ask the Orkin man or another pest control company representative to come to your school/home and give a lecture on bugs.
They usually have samples and may even have coloring books!

Birds
Do a study on birds and have a guest bring birds to your class or go to a zoo or a bird center.

Baskets
Have someone come in to demonstrate basket weaving.

Letter Bag
Introduce each letter by pulling out a Letter Bag (gallon size Ziploc bag containing things that begin with that letter).
The B Bag could contain: buttons, belt, beans, brads, a beet, beads, a bottle of bubbles, a banana (plastic one wouldn't have to be replaced), a stuffed bear, miniature ball, bag, bandana, barrette, bell, bone, bottle, basket, badge, book, balloon, etc.

"B" Box
Have a box containing things that begin with "B" and things that do not. As you remove the things from the box, have students identify them.
Then allow students the opportunity to choose one thing each that begins with the "B" and place it back into the box. Those things that do not begin with B do not go into the box.
You may have the students identify what sound that they begin with also. (Some things that could be used that were not listed for the B Bag are: basketball, baseball, barbecue sauce, bowl, backpack, boot, and battery.)

Beautiful Babies!
Encourage each child to bring a baby picture of himself or herself to school. Display the pictures on a bulletin board.
Invite the children to guess who the babies are. Put in one of your own.

Balloon Lotto
Make a balloon lotto game by dividing a piece of heavy white paper into six sections and drawing a different colored balloon in each square.
Cut matching colored squares out of construction paper.
To play the game, have the children take turns placing the construction paper squares on top of the matching colored balloons.

Balloon Fish
Partially blow up ten small balloons. Place them in a dish pan full of water.
Set the pan on the floor and let the children take turns fishing for balloon fish with a food strainer.
Help each child count his or her catch before putting the fish back in the pan.

Balloon "Keep it Up"
Give each child a balloon. Have the children practice blowing them up.
Help each child tie his or her balloon and play "Balloon Keep It Up".
See how long the children can keep their balloons up in the air without letting them touch the ground.

Balloon Match
To make the game, draw or trace a picture of a clown holding a bunch of balloons on 8 X 12 poster board. Draw the balloons by tracing around a plastic milk cap.
You'll need to save caps in several colors.
With markers, color the clown and each balloon to match your collection of milk caps. To make the board longer lasting, use Contact paper.

Fun With Beanbags
Play a type of tic-tac-toe game where they toss the beanbags onto a board and try to have them land on certain targets.
You could also put letters on the floor, have the children toss a bean bag, and have them name the letter that it lands on.
More advanced children might think of a word that starts with the letter.

Balance
Challenge the children to try walking with a book or beanbag balanced on their heads. Then ask the children to stand with one foot lifted up off the ground.
Then have them close their eyes. Discuss what happens!

Balance Beam
Tape a long strip of wide tape down the middle of a hallway floor.
Challenge the children to walk along the tape line.
See who can walk the farthest without stepping off the tape.

Bean Counter
Give each child one sectioned half of an egg carton and a large handful of dried beans. Post a number between one and ten (depending on the maturity of the children).
Ask the children to count that many beans into each section of their egg cartons.

Backwards Exploring
Try a backward day. What can you wear backwards? You can wear a hat, shirt, or pants backward.
What else can be worn backwards? Can shoes be worn backwards? What are some reasons we don't spend our lives walking backwards?
What would life be like if we had to walk backward?

The Magic Bus
Make a bus out of your chairs (put them all in a big box the kids paint is even more fun) and go on an imaginary trip and see all sorts of B things out the window.

Bus, part 2
Will your local bus company bring a bus for the kids to see inside or can you take a bus ride if you have public transportation available?

Bowling
Use any ball and 2 Liter soda bottles with a little sand in the bottom.
Great fun indoors or out.

Books
A show and tell day could center around everyone's favorite book.

Balloons
Depends on the age for safety! Fill them with a couple scoops of confetti and then blow them up.
Have the kids jump on them and pop them.

Bank
Set up a bank in dramatic play area. Make sure you have a briefcase and deposit slips, etc.
A local bank or parent might make a donation.
Our local bank has a special program for kids. They might do a field trip.

Beautiful!
Help the children make a list of beautiful items, such as a rainbow, a ring, or a sunset.
Ask each child to draw a picture of the item that he or she thinks is the most beautiful.

B Show and Tell
Send a note home asking all the children to bring something for "show and tell" that begins with the letter B.
This works best if the kids can bring something on any day of the week because inevitably, some of the kids and/or parents forget.
When the children share this item that they bring, ask them to put it beside, below or beneath a box.

Babies
Use the opportunity to discuss babies.
The kids can bathe them and give them a bottle and a binky.

Bread
Make some. Those new bread makers aren't quite the same as the good old' days of kneading and punching, but they are fun to use.
Also, a field trip to the bakery will thrill the kids too!

Blow Bubbles
Try different shaped "blowers" to get different effects.
See who can blow the biggest bubble.

Boots
Bring in all kinds -- borrow some from the fire department, a fisherman, a hunter, a soldier or sailor, a construction worker... can you match the boots to their job?

