Here are some fun activities and crafts for you to incorporate into your ovals lesson plan.
Snack for Preschool Lesson Plan: Oval
– sugar cookies cut into ovals
Art Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Oval
Humpty Dumpty: Have your preschool students cut out a large oval from white construction paper. Also, have them cut out two ovals for eyes and one oval for a nose. Instruct your students to glue the eyes and nose onto the large oval. Now let your students draw mouths with red markers. Give each student four long oval shapes that you have cut out. Let them fold these ovals over and over in order to construct springy arms and legs. Have them glue the springy arms and legs to the large oval. Ta da! It’s Humpty Dumpty!
Inside the egg picture: Have your students cut out a large oval from white construction paper. Set out crayons and let them draw whatever they wish to be inside of their oval egg.
Bean oval: Have each of your students cut out an oval shape. Let them glue oval shaped dried beans to the cut out.
Song/Finger Play for Preschool Lesson Plan: Oval
Here is an original children’s song for your square theme. I release it into the public domain, so use it freely. It is sung to the tune of Ten Little Indians.
Little Ovals
One little, two little, three little ovals,
Four little, five little, six little ovals,
Seven little, eight little, nine little ovals,
Ten little ovals look like eggs! (draw an oval in the air with your forefinger)
Other Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Oval
Sensory table: Fill your sensory table with oval shaped dried beans and plastic Easter eggs that open and shut. Let your students have fun filling the oval eggs with beans and then pouring the beans out.
What’s in the egg?: Play this game with your students at circle time. Let your students see a collection of small objects such as pennies, kernels of corn and small toys. Put the items in plastic Easter eggs of the same color. Mix the eggs up. Let your students, one by one, choose an egg, shake it and guess which item is inside.
Counting: Use ovals to help your preschool students learn to count. Cut out several ovals of any color from felt. Have your students roll dice, then place then count out the number of ovals that they rolled on the dice, placing them on the flannel board as they count. You may opt to make the ovals from laminated construction paper and use them on a table or carpet instead.
