Our children just love story book games! Â We read a story during circle time and then often follow it up with some sort of learning activity or game. Â We’ve played several different variations of this particular game and it is one that they never get tired of…
The story book that inspired this game was “Little Hoot” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal…
If you aren’t familiar with this author, she is well known for writing children’s books with an ironic twist. Â In “Little Hoot” for example, a young owl just wants to go to bed at a reasonable time, but instead his mother and father insist that he stay up late to play like other little owls. Â When morning finally comes, he couldn’t be happier to fall into nest and go to sleep…
Children just love these books because they are so silly. Â Grown-ups love them because they are such sweet stories. Â As an added bonus, they are really easy to incorporate into classroom fun and games! Â The game we created is called, “Whoooo’s Missing?” Â This game is similar to “Doggy, doggy where’s your bone?” but rather than hiding a bone, we are hiding a classmate…
While one child leaves the circle to hide their eyes…
Another child curls up into a ball and gets covered with a blanket. Â Then all the children left in the circle yell, “Whooooo’s missing?”
That is the cue for the guesser to return to the circle to try to determine who is under the blanket…
This game is good test of memory. Â It took some of the children a few tries to figure out who was under the blanket, but when they did there was always a lot of laughter and excitement…
To keep the game somewhat organized, we always had the child hiding under the blanket take their turn as the guesser next. Â And in case you are wondering, all of our children happily went under the blanket. Â If they didn’t want to join in, we certainly wouldn’t have made them. Â This was such a fun game that they were all eager to participate…
There are so many different ways to play this kind of game and our children love them all!
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