BOOK OF THE WEEK – FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS

Activity Guide Sheet: Touch & Feel mystery

Supplies needed

□Tissue box or cloth bag – something that will hold each item without revealing what it is

□Variety of textured materials – consider using items that have textures from the book!

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BOOK OF THE WEEK – FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS

  • Cotton balls, feathers (fuzzy)
  • Pinecone, crumpled tinfoil (bumpy)
  • Cotton ball (furry)
  • Sandpaper (scaly)
  • Wool (wooly)
  • Sandpaper (scratchy)
  • Plastic tile, fabric (scaly)
  • Contact paper, clean band-aid (sticky)
  • Other ideas:
  • Mirror
  • Quarter or nickel
  • Button

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BOOK OF THE WEEK – FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS

Steps
  1. Place an item in the container (if you have a container for each item, do this for all of them)
  2. Give each child a turn to put their hand in the container and spend time feeling the item
  3. Invite each child to describe what they are feeling to the group
  4. Ask children to guess what the item is and/or guess which animal from Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings it feels like
  5. Replace the item with a new one and start again!
Introducing the Activity
  • Sing a song. “Pass the color”
  • Revisit the book. Remind children of Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings and ask about their favorite parts. Does anyone have a favorite texture?
  • Introduce the activity.Keep the materials you have a mystery, but invite children to walk around the room looking for other items that feel fuzzy, bumpy, scratchy, etc. Let them know you have some other items with those textures and that this activity will be a fun guessing game!

Activity Guide Sheet: touch & feel mystery

ideas for incorporatng:
  • Extended talk. Describe your actions and encourage children to describe their own.
  • I’m going to pass around the box so everyone has a turn. Can you pass it to your neighbor?
  • Jordan is thinking very carefully about what this bumpy item might be. What is your guess?
  • Skill development.
  • Colors and textures: Encourage children to describe the texture and color of each item
  • Shapes and sizes: Roundcotton ball; squarebox; smallbutton; big pinecone
  • Numbers:Make a game out of putting all of the items in a box one by one, counting as you go
  • Relationships: The items go inside the box and then we can take them out
  • Free play. Allow children to put the items in the mystery box and take them back out. If you have multiple boxes, this makes for a fun game!
  • All ages. Older children will be able to describe the mystery items and guess more easily than younger children, who will enjoy just feeling the items, putting them into the box and taking them back out.
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