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need: |
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What
to do:
Cut out a section of an
egg carton for each child, to make a "Columbus-boat".
Cut out a small square paper sail for each boat.
Let the child write his/her name on one side of the sail and the names of the three caravels,
Niña, Pinta, and Santa
Maria, on the other.
Push a toothstick through the sail.
Put a small lump of playdough in the bottom of each boat and insert a
toothstick mast into each one.
The boats are ready for the game!
You may now explain (by
drawing or showing a picture) that Columbus' ships
actually had two large square sails (a foresail and a mainsail); there
was a smaller, triangular sail at the rear, called "lateen", and other
smaller sails.
How to play:
When each child has
prepared his/her little boat, then divide them into groups of three
children. The classroom or corridor is now the ocean and you can draw on the floor
two lines: on one side you have Spain/Europe, on the other America.
If you haven't got the egg cartons, the children may draw their ships and cut them out.
The children put their
boats on the line in Spain and on your "Ready, steady, GO!"
they begin to blow on their ships in order to "discover"
America.
The winner is
the one who first arrives to America. Give medals to all three children.
To elder children you can
also try to play the game on a large wall world-map which you put on the
floor, but oviously they have lesser space to move, but that can make the game different and funnier! |
