Leader Guide
Optional Opening Game
- Travel Card Page (provided)
- Cardstock—one sheet
- Scissors
- Optional: painter's tape or masking tape
Make a mark or taped line near one end of the room.
Make another mark or tape line about 15–20 feet from the first line or mark.
Make one copy of the Travel Card Page.
Cut apart the ten individual cards and stack them face down.
Have the children stand behind one line.
Ask the children to raise their hands and tell you different ways you could travel to the other line or mark. Children respond (Hop, run, skip, walk backward, tiptoe, etc.).
Optional: for each different answer, have that child demonstrate the movement.
Have a child pick a card from the stack. Read the card.
Have 1–2 children at a time travel to the other line according to that card. Note: if necessary, demonstrate a duck waddle, shuffle, etc.
Continue in this fashion for each card. Shuffle the cards and play again if time allows.
Optional: All children travel for each card, one or two at a time.
Conclusion: Which way was your favorite to travel? Children respond.
Even though you traveled in different ways, you all made it, didn’t you? It didn’t matter whether you hopped, waddled, or skipped!