Materials
Book of Mother Goose Rhymes Shawl
Basket One candle in a candleholder
Hard-boiled eggs Brick or cardboard block
Spider puppet
Instructions
1. Jump-start those old nursery rhymes and explore the science of it all. Make it interesting and fun by starting the role-playing yourself.
2. Dress as old Mother Goose. Make use of a shawl, perhaps a hat, granny glasses, a stuffed goose. In your basket, have the props to bring your rhymes to life.
3. For Jack Be Nimble, jump over the candlestick really! Then measure how tall the candle is.Then jump next to, behind or in front of the candlestick.Jack be nimbleJack be quickJack jump over the candlestick4. You can have Humpty Dumpty acted out by a leader or by all the children. Balance your hard-boiled egg on a real or cardboard brick wall. When Humpty falls, what happens? Can he be put back together?5. For Little Miss Muffet, choose a Miss Muffet and use a puppet spider. Use the poem as a start for a study of spiders.Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffetEating her curds and wheyAlong came a spiderAnd sat down beside her,And frightened Miss Muffet away.More to doDramatic play: Put the props in the dramatic play center so the children can role play Mother Goose rhymes.
