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TEDDY BEAR COLLAGES (Art)
Using a teddy bear cookie cutter as a guide, cut bear shapes out of a variety of materials such as construction paper, giftwrap paper, wallpaper, sandpaper, brown grocery bags, felt, fabric scraps, and fake fur. Give each of your children a large piece of heavy paper to use as a background, along with a small container of glue and a brush. Then invite the children to choose the bear shapes they want and glue them onto their backgrounds any way they wish to create collages.
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TEDDY BEAR PUPPETS (Art)
Give each of your children a teddy bear shape cut from brown posterboard. Set out short lengths of brown yarn, and help the children snip them into tiny pieces. Then invite them to brush glue onto their bear shapes and sprinkle the yarn pieces all over the glue for fur. When the glue has dried, turn each bear shape into a puppet by stapling a craft stick onto the back for a handle. Encourage the children to use their puppets to act out bear rhymes, stories, and songs.
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TEDDY BEAR STICKER BOOKS (Pre-Reading)
For book pages for each of your children, make photocopies of five large magazine pictures or pictures from monthly calendars. Give each child five identical teddy bear stickers and help the child affix one sticker to each of his or her book pages. Staple each child’s pages together with a construction paper cover titled “My Bear Book,” and add the child’s name. Then invite the children to “read” their books to you.
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ONE LITTLE TEDDY BEAR (Language/Math)
Each time you read the following rhyme, invite five children to act it out by holding up their Teddy Bear Puppets, above, one by one. Or have them pretend to be teddy bears and act out the rhyme.
One little teddy bear smiling for you,
Here comes another bear, and that makes two.
Two little teddy bears just for you and me,
Here comes another bear, and that makes three.
Three little teddy bears sitting on the floor,
Here comes another bear, and that makes four.
Four little teddy bears looking so alive,
Here comes another bear, and that makes five.
Five little teddy bears all in a row,
Watch them dance and twirl around as off they go!
Liz Ryerson
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TEDDY BEAR FUN (Language/Movement/Dramatic Play)
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Invite your children to bring in their teddy bears to introduce to the group. Ask them to tell about games they play with their bears. (Have extra teddies on hand for children who might need them.) |
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Play music, such as “Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” and encourage the children to dance with their teddies. |
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Recite this silly rhyme: “Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy-Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy-Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?” |
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Have a Teddy Bear Tea Party. Serve herbal tea and teddy bear cookies.
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REAL BEAR FUN (Science/Matching/Art)
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Talk about real bears. Show pictures of brown bears, black bears and polar bears. Discuss where they live, what they eat, and what their habits are. |
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Set out pictures of adult and baby brown, black, and polar bears. Have the children match the babies with their parents. |
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Visit a zoo to see the bears. Or show an appropriate bear video. |
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For an art activity, for each child turn a paper cup upside down and cut a cave-like opening out of one side. For a brown bear cave, have the child paint the cup brown and glue a brown pompom inside the cup for a bear. For a polar bear snow cave, let the child paint the cup white and glue a cotton ball “bear” inside. Display the children’s artwork on appropriate backgrounds. |
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TEDDY BEAR, TEDDY BEAR (Music/Movement)
Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, reach up high,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the sky.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, bend down low,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch your toe.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn round now,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, take a bow.
Traditional Submitted by Heather McPhail
Have your children act out the song as you sing.
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TEDDY BEAR SNACKS (Food Preparation)
Use a teddy bear cookie cutter to cut bear shapes out of pieces of toast. Butter the shapes. Then invite your children to sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar on the shapes to make cinnamon-toast bears.
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