Imaginative
- Set up a hero home base include computers, maps, boxes for cars and other things that may be found
- Set up a police/fire station, place out hoses and pictures of fires
- Place out capes, masks, tools for the children to be superhero’s
Language
- Place out the book “The Children’s book of heroes” discuss what makes a hero and how they can be their own hero
- Read “Betty butterfly to the rescue”
- Make a large card allow the children to say why they thank our local heroes write it down, deliver it to our heroes
- Read “Search and rescue dogs”
- Read “Super Sister”
- Make word bubbles
- Place out super hero pictures for creating stories with
Art
- Make a giant super hero, place a cut out of a shadow of a child, allow them to color, glue, paint their super hero
- Place out mask shapes, allow the children to decorate them
- Place out materials, have the children design a cape (newspaper works well)
- Make badges, using cardboard covered with foil, allow the children to decorate it
- Place out different colors of paper and a mac-tac person, allow the children to make a collage
Water/Sand
- Put floating rings into the water with cups and people
- Place boats into the water table with sharks
- Place plastic dogs, and boxes with different size holes in them for sifting
- Place emergency vehicles in the sand table
- Place small pylons into the sand with vehicles
Gross Motor
- Play a game of pin (double sided tape) the cape on the hero
- Set up an obstacle course for the children to follow
- Go on a scavenger hunt for super heroes
- Villain bowling; have the children bowl seeing how many they can knock over
- Play a game of hero, hero villain
- Place out a parachute, place a ball in the middle, see if the children can keep the bubble from hitting the ground
Science/Curiosity
- Place out a flashlight with different symbols, allow the children to explore the symbol (bat symbol)
- Place out spiders for the children to view
- Set out strings for making webs, have pictures out
- Make slime
- Cornstarch and water
- Make silly putty
- Equal parts liquid starch and glue (to sticky add more starch to stringy more glue) add glow paint for even more fun
Blocks
- Place out red emergency lights and pylons for building with
- Place out large trucks houses and heroes
Conceptual/Table top/Fine motor
- Place out play dough and little people
- Copy pictures of super heroes make a memory game
- Take pictures of the children, enlarge them, place out die cut masks, dry erase markers; allow the children to create themselves as heroes
- Place out Dalmatian dogs with different number of dots count the dots and place the number by them
- Lace up capes
- Place out boots and have the children lace them
- Charge devise sorting; place out a container of pom- poms and tweezers have the children pick out different colors for sorting
- Make puzzles for the children to make
Music
- Sing the song “I’m a super hero”
- I'm a superhero! I'm a superhero! Super, superhero!
I can jump I can run I can hide I can cook I'm a superhero!
I'm a superhero! Super, superhero!
I can stretch I can climb I can swim I can fly I'm a superhero!
I'm a superhero! Super, superhero!
Quiet
- Place out pictures of heroes on a magnetic board allow the children to make stories
Cooking
- Make a hero sandwich
- Bread, tomato, ham, cheese, pickles, lettuce mayo mustard. Place the items on the table give each child two slices of bread allow them to make their hero sandwich
Field trip
- Take a trip to the police station
- Take a trip to the local fire hall
