SEVEN-BEAD NECKLACE (or BRACLET)
You will need some form of play dough for this activity.
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Set out some play dough (one or several colors). |
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Show your children how to roll small balls from the dough. |
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Then give them a 3” section of a straw. |
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Show them how to push the straw through the center of their ball, leaving a hole. |
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Have each child make seven play dough beads. |
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Have children set their beads on a paper plate with their name on the plate. |
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Let beads dry. |
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When the beads are hard, give each child a piece of yarn to string the beads together. (8 inches if they are making bracelets or longer if they are making necklaces). |
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You may want to wrap one end of the yarn with scotch tape to make a stiff needle. |
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I like to tape necklace yarn ends together, so child can easily slip it on or off and so there are no long pieces of yarn laying around.) |
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Have children count the beads on their jewelry.
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SEVEN SUNNY SUNFLOWERS
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Cut out sunflower petals out of yellow paper. |
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Cut sunflower center circles out of brown paper. |
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Give seven petals and one center circle to each child along with a background piece of paper. |
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Set out some glue and glue brushes. |
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Have your children glue the brown sunflower center in the middle of their background paper. |
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Then have them glue the seven yellow petals around the outside of the center circle. |
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Then set out some sunflower seeds (unshelled) and have your children glue seven sunflower seeds on their brown flower centers. |
| Extension: Set out strips of green paper for children to add flower stems and small leaves if they wish. |
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DECORATING SEVENS
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Cut out large seven shapes for your children. |
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Give each child a shape and let them decorate their seven in one of these ways.
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Set out a star stamp and have them stamp on seven stars. |
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Let them stick on seven stickers. |
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Let them glue on seven cotton balls for “heavenly” sevens. |
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Let them glue on seven toothpicks, for seven sticks. |
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Have them use a paint dobber to press on seven dots.
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MAKE A WEEK CHAIN CALENDAR
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Set out some 1” x 6” paper strips. |
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Have your children make a paper chain with seven sections. |
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Hang up the calendars. |
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Have each child count the chains on their calendar. |
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Each day have children remove one of their chains. |
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If you are making the calendar in a school setting, explain to your children that the two chains left on their calendar at the end of the week are for the two days they do not come to school. |
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LUCKY SEVEN GAME
This is a dice game and it is best played with four.
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Have children sit in a circle on the floor. |
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Set out two dice. |
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Let your children take turns rolling the two dice. |
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If the dots on the two dice equals seven, the child gets a gold paper circle. |
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If a child rolls another number combination, they get nothing. |
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Go around the group, four or five times. |
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The child with the most gold paper coins, is the winner. |
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SEVEN PAIRS
This is a matching game for a small group of two or three children.
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Deal each child seven cards. |
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Place the remaining cards in the middle of the table. |
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Have children turn their cards face up in front of them. |
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Explain that they are looking for pairs of matching cards. |
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If any of their cards match, they can put them together and turn them over. |
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Children take turns drawing one card. |
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If the card they draw is a match with one of their other cards, they turn the two cards over. |
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If the card they draw is not a match, they just add the card to the cards in front of them. |
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The first child to get seven matches if the winner.
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SEVEN UP
This is a card game for three to five players.
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Have children sit on the floor. |
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Shuffle a deck of cards and place the cards in the middle of the circle. |
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Each child takes a turn turning over a card. |
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If the card is not a seven, they place the card in a discard pile. |
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If the card is a seven the child wins the game. |
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Reshuffle the cards and repeat the game if interest lasts. |
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SNOW WHITE
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Read your children the story of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. |
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Have them act out the story or just act out the “Seven Dwarfs” part. |
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Choose seven students to be the seven happy miners who live together in the woods. |
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Have everyone sing the following song as they march off to work.
HEIGH HO, HEIGH HO
Sung to: “Heigh ho, Heigh ho”
Heigh ho, heigh ho
It’s off to work we go.
We work all day
And then we play
Heigh ho, away! |
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SEVEN SHINY SEASHELLS
Seven shinny seashells, sitting on the sand.
Listening to the ocean, splash on the land.
The waves roll in, the waves roll out.
Six shinny seashells, left laying about.
Six shinny seashells sitting on the sand.
Listening to the ocean, splash on the land.
The waves roll in, the waves roll out.
Five shinny seashells, left laying about.
(Continue poems, eliminating one shell each verse.)
Jean Warren
Pick seven children to be the seven shinning seashells.
Point to one child each time to roll (or walk) away when the waves roll out. |
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SHAVING CREAM SEVENS
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Take a baking sheet and spray some shaving cream on it. |
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Let your children take turns writing the number seven in the cream. |
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PRACTICE WRITING SEVEN
Here is a poem to help your children learn to correctly write the number seven.
Go back straight
Then slant down.
The number seven
Will be found!
Jean Warren
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SEVEN DAYS OF THE WEEK
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Cut out paper strips 2” x 14” |
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Mark the strips into seven square boxes. |
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Write the days of the week at the top of the boxes. |
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Give a strip and some crayons to each child. |
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Have them decorate each box with a design or a picture. |
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Have them hang up their week calendars. |
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Each day have them mark off a day on their calendar. |
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SEVEN ANTS ON A LOG
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Make long peanut butter logs with celery stocks and peanut butter. |
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Let your children place seven raisin ants on their log. |
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SEVEN GRAPE STICKS
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Let each child pick out seven small pretzel sticks and seven green grapes. |
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Have children stick a pretzel in each grape to make seven grape sticks. |
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SEVEN LITTLE RACE CARS
Seven little race cars speeding ‘round the track.
One lost a wheel, only six came back.
Six little race cars speeding ‘round the track.
One hit the rail, only five came back.
Five little race cars speeding ‘round the track.
One turned over, only four came back.
Four little race cars speeding ‘round the track.
One spun out, only three came back.
Three little race cars speeding ‘round the track.
One over heated, only two came back.
Two little race cars speeding ‘round the track.
One ran out of gas, only one came back.
One little race car speeding ‘round the track.
The winner of the race, he came back!
Jean Warren
Let your children act out this action rhyme.
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SEVEN LITTLE PEAS
Seven little peas jumped in the pot.
They swam around, ‘til it got hot.
Then they softened as you can see
And turned into pea puree!
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