Edible Bracelet
Teaching color patterns with cereal and finger dexterity
Instructions
- You will need a long pipe cleaner and round fruit-flavored colored cereal (Fruit Loops, Cheerios, etc.)
- Encourage the child to string the cereal onto the pipe cleaner
- Together count 4 purple cereal pieces and add to a pipe cleaner
- Together count 8 yellow cereal pieces and add to a pipe cleaner
- They can make up a pattern - blue, purple, green, orange and repeat until pipe cleaner is full
- Wear pipe cleaner bracelet on wrist and child can have a snack anytime
Simplify
If manipulating the pipe cleaner is difficult, place one of the ends of the pipe cleaner into a ball of play dough or into the bottom of a styrofoam cup turned upside down.
Extend
Make a pattern of cereal pieces on a separate pipe cleaner and see if the child can duplicate the pattern.
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
Would this bracelet make a nice gift for a friend? Why or why not?
Where does cereal come from?
Materials
- pipe cleaner (click here)
- round fruit-flavored (colored) cereal with holes (click here)
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Curriculum Plan Resources
Skills Focus
- Shape - Circle
- Color - Blue
- Number - Two, 2
- Alphabet Letters - B, F
- Senses - Hearing
- Character Trait - Joyfulness
- Target Words - Big, Bigger, Happy, Small
Monthly Proverb
Unknown “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day."
Did You Know?
“A 3-year-old toddler's brain is twice as active as an adult's brain.”- Sean Brotherson, NDSU
Books to Read
"Color Dance"
by Ann Jonas (Activity 8)
"The Grouchy Ladybug"
Eric Carle (Activity 12)
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"
by Bill Martin and John Archambault (Activity 4)
"Color Dance" VIDEO
by Ann Jonas (Activity 8)
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" VIDEO
by Bill Martin and John Archambault (Activity 4)
"The Grouchy Ladybug" VIDEO
by Eric Carle (Activity 12)
Music Playlist
"Jump Up It’s A Good Day"
by Brady Rymer Album Here Comes Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could (Children) (Activity 10)
"Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes "
by Countdown Kids Album 100 Silly Songs (Children) (Activity 24)
"Joyfulness"
by Nabil David Huening Album Children’s Virtues Songs (Children) (Activity 13)
"If You’re Happy and You Know It "
by Dora the Explorer Album Party Favorites (Activity 26)
"Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" VIDEO
by Super Simple Songs (Activity 24)
"If You're Happy and You Know It" VIDEO
by Super Simple Songs (Activity 26)
"Joyfulness" VIDEO
by Nabil David Huening (Activity 13)
"Jump Up It's A Good Day" VIDEO
by Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could (Activity 10)
Monthly Materials List
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Fingerplay / Poems / Songs
Touch Your Nose
(Activity 25 Month 2)
Touch your nose, touch your chin, That’s the way this game begins.
Touch your eyes, Touch your knees; Now pretend you’re going to sneeze.
Touch your hair, Touch one ear; Touch your two red lips right here.
Touch your elbows where they bend,
That’s the way this touch game ends.