Wild Things
6-8's and 9-12's
1. Craft: Wild Things (continued from week five)
Materials:
• Roll of mural paper
• Yarn
• Feathers
• Crepe paper, construction paper, wrapping paper
• Aluminum (tin) foil,
• Fabric
• Markers, crayons, coloured pencils, glue
• Sparkles and anything you have to add to the large cut out wild things
• Scissors
Instructions
1. Before the session cut off 1.1 and 1.3 meter sections of paper from the large roll thinking about the height of your participants.
2. Each child needs a giant piece of paper as tall as they are. Working in pairs children will trace around each other on the paper. Think about what position you would like your wild thing to be in (e.g., running, waving, flying etc.) Each child will then make the outline into a wild picture of themselves.
3. Draw on crazy hair or fangs or big ears and feet similar to Sendak’s illustrations. Let imaginations run wild. Make the pictures come alive with glued on wool for hair or a feather headdress, a tin foil sword or belt. When finished, they can cut it out.
4. This will be a messy project that will take some time. Can be done over two weeks by doing planning, tracing, colouring and cutting one week and all glue activities the second week.
Note: Finishing this craft may take up the whole of the hour, depending on how detailed the kids want to be.
2. Game: Pin the Nose on the Wild Thing
Materials:
• Blindfold
• Pompom
• Masking tape
• Sticky tack
Instructions:
Hang the cut out wild things on the wall – as low as they can go, so that the childr
en can still reach up to the face of their wild thing. Then, have the children pick out a pompom for a nose, and fold up a piece of masking tape to stick to one side of it. Blind fold the children one at a time in front of their wild thing, and spin them a couple of times. Then see if they can pin the pompom nose to the nose of their Wild Thing.
3. Activity: Wild Rumpus Musical Chairs
Materials:
• Chairs
• CD player or radio
• noise makers (popcorn seeds in empty pop cans work well)
Instructions:
Count how many children you have, and get one fewer chairs than you have children. Set the chairs up, back to back – if you have an even number of chairs, you can put one on each end of the line of chairs as well. Tell the kids that they are going to have a Wild Rumpus, and give each one of them a noise maker. When you play the music, they can walk around the chairs and make as much noise as they like – you may have to have the music playing fairly loud. When the music stops, though, each child must rush to find a chair. The child left standing is out. Remove one more chair, and start again.
4. Book: “Where the Wild Things Are”
All ages can enjoy this story. It’s a classic.
