During the month of October, Cheryl and I like to read the book There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. This book is always a hit with our preschoolers because we have a song and a puppet to go along with it. With the puppet, the kids can take listen to what the old lady will eat next and find the matching item and feed it to the old lady. Some kids are very excited to put something in the old lady's mouth, others...not so much. But they enjoy watching, just the same! This is what she looks like.
This is a great activity to have the kiddos work on listening for vocabulary and naming vocabulary.
As an expansion activity, we decided that we could make our own Old Lady and feed her anything we wanted. So we made a huge Old Lady and hung her on the wall. Each child chose an object or animal to feed the Old Lady. Then they had to use their describing words to describe the item they were feeding her. We had some really great and yucky things to feed the Old Lady such as a black, beautiful spider; brown, big cow; a bowl of hot, orange soup. The list went on and on. Our Old Lady looked like this.
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