My little 3-year-old has been singing this song around the house for the past month, so I decided we needed a Baa Baa Black Sheep day during B week.
- Opening Song & Prayer … we sing a Primary song, then say a prayer to start preschool
- Build letter B … we tried out our new letter construction set to build uppercase and lowercase Bs this week! What I love:
- There are enough pieces for 4 kids to build the same letter at one time. Love that we can build upper or lowercase letters with simple direction cards.
- The pieces are sturdy and colorful.
- The kids can easily snap the pieces together.
- I love the large size.
- Read “Baa Baa Black Sheep” … there are several different versions. Check your library!
- Alphabet Tiles … we used the ones found here.
- Display a large copy of Baa Baa Black Sheep. I simply enlarged the nursery rhyme pages I love here.
- Tape it to a magnetic surface. I used a cookie sheet. The fridge would work too.
- Give the kids the B tiles and have them cover the letter Bs … upper and lowercase. You could also use regular letter magnets!
- And then, of course, they want to match every other letter they can. Yay!
- Preschool Journals
- Practice writing letter B and ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’.
- Stick black sheep stickers to page.
- NOTE: I couldn’t find any black sheep stickers, so I printed out this clipart on sticker paper.
- Play ‘3 Bags Full’ Game … inspired by a great activity from Princess & the Tot
- Label three paper bags 1, 2, 3
- Place 1, 2, or 3 stickers on several cards. I had my preschooler help me with this the day before.
- Have the kids choose a card, count the stickers, and place it in the matching bag … until you have ‘3 Bags Full’!
- OPTIONAL: my kids were ready to wiggle by now, so we set this up as a running game. They picked a card at one end of the room, then ran to the other end to put it in the right bag.
- Black Sheep Rubbings
- Print the sheep page above. Just click the image.
- Tell the kids you have a problem. You have a sheet full of white sheep, but you need help turning them into black sheep!
- Unwrap a black crayon (breaking it in half may be easier to handle)
- Show the kids how to find different textures around the house and how to rub their crayon (on it’s side) to make the sheep turn into black textured sheep!
- See how many different textures you can find!
- NOTE: my 3-year-old enjoyed this for a little while. My 4-year-old ended up doing four pages he loved it so much!
- Musical Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Teach the kids how to play Baa Baa Black Sheep on the Music Maker or piano.
- Print simple piano sheet music here! I labeled our piano keys and wrote the letters above the notes on the sheet music. It’s a little slow-going, but the kids love matching the letters and making a song they know!
- NOTE: the Music Maker we have is pretty fun. The kids can play songs if they follow the little notes. Even if they don’t, they love making music on it. I love that they can just be creative and enjoy music. Baa Baa Black Sheep is one of the songs that came with ours.
- Baa Baa Black Sheep Cookies … every Monday night is Family Home Evening. These no-bake baa baa black sheep cookies were a hit and the kids had fun helping to make them! I love the crazy legs the best
Baa Baa Black Sheep Cookies |