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Halloween Kids Activities

Movement Activity

Bats are sleeping
Bat activity

Objectives

Children will develop their language skills and improve their gross motor skills.

Materials

Directions:

Have children pretend to be bats sleeping while you sing the song. At the end of the song the "bats" wake up and fly around until you start the song again.

Bats Are Sleeping
(Tune: Frere Jacques)

Bats are sleeping,
Bats are sleeping,
Upside down,
Upside down.
Sleeping in the morning sun.
Waiting for the night to come.
Then they'll fly all around.
Then they'll fly all around.

Extension:

Bat Cave
Using large cardboard boxes or tables and blankets, make a bat cave. Let your child use it for dramatic play or for reading books about bats.

Bat Finger Puppet
Make this cute finger puppet bat to recite the rhyme.

 

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