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Age Range: 3-5
Skills/Subjects:
Related Episode:
Double Tibble Trouble
Related Books:
Paper Airplanes by Nick Robinson
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What Flies?
Analyze air traffic
Materials
- paper
- pictures of things or animals that fly
- small flying toys
Directions
Work with your children to explore and categorize things that fly.
- Brainstorm: Ask your children to name as many flying objects or animals as they can: plane, bubble, kite, balloon, bird, etc. Write their suggestions on paper.
- Discuss: Talk about different qualities of flying. Ask: What zooms or floats? Flutters or soars? Invite your children to show you how to zoom, soar, and flutter.
- Categorize: Have your children categorize the things on your brainstorm list. Suggest some categories to get them started: size, speed, animal or machine. Let them classify the items and explain the reasons for their groupings. How many different ways are there to group the items? If you can, use small representative toys or pictures to enrich the discussion.
Take It Further
Children can fly pre-made paper airplanes (see Paper Airplanes by Nick Robinson for ideas), and measure how far they flew.
With a Group
Tape a large piece of paper to the wall or floor, and sketch (or cut and paste from magazines) a few mountain peaks or building tops along the very bottom, leaving most of the paper blank. Let the children make a mural by filling the blank paper (the sky) with drawings of all the flying objects or animals they can think of.
Based on an activity in Play and Learn with Arthur, Volume 2
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