Robots-A TRANSFERER

NEW! INTERACTIVE PLANNING-ROBOTS

(Open interactive planning-Robots) Print and use the document to present activities related to the theme for your group. 

AREA SETUP

NEW! Thematic poster-Robots
(Open thematic poster-Robots) Print and display.

NEW! Educa-decorate-Robots
(Open educa-decorate-Robots) Print, laminate, and cut out the items. Use them to decorate your daycare walls and set the mood for the theme.

NEW! Educa-theme-Robots
(Open educa-theme-Robots) Print and laminate the different elements representing the theme. The items can be used to present the theme to children (and their parents) or simply to decorate your daycare for the theme.

NEW! Pennants-Robots
(Open pennants-Robots) Print the pennants. Assemble them to form a garland that can be hung in your daycare entrance. Place a chair covered with red fabric in the daycare. It will be the throne. Lay out a red carpet in front of the chair. Hang a veil over the throne and set vases with flowers on each side of it.

NEW! Interactive identification cards-Robots
(Open interactive identification cards-Robots) Type the name of each child on an identification card. Save and print the document. You can print it on adhesive paper and press the identification cards directly on children’s clothing or, if you prefer, you can print them on heavy paper, punch a hole at the top of each card, and thread a piece of string through. Children can wear their identification card like a necklace. The identification cards may also be used to identify children’s spaces and personal belongings.

PICTURE GAME

NEW! The pictures may be used as a memory game or to spark a conversation with the group.  Use them to decorate the daycare or a specific thematic corner. (Open picture game-Robots) Print, laminate, and store in a “Ziploc” bag or in your thematic bins.

ACTIVITY SHEETS AND WRITING ACTIVITIES

Activity sheets are suggested for each theme. Print and follow instructions. (Open activity sheet-Robots)

NEW! Writing activity
(Open writing activities-R Like Robot) Print for each child or laminate for use with a dry-erase marker.

VARIOUS WORKSHOPS

Construction or building blocks:

• Cover the floor with a solar blanket, camping mattress, or aluminum paper
• Wrap wooden blocks with aluminum paper
• Add Styrofoam balls which can be used to make space-like constructions
• Lego-style blocks are great for building robots

Arts & crafts:

• Aluminum paper or other types of metallic paper
• Various sizes of cardboard boxes to build robots with
• Recycled material, scraps of paper, pipe cleaners, etc.
• Sparkles, glitter glue, anything which reminds you of outer space

Drawing:

• Silver, gold, or bronze-coloured gel crayons can be used on dark paper
• Rocket, spaceship, planet, and star stencils
• Coloring pages representing robots, outer space, rockets, and spaceships

Role play:

• A tent or a large appliance box can become a robot’s home. Glue fluorescent stars to the ceiling.  Children will feel like they are really in outer space
• Wacky costumes can be used to create space creatures, remember to take pictures!
• Large cardboard boxes are perfect for creating robot costumes. Bubble wrap, an old snowsuit, or simply transparent garbage bags are fun too!
• An old computer keyboard, old pots, a colander, etc. Children will get creative and fantastic robots will emerge! 

Manipulation:

• Memory game with robot illustrations, use our Educatall picture game or a store-bought version related to the theme
• Robot puzzles
• Blue, white, or grey modeling dough. Why not add a few sparkles?  Children will love to see their creations sparkle!  Use star or moon-shaped cookie cutters
• A container filled with space-coloured beads children can use to make multifunction bracelets or anti-alien necklaces. Using old buttons, children can invent all kinds of jewellery for robots with various functions fit for a science fiction movie...of course imagination is required
• Lite-Brite It shines like the stars in the sky
• Assembly or gear games for creating original robots
• K’NEX game

Pre-reading:

• Books about robots, planets, outer space, and means of transportation
• Hang a piece of tulle over your reading area and deposit confetti stars or glow in the dark stars on top
• Decorate your reading area with lights (Christmas lights) so it looks like there are shining stars

Pre-writing:

• Hunt and seek games
• Activity sheets related to the theme
• Games with educatall word flashcards
• Tracing and maze activities
• A dot to dot robot

Motor skills:

• Game of “Robot says” played like “Simon says” using robot-like movements and a robot-like voice
• Your parachute may become a spaceship! Adapt the games you normally play to give them an out of this world robot twist
• Obstacle course throughout which children move like robots
• Sing into different containers and listen to the different tones! Try a metal container, children will enjoy
• Record yourself speaking with a microphone and listen to the recording 

Sensory bins:

• Container filled with straws, children search for precious stones
• Container filled with artificial snowflakes

