Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Summer vs. Winter Olympics Activity (And the Easiest Gold Medals EVER)

While looking at the book G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet, I was explaining the difference between the summer and winter Olympics to my preschooler.  We were deciding which events in the book took place at the winter or summer Olympics.  To make it more fun, we did a movement activity. 

I set up a summer area and a winter area. 
As we went through the book again, I'd point at an athlete participating in an event, and my kids would tell me if it was winter or summer, run to the appropriate area and pantomime playing the sport. 
Here they are under the "snow" pretending to play hockey, which I guess actually does look an awful lot like fighting.
They did so well that they earned chocolate coins taped to strings gold medals!

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3 comments:

  1. What a fun game. I was just thinking about how when we were growing up the Olympics were all in one year, making the difference between summer and winter noticeable. Thanks for linking up to The Sunday Showcase.

    ^Does that all make sense? I need to get to bed...LOL

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  2. Great idea! I would love to have you link this up to my linky party! http://domesticrandomness.blogspot.com/2012/08/friday-fascinations-2-olympics-linky.html

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