Bb is for Bears

Fuzzy bears, floppy bears, cuddly bears too.

Big bears, small bears and bears at the zoo!

Crafts

Activites

Songs & Poems

Outings

Food

Crafts:

1. Eric Carle Style Bears:  This one is great for little one's.

2. "Paw Prints":  Hand prints

4. Pattern Stamping: I used a plastic bear figurine and a paw print stamp.  You can also make your own stamps out of fun foam and a block/piece of wood.

5. Coffee & Cinnamon Bears

6. Hungry Bear Collage: Cut out different types of foods that bears like to eat from your weekly grocery store flyers and glue them to a piece of paper to make a lovely collage.

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Activities:

Cognitive Development:

• Sort them in to size/colour/texture/type (polar, brown, black)
• Line them up from biggest to smallest. Talk about 1st, 2nd , 3rd etc. Small, smaller, smallest, big, bigger, biggest, medium
• See if you can make a pattern: big/small, fuzzy/smooth
• Count them, forwards and backwards

Letter Recognition:

• Go for a letter walk and find the letter Bb!  Look on signs, vehicles, stores.
• Alphabet Soup: Put some magnet letters in a pot and let your child pick one out. Practice the name and the sound
• Find Bb's everywhere!  Look in books, magazines, computer/tablets, food packaging
• Practice printing the letter Bb in the air, in a tray of rice/sand, on paper, with paint
• Have a letter-rific snack:  Munch on some Alphabets cereal or alphabet soup, see what letters you find.

Number Recognition and Sequencing:

• Honey Pot Number Matching: See Printouts
• Gummy Bear or Teddy Graham Counting:  Count from 0-10/20 and back again as you eat them.
• Paw Print Counting: Click here for printout

Set up centers using some of the listed activities and crafts.

Bb bears Printouts

Games:

Large Motor:

• Going on a Bear Hunt #1: Gather up some bears, have your child close there eyes and count to ten while you hide the bears around the room.  Then go find them!  Great on a rainy day.
• Going on a Bear Hunt #2: Hide & Seek:  Have the person who is it pretend to be the Mama bear looking for her cubs.
• Paw Print Hopscotch:  Just like regular hopscotch but make the spaces in the shape of paw print.  Have your child pretend to be the baby bear following Mama bear.
• Let's Be Bears!:  Think of all the ways that bears move and see if you can do it too.  Bears can climb, run, jump, roll, swim, scoop fish, dig a den, lay in the sunshine, jump, stand up and be scary, curl up and go to sleep.

Fine Motor:

• Stacking Bears:  Using some bear figurines see how many you can stack before they fall over.
• Play dough Bears:  Use brown, black and or white play dough to make some bears.
• Sticker Pictures:  Find some bear stickers and make a picture or pattern.
• Colouring: See if you can draw a bear, or find some bear colouring pages.
• Cereal Bb's:  Print B b on a piece of paper or cardboard.  Have your child place cereal (oat circles) along the lines to form the letter Bb.  Then eat them!

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Songs & Poems:

See The Sleeping Grizzly Bear (Tune: Sleeping Bunnies)

Hibernation Song (Tune:  Are You Sleeping?)

T-E-D-D-Y(Tune: B-I-N-G-O)

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Outings:

Library: Favourite Books

Teddy Bear's Picnic:  Grab a blanket and your teddies and head to your local park, forest, beach, backyard and have a picnic!  Bring some bear themed snacks such as berries, teddy graham crackers, honey or Bear Paws and some beary good books!

Food:

Bears are omnivores, which means they will eat anything.  Try some of their favourite foods.

• berries
• nuts
• seeds
• fish
• apples
• honey

Have a picky eater?  Try having them pretend they are a bear…bears eat anything!

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