Here are some activities all about

“Hospitals“

Set up a hospital scene in a corner of a room in your home. Playing doctors or nurses and patients can extend children’s vocabulary and also be a good way for them to play through any of their experiences of doctors and make sense of them

You will need:

• A doctor’s/nurse’s outfit
• A bear/doll or two and dolly’s bed, blankets and pillow
• A toy doctor’s bag with stethoscope etc (you could make some pretend ones)
• Some bandages and other harmless items from your first aid kit, protective gloves, mask, apron etc
• You could make some hospital signs to help it to look real!
• A prescription pad or similar and pencil

Let the children have free play with the hospital then:-

Number Activity.

Size and counting to 3, 5 or 8 (you will need big sheets of paper for drawing on)

We need to make the big toys and dolls better first so let’s see if you can put them in order with the big ones first.  How many toys are there? I have 4 bears here. The biggest one is in the blue suit. The orange one is next. The 2 little ones are about the same size as each other.

Can you draw your toys or dolls or my bears in a row with the biggest first?

Can you count how many hand paws they have altogether?

What about their foot pads?

I Can draw my toys and bears. I can draw them order from the big to the little one. I can count to 4 while pointing to them. I can draw their hand paws and I can also draw their feet. Choose the colours for their clothes. Which colours have you used?

Mummy or daddy can write on my drawing (letters about 1 inch high initially)

the bears or my dolls

I Can count 1 bear, 2 bears, 3 bears  4 bears while pointing to them. 

I Can count their hand paws and their foot pads

I Can show you the biggest and the smallest

I Can show you red, orange and blue things and some other colours too. How many colours can you show me?

Creative Activity with shape and colour

Let’s make an Ambulance

You will need

• a cardboard box
• felt pens, crayons or paint

Make your ambulance. Together draw 4 wheels on the box. Talk about the wheels being round. Draw square windows and talk about a square. Can you draw a triangle? What about a rectangle?

 

Does your ambulance look like this?

I bet you can’t take a photo of it!

Now you can make a road to the hospital and get your patients there quickly. 

I Can make an ambulance

I Can take a photo of it

If mummy or daddy shows you how you can send your photo to grandma or grandad. Did they get it? Clever old you !

Shape dolly

Can you draw a doll made from shapes?

I’ve done one. Look! 

Can you find the circle? The square? The rectangles? The triangles? 

Can you made a different dolls with different shapes?

I Can make a shape dolly

I Can count the circles., the squares, the rectangles and the triangles

I Can make different dolls with different shapes. 

Creative activity with size and number

Big hand, small hand

When you have made your hands with cotton buds, have a look at them. Who has the big hand? Who has the little hand? How many thumbs are there? How many fingers? Hold your hands up. Can you count your fingers and thumbs?

Can you take a photo? 

I Can make a big hand and a little hand

I Can count the fingers and thumbs

I Can take a photo of them

Read “Topsy and Tim Go to the Doctor” Jean and Gareth Adamson . If you don’t have the book, here it is. (9 minutes)

 

Talk about the story and how to stay healthy.

• Exercise every day
• Sleep well every night
• We need to eat good food

Lunch time!  So what can we eat to make us stay healthy? A good guide is to have several colours of food on your plate. Let’s make some lunch. You choose what you like to eat. Here are some ideas:

 

I Can help make my lunch and eat it with mummy and daddy

After lunch let’s make a game. Choose some photos or draw some pictures of your dollies. Here is my game. Cut out some doll/bear/toy images and make up your own rules! The winner wins something of their choice!!

I Can make my own game and play it with my family

Today’s Song – Miss Polly had a dolly 

The tune is on the video below

Miss Polly Had a Dolly

• Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick.
• So she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick.
• The doctor came with his bag and his hat,
• And he knocked on the door, with a rat-a-tat-tat.
• He looked at the dolly and he shook his head,
• And he said,“Miss Polly put her straight to bed.”
• He wrote on a paper for a pill, pill, pill.
• That would make it better yes it will, will, will.

 Sing the song and do the actions

I Can sing it on my own

Time for some exercise. Now we can go for a walk and collect some twigs and leaves. Let’s make sure you can put your own coat on without help, and your hat, scarf and gloves. When we come home and you’ve hung your coat up on the hook, look what we can make together!

I Can make a family of dollies of different sizes

 What can I do now?

I Can  draw my dolls in order from the big to the little one. 

I Can count to 4 while pointing to them.

I Can draw their hand paws and I can also draw their feet.

I Can show you 6 different colours

I Can make an Ambulance

I Can take a photo of it

I Can make a shape dolly

I Can count the circles., the squares, the rectangles and the triangles

I Can make different dolls with different shapes. 

I Can help make my lunch and eat it with mummy and daddy

I Can make my own game and play it with my family

I Can sing on my own

I can put my own coat on and later take it off and hang it up

I Can make a family of leaves or twigs of different sizes into different sized dollies

WOW! I can do so many things!

I can do some again if I’m not sure.

You can do an “I Can” chart if you like! Enjoy your special time!