Science:

• Hot and cold activities to discuss temperature changes and the temperature on various planets
• Activities with and without oxygen (fire is extinguished without oxygen)
• What is rust?
• Motor pieces can be manipulated
• Manipulation of real tools

Kitchen:

• Prepare a recipe using a food processor (your own little robot)

LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES

NEW! Word flashcards-Robots

The flashcards may be used during circle time to spark a conversation with the group or in your reading and writing area. They may also be used to identify your thematic bins. (Open word flashcards-Robots) or (Giant word flashcards-Robots) robot, oil, metal, screw, antenna, computer, magnet, remote control, spring, bolt, rust, silver

NEW! Educa-chatterbox-Robots
(Open educa-chatterbox-Robots) Print and laminate the items. Add them to a box that you have decorated to represent the theme. Add a variety of illustrations and objects related to the theme. During circle time or waiting periods, for example when children are waiting for their lunch to be served, encourage them to pick an item out of the box and name it.

NEW! Word game-Robots
(Open word game-Robots) Print, laminate, and cut out numerous letters. Give each child a small shovel. You will also need word flashcards. Using adhesive putty, press a word flashcard in each child’s shovel. Invite children to search for the letters needed to “write” their word. Once they have found all the letters, encourage them to arrange them in the correct order. Read their word with them. 

Picture clue story

(Open picture clue story-Robots) Print. Sit in a circle with the group. Begin reading the picture clue story.  Pause for each picture clue. Point to the clue and have children guess the missing word.  Complete the activity with a craft and discuss the story.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND MOTOR SKILLS

The robot says...

This game is played like “Simon says”. Give children instructions. They must follow the instruction only if you said “The robot says...” first. Otherwise, they must remain still.

Lego robot

Have children build a robot using Lego blocks. Each child can build his own robot or they may work together.

NEW! Modeling dough activity placemats-Robots
(Open modeling dough activity placemats-Robots) Print and laminate. Let children pick a placemat and provide modeling dough. Encourage them to use the dough to fill or reproduce the shapes that are on their placemat.

NEW! Playing cards-Robots
(Open playing cards-Robots) Print and laminate the cards, then hide them indoors or outdoors. Divide children into two teams. At your signal, they must collect as many cards as possible within a set time.

NEW! Lacing-Robots
(Open lacing-Robots) Print, laminate, and cut out the shape and use a hole-punch to make holes all the way around the contour of each one. Set shoelaces or ribbons on the table and encourage children to lace the shapes.

Identical robots

Two children stand, facing each other. They must try to repeat each other’s movements as if they were their friend’s reflection in a mirror. Invite them to move like robots.

COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES

NEW! Counting cards-Robots
(Open counting cards-Robots) Print and laminate. Prepare a series of wooden clothespins on which you can paint or draw numbers 1 to 9. Children count the items on each card and place the corresponding clothespin on the correct number.

NEW! Color by number-Robots
(Open color by number-Robots) Print for each child. Children must color the picture according to the color code.

NEW! Association puzzles-numbers-Robots
(Open association puzzles-numbers-Robots) Print, laminate, and cut each puzzle in half. Children have fun counting the objects and associating the correct number to each set to complete the puzzles.

NEW! Pick, search, and color letters-Robots
(Open pick, search, and color letters-Robots) Print and laminate the letters. Children pick a card and search for and color the corresponding letter.

NEW! Educa-pairs-Robots
(Open educa-pairs-Robots) Print. Children connect identical images or color them the same color. For an eco-friendly option, laminate and use dry-erase markers.

NEW! Educ-intruder-Robots

(Open educ-intruder-Robots) Print and laminate. Children must search for the six items shown at the bottom of the page in the scene.

NEW! Game-Four-Robots
(Open game-Four robots) Print, stick the cards on opaque cardboard, and cut them out. Set all the cards face down on the floor. Children take turns rolling the die. Every time the die lands on “1”, they pick a card and look at it without showing it to the other children. If they don’t already have the? they picked, they set it on the floor in front of them for everyone to see. The game continues. The first child who has all four? wins.

NEW! I am inventing my-Robots
(Open I am inventing my-Robots) Print, laminate, and cut each image in half. Give children the pieces and invite them to assemble the heads and bodies to invent unique? They do not have to use the pieces that are supposed to go together.

Giant robot pieces

(Open game-Giant robot pieces) Print, laminate, and cut each robot piece.  Children sit on the floor to assemble their giant robot.

Coded message

(Open coded message) Print.  Robots have a language of their own which we do not understand.  Have children invent or interpret the meaning of the messages.

