For a fun winter activity, I picked up some die-cut patterns of footprints at my local teacher store. You can find die-cut shapes of feet as well as shoe foot prints. Since it's winter, I'm using the shoe foot prints (an outline of the bottom of shoes) -- it might be too cold to walk around barefoot. LOL You can also simplify the activity by using construction paper and having the children trace around their own shoes. This would give the activity more personality and individual ownership as each child proudly recognizes their own shoe outline. Allow the children to use different colors of construction paper to represent the shoe they are tracing.
After Peter finishing his breakfast, he puts on his snowsuit and goes outside. His feet sink into the snow. The story uses the words "crunch, crunch, crunch." Place the shoe prints on the board to create simply sol-mi-do patterns. Play a simple chord bordun on the BX as children sing the different shoe patterns. Each time Peter walks, have the children sing his footsteps. Change the location of the die-cut patterns to create different melody patterns.
Extension 1: Add another "crunch" to begin preparing re.
Extention 2: Add the folk song "Winter Weather" to the song. I like using this song since the first 2 verses include a sol-mi-re-do pattern. Have the children decide where they would like to sing the song as the story is told. Have them discuss different "winter" words to create new verses to the song.
Extension 3: Adapt the folk song "I Don't Care if the Rain Comes Down" to "I Don't Care if the Snow Comes Down." Use this as an opening or closing song selection to tell the story. While I have traditionally used this song selection in Spring, I have to thank Liza for posting a movement activity in her blog to this song as it prompted me to think of a new way to use the familiar song for winter. Be sure to check our Liza Meyer's Music Blog (a link is found on the left side of my home page) for the movement suggestions. Thanks Liza! :)
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