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Have your children run around and try to step on each other's shadows. Put several different shapes objects (triangle napkins, round coasters, etc) in a box and have your children tell you what shape these common objects are. Cut out several different shapes (square, triangle, circle, etc) and tell your children that each one represents a different exercise (jumping jacks, twist, jump up and down, run in place) and when you hold it up they should do that exercise. This is great fun Have each child take off one shoe. Then hide them in different places in the classroom. Let your children try to find the shoe. Can also do this as a matching game. Put all your children's shoes in a pile. Blindfold one child and have them feel around. Once they have picked a pair they have to guess whose shoes they are! Let your children experience the sense of feel with slime! It is simple to make simply add glue with cornstarch and stir well. You may have to add a bit of one of the ingredient to get the right consistency (to sticky add more cornstarch) but the children will love it. To keep it from getting to sticky store it in the refrigerator.

Alternatively you can make less sticky slime with cornstarch and water (add more cornstarch if its too thin, more water if its too thick)

A Third Alternative is to make it with one cup of water with one cup of white glue and two tablespoons of liquid tempera paint Play just like regular tag except the students must tag each other's shadows. Hang a sheet up in the middle of your room. Turn out all the lights. Remove several children and have one of them stand in front of a flashlight, or overhead projector. Have the other children guess whose shadow is on the sheet. Let your children trace each others shadow's with sidewalk chalk. Put shapes on construction paper and attach them to the floor so that they can not move. Pull shapes out of a bucket and have your children put their foot, their hand, etc on it. Tape Different shapes onto the floor. Have your children step from shape to shape as you play music plays. When the music stops have the children stop and yell out what shape they are standing on. Put a different shape in each corner of your classroom (square, circle, rectangle, triangle). Separate your children in four equal groups (have each group stand in a different corner) Have one child hide his eyes and then randomly choose a shape. The student in that shape corner are out of this round of the game. Divide your children equally amongst the corners again. Choose one child that has been eliminated and have them call out a shape. Continue this until only one child remains. This really gets your children to know their shapes. Draw different shapes on cardboard cards (for older children make the shapes different sizes and colors). Have your children try to match the cards by shape or color. Divide a piece of poster board into eight sections (heart, square, circle, triangle, diamond, rectangle, oval, star). Have your children throw a beanbag at the poster board. Have them tell you what shape the beanbag landed on. Have your children say "I spy with my little eye a (shape)" Then have your children guess what item in your classroom that they spy. Put different shapes into a bag. Blindfold your children and have them reach into the bag and pull out a shape. Have them guess what shape they have pulled out. Cut out two of several different shapes. Paste one to a manila folder and leave one loose (or put them in envelopes) Let your children try to match the shapes. Play shape bingo with your children! Make a bingo card with different shapes on it. Next make shape markers. Have your children cover the shape you call out with the corresponding shape marker. Have your children sit in a circle, have one child run around the circle and sing the song:

Lost my (shape) what do I do?
Lost my (shape). What so I do?
Lost my (shape). What do I do?
Skip to my Lou my darling

Have Different shapes in the center of the circle and have the child that was running around find the shape. Used square gift boxes to make shape dice. Give your children squirt bottles filled with colored water and let them color the snow. When it snows, take your old markers outside and let the children color the snow Make several snowmen from something sturdy. Attach these to two liter bottles. Mark off were the 'pins' should sit and let your children bowl away. Bring snow in from outside and let your children build a snowman.
Just like 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey.' Put all your children's shoes in a pile. Then have half your class stand on one side of the pile and the other half on the other. When you say go the first one to get their shoes on and stand up wins. Cut out (or have your children cut them out) pictures of as many different kinds of shoes as you can find. Then ask your children who would wear each one Have an indoor snowball fight using rolled up paper or socks or large marshmallows or cotton or balled up newspaper or balled up toilet paper Build a snow man by moistening packing peanuts and sticking together When your ready to melt it simply put it out in the rain or turn the hose on it. Fill up a white balloon with water and freeze the balloon. The next day, the children can play hot potatoe/or cold snowball to the song Snowball

Snowball (Sung To: "Are You Sleeping, Brother John")
Make a snowball, make a snowball.
Throw it now, throw it now.
Make a snowball, make a snowball.
Throw it now, throw it now.

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