Help your preschoolers develop their imagination and motor coordination by imitating God's creatures during your Rainforest (or Wildwood Forest) VBS this summer:
- Gorilla or Chimpanzee: Scratch your sides as you bend your knees, jump or walk, and make appropriate noises.
- Flamingo: Stand straight and lift one foot, raising the foot as high as you can. Spread your arms as wings, and then tuck them in close to your body.
- Wildcat: Arch your back, reaching down to the floor with your hands. Then scratch the air with your claws and leap around the room.
- Elephant: Hold your hands together, bend at the waist, and extend your arms down to the floor, swinging your arms back and forth as your trunk. Take large steps.
- Bird: Flap your arms as wings while running around the room.
- Alligator: Hold your palms together, arms stretched out in front of you, and move your arms apart then together, pretending they're an alligator's mouth.
- Snake: Wiggle on the ground on your tummy then curl up, next uncurl and stretch out, finally slither along the ground.
- Bear: Start on all fours, growl, then straighten up on two feet, pretend your hands are paws, and claw the air as you growl once more.
- Frog: Squat down with your hands touching the ground. Leap up quickly, then return to a squat as you hop around the room. Catch a fly for lunch by quickly sticking out your tongue then pulling it back in.
- Butterfly: Begin as a caterpillar crawling on the ground. Wrap yourself into a chrysalis by turning around and around. Now begin to flap your wings to break out of your cocoon. Flap a bit faster as you break out of the cocoon as a beautiful butterfly and fly (run or tiptoe) around the room.
