If you like, they can color the bear and his house when they are finished. In advance, type up a brief explanation of this activity so that the parents can understand what it entails. Adaptable for older children, who can play as a game of charades. A bag of animal cookies. Teachers provide a bag of animal cookies and invite the children to take turns pulling a cookie out of the bag.
Younger children can act out the noise the animal makes or movements that animal does.
The other children get to guess what animal they have. Older children that understand charades can act out the animal any way they need to. Children 8 and up can make it as a game of pictionary, using a board or paper. Teachers choose one child to pick out an animal cracker, so no one can see which one is picked. The child turns away from the others and eats the cracker.