Observe which children clap or cheer for another child. Encourage the children to join in and cheer and clap for their friends. It works really well with activities other than the suggested. Kentucky Derby Horses Jill G. shares an activity that enhances creative art, language skills and the finished stick horses can be used outdoors for relay races. Yard sticks stapler, markers, construction paper, glue, newspapers, yarn.
Teachers draw a basic horses head.
Then children cut it out and draw the face. Glue on yarn for the mane and then stuff them with newspapers and staple them to the yardstick. Children now have their own stick horse. Many companies have donated yardsticks. In which preschool children purchase food needed to cook vegetable soup.