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DUCK QUICK STARTS
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Quack like ducks. |
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Waddle like ducks. |
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Make hand print ducks. |
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Let your children use swim flippers to pretend they are duck feet. |
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Give your children plastic duck beaks to wear. |
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Use spatula dipped in paint to make duck feet prints. |
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Sing about ducks on Old Mac Donald’s Farm. |
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FOOT PRINT DUCKS
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Have your child place his bare foot on a piece of heavy yellow paper and draw around his foot. |
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Cut out the foot shape and have your child glue it onto a piece of blue construction paper, with the heel end up. |
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Give your child an orange triangle beak to glue to one side. |
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Then set out some small yellow feathers for your child to glue onto the ducks body. |
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WALKING DUCK PUPPET
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Cut out a simple duck shape facing front, circle head and circle body (Kind of like a snowman shape) |
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Fold the bottom of the duck shape up and then cut out two half-circles along the bottom of the fold. |
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Unfold the paper, and you should have two finger holes, where your child can stick two fingers, thus adding legs to your puppet and allowing it to “walk”. |
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Add a folded diamond shaped orange paper beak and two round paper eyes. |
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Using a yellow crayon or marker, have your child color the body and head of the walking duck. |
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Have your child use the “walking duck” when she sings duck songs, or wants to tell a simple duck story.
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DUCK SHAPES
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Cut out duck shapes and have your child glue one on a piece of paper and then draw or glue grass under the duck shape to create a duck nest. |
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Use duck shapes on which to glue small brown or yellow feathers. |
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Cut duck shapes out of various brown materials, for a duck collage. |
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CLAY DUCKS
You will need soft brown clay for this activity.
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Show your child how to take a small amount of clay and roll it into a ball. |
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Then show him how to make a small pinch at the top side of the ball to create a beak and a large pinch at the bottom to create tail feathers. |
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Finally, have your child set the shape down on the table and press to flatten the bottom of the circle and create a sitting or swimming duck. |
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These are easy to make and children usually like to make a number of them. |
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You may want to let your children place these on a mirror laid flat, to simulate a pond of water. |
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DUCK MATH RHYME
Here is a counting rhyme for your children to figure out. The purpose of the game is to count the number of feet coming out of the eggs.
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One nest, one egg – how many feet walked away? |
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One nest, two eggs – how many feet walked away? |
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One nest, three eggs – how many feet walked away? |
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ADDITIONAL DUCK GAMES – Go to the Game Station and look for Duck Games under Spring Games.
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EGG GAMES – can also be found under Spring Games at the Game Station. |
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WHAT A BIT OF LUCK
What a bit of luck, I was born a duck.
I can go where ever I please,
I can fly above the trees.
I can swim across the pond.
I can waddle over the lawn.
What a bit of luck, I was born a duck.
Jean Warren
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DOWN BY THE LAKE
Here is a rhyme, your children may want to act out.
Down by the lake
What did I see?
A mother duck
And her babies, three.
Quack, said the mother.
Quack, quack, said the three.
And off they swam
Away from me.
Author Unknown
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DUCK STORIES
You can find three duck stories at the Story Station, under Spring Stories.
The Baby Ducklings
Mother Duck’s Pride
Over In The Meadow
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LIFE OF A DUCK
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Make sequence cards showing the life of a duck. |
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Egg, Duckling, Duck Swimming, Duck Flying. |
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DUCK NESTS
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Discuss with your children how ducks make their nests. |
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If you can see an actually duck nest, that would be great. However, if you are unable to do that, have your child look at pictures of ducks and their nest. |
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Have your child notice what the nests are made from. Such as, grass, twigs, leaves, mud, small bird fuzz (or feathers) |
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EGGS
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You may want to expand your Duck unit into a unit on animals that come from eggs. |
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Such as, snakes, birds, dinosaurs, reptiles, fish.
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PEAR DUCK SALAD
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Lay a piece of lettuce on a plate. |
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Then place half of a pear on top of the lettuce, outside up. |
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Then cut a piece of cheese into a triangle beak and place it on the side of the top of the pear. |
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And finally, cut out two large triangle cheese feet to make a pear duck salad.
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TEN LITTLE DUCKLINGS
Here is a movement rhyme that your children will enjoy acting out.
Little baby ducklings (Ducklings move back and forth in a waddling motion)
Dash, dash, dash! (Ducklings run in place)
Jump in the pond. (Ducklings make jumping motion)
Splash, splash, splash! (Ducklings use hands to make splashing motions)
When their mother ,
“Quack, quack, quacks.” (Mother duck quacks)
Little baby ducklings
Swam right back. (Ducklings make swimming motions)
Adapted Traditional
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THE LITTLE WHITE DUCK
Tune: “The Little White Duck”
There’s a little white duck,
Sitting in the water.
A little white duck,
Doing what he oughta!
He took a bite of a lily pad,
Flapped his wings and said, “I’m glad”.
I’m a little white duck,
Swimming in the water,
Quack, quack, quack!
Traditional
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OLD MAC DONALD HAD A FARM
Tune: “Old Mac Donald”
Old Mac Donald had a farm,
E,I,E,I,O.
And on this farm he had some ducks,
E,I,E,I, O.
With a quack, quack, here
And a quack, quack, there.
Here a quack, there a quack.
Everywhere a quack, quack.
Old Mac Donald had a farm
E,I,E,I,O.
Traditional
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DOWN AT THE POND
Tune: “Down At The Station”
Down at the pond
Early in the morning.
See the little ducklings
Swimming in a row.
See the mother duck
Dive for her breakfast.
Up, down, up, down
Watch her head go!
Down at the pond
Early in the morning.
See the little ducklings
Swimming in a row.
See the mother duck
Flap her wings just so.
Up she flys
Her ducklings in tow!
Jean Warren
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FIVE LITTLE DUCKS
Five little ducks, that I once knew,
Fat were three and skinny were two.
But the big mother duck with feathers on her back,
She ruled the ducklings with a quack, quack, quack.
Down to the water, they would go,
Waddle, waddle, waddle, to and fro.
But the big mother duck with feathers on her back,
She ruled the ducklings with a quack, quack, quack.
They swam around, here and there.
They bobbed for food, everywhere.
But the big mother duck with feathers on her back,
She ruled the ducklings with a quack, quack, quack.
Adapted Traditional
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