Child development opportunities
To talk about and make paper chains for decorations To listen carefully and respond to instructions To increase number awareness To learn about co-operating
How to play
* Explain that the children are going to make some chains.
* Have them dance around to music.
* When you stop the music, call out a number, for example, five.
* As soon as they hear the number five, they get into chains of five people linking arms and standing still. (Show them how to link arms.) * Congratulate the first chain to get organised and give each child in the chain a star.
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