Obedient robot

Children find a partner. Deposit various objects on the table (pencil, small car, block, etc.).  One child sits at the table, blindfolded.  The other child stands beside him.  The blindfolded child must listen carefully to his partner’s instructions.  For example, he may instruct him to move his hand higher, lower, to the left, or to the right, to find an object.

MORAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

NEW! Erasable game-Robots
(Open erasable game-Robots) Print and laminate. Let children pick a worksheet and use dry-erase markers to reproduce the emotion that is illustrated

EARLY SCIENCE

Magnetic robot

Robots are made of metal and magnets stick to them.  Provide children with magnets and encourage them to find metal objects within the daycare.

Magnet game

Place objects on a table (nails, paperclips, coins, elastics, aluminum, pencils, blocks, lipstick, etc.).  Place a magnet near one object at a time.  Sort the objects.  The objects attracted by the magnet go in one container and the objects which are not attracted to the magnet go in another container.  Help children understand how metals are attracted by the magnet.

Magnetic memory game-Robots

(Open story and memory game-Robots) Print twice and cut out the illustrations.  Glue them to the top of frozen juice cans.  Attach a magnet to the end of a fishing rod (or a stick with string).  Lay the illustrations face down on the floor.  Children pick two illustrations.  If they are identical, they keep them and play again.  Otherwise, they must wait for their next turn.

CULINARY ACTIVITIES

Spring and oil soup

Prepare chicken broth.  Add noodles shaped like tiny springs.  Have children drink the soup using straws and eat their “springs” with their fingers.

ARTS & CRAFTS

NEW! Models-Robots
(Open models-Robots) Print the different models and use them for various activities and projects throughout the theme.  

NEW! Finger puppets-Robots

(Open finger puppets-Robots) Print the puppets on heavy paper or cardboard. Have children cut them out and color them if you are using the black and white ones. Show children how they can insert their fingers in the puppets to bring them to life.

NEW! Mask-Robots
(Open mask-Robots) Print and set the pieces in the center of the table. Let children create their own mask using arts & crafts material and crayons. Simply attach a string to either side of each mask so that you can tie their masks behind their head.

Robot

Give each child a brown paper grocery bag.  Draw eyes, a nose, and a mouth.  Cut them out.  Provide several metal cans, empty toilet paper rolls, aluminum paper, and a variety of material children may use to create their robot.  Help them secure their pieces with hot glue.

Robot head

For each child, cut a hole in the top of a box for his head.  Remember to cut out a nose, eyes, and a mouth.  Cover with aluminum paper.  Add antennas made with pipe cleaners and Styrofoam balls.  Let children decorate as they please.

Oil and screws

Have children create a collage using fusilli pasta and corn syrup.

Oil painting

Let children paint with a corn syrup and maple syrup.  You may add food colouring to make the “paint” darker.

Robot antennas

(Open robot antennas) Print for each child.  Cover a headband and the antennas with aluminum paper.  Staple and decorate.

COLORING PAGES

NEW! Coloring pages-Robots

(Open coloring pages theme-Robots)

Creative coloring

(Open creative coloring-Robots) Print for each child.  Children complete the picture by drawing what is hidden in the robot’s stomach.

SONGS & RHYMES

Five little robots

by: Patricia Morrison - Sung to: Five little ducks

Five little robots went to outer space one day

Up in the sky and far away

Mother robot said,

“Beep, beep, beep, beep”

But only 4 little robots came back

Four little robots went to outer space one day

Up in the sky and far away

Mother robot said,

“Beep, beep, beep, beep”

But only 3 little robots came back

Three little robots went to outer space one day

Up in the sky and far away

Mother robot said,

“Beep, beep, beep, beep”

But only 2 little robots came back

Two little robots went to outer space one day

Up in the sky and far away

Mother robot said,

“Beep, beep, beep, beep”

But only 1 little robot came back

One little robot went to outer space one day

Up in the sky and far away

Mother robot said,

“Beep, beep, beep, beep”

But no little robots came back

Sad mother robot went to outer space one day

Up in the sky and far away

Sad mother robot said,

“Beep, beep, beep, beep”

And all of the five little robots came back

The lights on the robot                    

by: Patricia Morrison-Sung to: The wheels on the bus

The lights on the robot go on and off

On and off, on and off

The lights on the robot go on and off

All day long

The arms on the robot go up and down

Up and down, up and down

The arms on the robot go up and down

All day long

The feet on the robot go clickity clack

Clickity clack, clickity clack

The feet on the robot go clickity clack

All day long

The antennas on the robot go wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

The antennas on the robot go wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

All day long