Games for Kids Age Level: 3‐5 Language Level: All Levels Competency: Animal Yoga Poses Naming Foods
“Animal Dinner Party” Facilitator Instructions: ① Begin by reviewing the necessary yoga poses with the children from your stack of yoga cards (e.g. the snake, the kangaroo, the elephant, etc. ) ② Explain, “today we are going to write a story together, that involves a whole bunch of animals, and a whole bunch of yummy food!” ③ Begin by saying “once upon a time there lived a…”
Materials:
✐ Animal yoga cards ✐ Food cards ✐ Yoga mats
Sample Story:
Once upon a time there lived an animal. He/she loved to plan beautiful dinner parties for all of his/her friends. Who do you think he/she will invite this year? Well let’s see. He/she decided to invite the animal, the animal and the animal. Whatever will they eat? It’s hard to say. It changes every time. Sometimes they eat food or food or food. One time they even ate food. But this time, this very special time they are going to eat food. Yummy!
④ Walk around the room and choose a child who is listening to choose the animal card from the stack. ⑤ Help all of the children to do the appropriate pose. ⑥ Continue the story stopping when you come to animal references and food references to draw cards.