Child development opportunities
To listen carefully and respond to the instructions To increase colour awareness and vocabulary To think about Christmas celebrations
How to play
* Explain that you are going to decorate a big Christmas tree and the children are going to be baubles.
* Ask them to choose a colour.
* Draw circles on the ground for each colour and ask the children to select one and stand in it.
* Draw an imaginary tree on the ground and explain that you will call out colours as you need them.
* When they hear their colour, they dance around the imaginary tree.
* When there are several colours dancing around, the wind comes. Choose someone to be the wind.
* As the wind blows WOOO! it tries to touch the decorations before they get back to safety in their circles.
* Any decoration touched by the wind is out, down to the last child, who becomes the star on top of the tree!
Tips
* Take the role of the wind yourself the first time you play.
* Follow up the game by painting your own baubles on a big tree.
For more games, see Acker Backa BOO! - Games to Say and Play From Around the World by Opal Dunn (Frances Lincoln, 10.99) ) Opal Dunn. The author disclaims responsibility for any adverse effects resulting directly or indirectly from the game outlined.
