The idea of "Book of ideas" has been created for a practical reasons. Participants can exchange their ideas for a sense perception development, share creativity, and each of activity realize with pupils. We believe, that it will enrich our project activities and work. So, let´s straight to creating a new (Book of) ideas! ;)

Michal & Natalia

The sense perception development can be a wonderful fun.

Below you can find my two themes for next project activities, that you can try with your children. I´ll be glad, if you´ll contribute with others (you feel free to edit this content).

Michal

1. Colors from the bag

Tactile and visual sense ... to the bags we squeeze a tempera paints and bottom of each bag we glue, with adhesive tape, on the table (desk). Children create from color in the bag different patterns or shapes with your fingers or with a cotton sticks (look on photos below).

2. Senses in our feet

On the legs should be don´t forget. Look, what you have in the kitchen, household or classroom. Choose something such as: baking sheets for muffins, silicone forms for small biscuits, hoops for ice cubes, rug on the floor and so on.
All of these things put down on dry floor or carpet. Children can going, with help of other pupil, on these items (with closed eyes or blindfolded). It's great for maintaining balance. In addition, pupils can describe, what they feel (cold, heat, as they like the different materials - metal, plastic, etc.). Of course, you must watch out on pupil´s safety. 

3. Sense in our fingers

Let's surprise our fingers and make them dive in a magical box of colourful, soft and wet water balls. You can hide in them different objects and let your students guess what they are. The balls are hydroballs used to water the flowers. Have great fun! 

4. Hand in gypsum

Have you ever compared, each others, your hands? Certainly yes. Someone has a bigger hand, someone smaller. The differences can be observed in details, when we make a gypsum handprint.
For first, we put to the bowl two cups of gypsum and one cup of water, we stir and pour it into a deeper plastic saucer (this amount is enough to imprint of one hand). To the gypsum mass we give a piece of an lace as a hanging loop. Filled saucer let fall lightly on a table for the smoothed surface of gypsum. Then we press the hand with a extended fingers to the gypsum and gently turn stroke, in order to avoid imprint damaging. Gypsum let dry about 25 minutes. After drying we can paint with colors an places around of handprint or just only handprint.

The dried and painted handprint is also a nice and interesting decoration to your classroom.

 

5. Detective profile

Have you ever seen, how to take the fingerprints? Each surface of fingers is different, unique. People make sometimes even an photos too - e.g. from the profile. We may also play like a detectives, do our fingerprints and make a photo taken in shadow image. Each pupil will have a paper, that he did, to the bottom, imprints of his fingers (fingers of one hand). Here we need a colorpad for stamps or watercolors. Then we´ll create a shadow image. Those, who will take photos, sit on a chair sideway to the wall.  In the amount of his head we fitt to the wall an color paper (with adhesive tape). Then we direct a table lamp against the wall, the head of the seated pupil cast a shadow on the color paper. Other pupil trace with a pencil the outline of the shadow, contour cut and stuck to the fingerprints. Thus each pupil will have his "detective profile".

  

6. Find the bones of our skeleton

For this game it's importan to sit or stay in a circle formation near enough to touch the child in a front of you. Teacher start first touching the child in the front of him/her and name the bone - for example spine and the child who's bone is  touched is doing the same to the child in a front of her/him.

It was fun and we learned the major bones in English this way.

   

7. Mummies

Who will be the most beautiful mummy? This activity isn´t difficult for the material. We need just a lot of toilet paper. We divide the children into two groups. One group will be a mummies, the other guardians of mummies. Each guardian will be responsible for one mummy - pupil, that he wrap with toilet paper from the feet to the head - can´t see anything (only nose). The end of the paper can be fixed with the adhesive tape. Mummy will make different movements - move forward, backward, sideways and so on. Then we´ll help the mummies to leave down and similar movements they will do well in this position - roll, rotate and so on. Subsequently we rise up the mummies. Guardians left the classroom and teacher placed mummies to each other in a different order. Guardian must find his mummy, that has been entrusted them at the beginning of the activity.

8. Shadow theatre

For an cultural experience we don´t going so far. Good actors can be found in our classroom. For first we prepare the construction (we can use two stands or school desks, that we build up on each other), through we arrange white sheet (e.g. bed sheet) and we pin it with pins for clothes. Behind the sheet we lay an table lamp, that will be shine to sheet. Pupil stay behind and his task will be to illustrate the various assignments (e.g. animals, letters, etc.). Other pupils must, under the shadow figure, to find out, what pupil behind the sheet shows.

 

9. Silent and blind painters

Two blind painters, one pencil. It will be easy something to draw or write? On floor or carpet we place an sheet of wrapping paper (we can use also an paper for flipchart). Two pupils sit at paper and we committing their eyes. They have at disposal one pencil (or marker). Their task is to draw an picture under the assignments (e.g. house with two windows and with chimney) or write some short word. These painters work together (hand/s of painters is/are on the pencil) and must be quiet. Other pupils can help with the specified direction of pencil move.

 

10. Target

Can you hit the target, when you´re "dizzy"? First we prepare target: on one end of the thread we fasten the black pen (or marker), on the other end an pin. Pin with a thread we stick into the middle of a larger wrapping paper and with marker, that is tied to a thread, we draw a circle. Then a thread we shorten by ten centimeters and again we draw a circle. The same is repeated six times. Smallest circle we paint in black. Target we hang up on the wall. Pupil sits on a revolving chair (or can only turn on the spot) and then, blindfolded, trying with a gavel, dipped in paint, hit the "black". Matches can be called with the names of pupils. 

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11. Wizard´s fight

Two wizards are arguing about a ring, that fell to the ground. Only wizard, who take it by force, may fly off on his broom. Each wizard hold firmly a one end of a broom, not to let him go. Wizards stay opposite to each other. Among them lying on the ground (preferably on a carpet) a "magic ring". Wizards seek to prevent, one of other, to be able bend the ring. They fight until finally and one of wizards is an winner and take the ring. Whoever wins, can fly away on a broom :hz), or try a fight with some of the next wizard.

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12. Relay race in a sitting position

This is a small relay, in which the hand must not be used. We create two equally sized teams, who sits on chairs opposite to each other. Each player give, to his mouth, a handle of the plastic spoon. Two players, who sits at the beginning of the two rows facing each other, put on the spoon a ping-pong balls. At the direction must the neighbors in each row submit a ball on a spoon to his neighbor, the next turn and so on. Players not help with the hands. If the any of players lost (dropped) a ball, must start again from the wide players. The winner is the team,v that manages to get the ball to the end of the relay.

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13. Guess by touch

Can you grope, with a one hand, and guess, what it is? One player have committing eyes. One hand he put behind the back, to the other hand we give him, gradually, every one minute, any small object (generally three or five objects). Other players can´t see the objects. Then he untied the scarf and write, on the paper, in order, what has he felt.

14. TV program with a body language

Have you ever seen an television program with a body language? No? So, let's try it. For this activity we´ll use an old big carton. We divide the children into pairs. Each pair prepare a short "television program" (eg. reading, speaking, singing, etc.). One of the pair is "in TV" (in the hole in carton can be seen the pupil´s face ), the other is next to and with different gestures shows, what the pupil in TV is presenting.

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