Materials
- Children as owls
- Flashlight
- Dark room
- Rainy day
What to do
1. Sit with the children in a quiet, dark room.
2. Take a flashlight and slowly bring out the light of the moon in the middle of the circle on the ceiling.
3. Talk about the moon's light at night and how animals need it. Name some animals that would see the moon at night.
4. Discuss what happens to us if someone shines a flashlight in our eyes. How do we see? How do we feel?
5. Tell children they will be owls coming out at night. They will slowly and quietly fly around the room. Take the flashlight and shine it on an owl.
6. Discuss which light helps animals the most, light from nature or light from people?
More to do
- Science: Name other animals the children could be. Then let them act out an animal at night in prey of another animal; freeze both with the light.
-Vera M. Peters, Elizabethon, TN