Barney
Dance to loud Barney music or watch a Barney video, as long as your sanity holds out.

Band
Get bells and a drum to bang. Go get some kazoos at the dollar store and have a marching band.
Add other instruments and walk around the block a few times.

Beanie Babies
If you have them, share them. If not, I bet some of the kids do.
Encourage the children to make up stories and plays involving their beanie babies.

B Circle
Have the children stand in a circle.
Throw the ball to a child who has to say something that begins with B. That child then throws to another, etc.
Continue until no more words can be thought of.

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It

Rules

This game is also known as Touch, Tag or Catch.

The person who is IT has to run after the other people and try and touch them. If you are touched by IT, then you then become IT or the chaser.

There are two main rules:

1. IT or the chaser must not run after the same person all the time.

2. If you are caught by the chaser, you cannot try to catch the person who caught you straight away.

In one version of this game, you can to call a short truce. This happens when someone being chased crosses their fingers and shouts "kings".

This means that you can not be caught, but it’s not fair to call "kings" every time you are on the point of being caught!

You may decide to rule "no kings".

What you need

Nothing except space to run around in.

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Farmer's in his den

Rules

One person is IT and stands in the middle of a circle of children who hold hands. Everyone sings:

The Farmer’s in his den,
The Farmer’s in his den,
E I de addy oh,
The Farmer’s in his den.

The Farmer wants a wife,
The Farmer wants a wife,
E I de addy oh,
The Farmer wants a wife.

The Farmer chooses a wife to join him in the centre of the circle. They hold hands and circle round while the others sing:

The wife wants a child,
The wife wants a child,
E I de addy oh,
The wife wants a child.

The Farmer’s wife chooses someone to stand in the centre. The farmer, wife and child hold hands and circle round while the others sing:

The child wants a nurse,
The child wants a nurse,
E I de addy oh,
The child wants a nurse.

The child chooses a nurse who joins the inside circle. As before, everyone sings:

The nurse wants a dog,
The nurse wants a dog,
E I de addy oh,
The nurse wants a dog.

A dog is chosen by the nurse and joins the others in the centre of the circle. Everyone sings and pats the dog on the head:

Everyone pat the dog,
Everyone pats the dog,
E I de addy oh,
Everyone pats the dog.

When the dog has been chosen and the final part of the song sung, the dog then becomes the farmer and the game starts again.

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Wall to wall

Rules

This game is also known as Den to den, Top and bottom or Running across.

The aim of this game is to cross from one place to another without being caught. One person is IT and stands in the middle of the space between two walls or bases. Everyone else lines up along one base or wall.

When IT gives the signal, the other players have to try and run across the space to the other base. If they are touched by IT then they must go into the middle and try to touch or tig the other players.

If they reach the other base or wall, they can wait while they count to 10 and then have to run back to the first base or wall and so on until everyone has been caught.

 Once you have started running from one side to another you must keep going, you can not turn back.

 You must not wait at any base for longer than it takes you to count to 10.

 If you turn back or wait too long then you must join IT in the middle.

 The last one to be caught is the winner.

What you need

An open space to cross from one place to another (such as across a playground from wall to wall)

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LEAPFROG

Rules

This game is also known as Frog jump.

The simplest way for two people to play Leapfrog is for one person to turn sideways to the other person, bend over, put their hands on their knees or legs and tuck their head in towards their chest. They are then a frog.

The other person then has to run and leap over the frog, placing their hands on the frog’s back to help them over. This game can also be played in a larger group with a line of frogs to keep it going for longer –

The game ends when you get tired, run out of space or time or fall over!

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Hide and seek

Rules

This game is also known as Hide-and-tig, Hide and Hide-and-go-seek.

One person is IT and they are the seeker, or person who will look for the other players.

The person who is IT stands at the base (home). They cover their eyes or turn around.

They count to an agreed number, or recite a tune or particular words, while the rest of the players hide.

When the counting or rhyme is finished, IT says “Ready or not, here I come” or “Coming, ready or not” and runs to find everyone.

The people who are hidden remain hiding until they are found and the last one to be found is the winner.

What you need

An open space with places to hide or players to be unseen

An agreed spot for the base or home

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Marbles

Rules

Marbles involves rolling or throwing your marble to either try and hit a target marble or to hit the other players’ marbles.

Decide if you are playing for “keepsies” (players keep the marbles they win in the game) or “playing fair” (everyone gets their own marbles back at the end of the game).

Draw a circle on the ground. Each player should put an agreed number of marbles in it and stand behind a line drawn some distance away. The aim is to hit the marbles out of the circle.

Take turns to roll, throw or flick a marble (called a shooter) into the circle, trying to hit the marbles out of it.

If you knock a marble out of the taw you get to keep it. If the shooter stays in the circle, it stays there and it is the next players turn. If it comes out you can fetch it and have another go.

Carry on having turns until all the marbles in the circle have been won. The person with the most marbles wins.

What you need

A hard, flat ground surface

Marbles!

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