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Super Bowl Theme
Ideas
Here you will find
Super Bowl activities
to do with your preschool child(ren).
Have Fun!
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PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE PAGE LOADS
(Photos submitted
by Shell)
Paper
Football
I precut football shapes
beforehand,
the children glued the pieces together
to create their own paper football.
Later I had to trim off the excess white
stripes that were sticking off the ball. |
Super
Bowl Graph
My husband made the Team
Footballs
and we graphed their favorites by
putting their names on a piece
of masking tape and placing it
under the team they wanted to win. |
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Playin' Football
Each of the children
took turns
throwing a soft football
(purchased from Oriental Trading)
through the goal.
Check out our cool striped floor...
we used the stripes as yard lines...
each time they made a touchdown..
they stepped back to the next
yard line and tossed the ball
through the post again.
(See our homemade goal post below...) |
Our
Cheerleaders
We had two cheerleaders
(both boys and girls)
on both sides of our football
player, helping to cheer the player
on to making a touchdown.
We practiced spelling our friends
names this way...
Give me a "J", Give me an "O", Give me
an "E" what does that spell? "JOE!"
The rest of the class sat on the
sidelines until it was their turn to be
the "quarterback" or the "cheerleaders." |
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Football Goal Post
To create the goal post,
I attached
wrapping paper tubes together with
masking tape. To hold it up, I used an
empty Pringles can... placed the tube
inside and filled the can with sand.
You can also make it out of PVC pipes. |
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~ PARTY IDEAS ~
Super Bowl
Party
Host a Preschool Super Bowl
Party!
For the invites, use football-textured paper found at craft stores.
Cut this paper & white vellum into the shape of a football and join
the two together using brown leather lacing, also found at craft
stores.
On the vellum, print "ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL"
like the
old Monday night football theme. Also, print the party details on
to the vellum.
Gameday: (date) Kickoff: (time) Stadium:
(location)
Pull out your pom poms Strap on your helmets...
Join us for some tailgate fun!
Decorate for the Party
Have the children create banners
and posters for
the two teams that are playing in the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl Party
Wear
On the day of your party, have
students wear anything related to football... for
example, jerseys or cheerleading outfits. Teacher can wear a
referee shirt. LOL!
Football Lace
Cards
Last year I cut out football
shapes from brown paper, folded them
in half length wise, punched a few holes along the seam in the
middle
and they laced up their balls with white yarn. Simple, but cute.
Team Balloons
To decorate your classroom,
put clusters of football-shaped mylar balloons that
are surrounded by lots of latex balloons (of the two teams colors)
all around.
Football Toss
Throw a ball through a hula hoop.
If your children are really young, you may want parents to help out
by
holding the hoop and move it to make sure the ball actually
goes through.
Dizzy Kicker
Blindfolded the children one at a
time.
Spin them three times then have them kick a balloon.
Hot Football
Played just like hot potato, but
with a small
football. Pass it in a circle with music
Face Painting
Find a parent volunteer that
paints well. Have them draw the child's favorite
team logo playing in the super bowl that year on their cheek using
face paint.
Football Field
Yard
If you want to go all out, plant
winter rye grass 1-2 months before the party so you
can have a green turf. Then buy turf spray paint at Wal-Mart to
paint your yard lines.
(Photo from
Oriental Trading)
Football
Pinata
Purchase a football pinata for
your party. You can find one like
what is shown above at the
Oriental Trading Company
website.
~ REFRESHMENTS ~
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Serve your little athletes
Gatorade in one of those big orange coolers.
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Serve a buffet of football themed food: subs, wings, pizza,
popcorn, pretzels, nachos, cracker jacks, peanuts,
Serve on football-shaped plates & platters.
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Purchase a cake shaped like a football or a sheet cake decorated
with
a green football field, yardage numbers, field goals and little plastic
football players. Present the cake on a piece of astro-turf for the
tablecloth. Use football helmets and pom poms for decorations.
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Bake a round cake with a green
coconut football field and white
icing yard lines....pretzel stick goal posts and footballs going around
side
made out of Kraft Caramels...pinched at the end with white icing laces.
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Football chocolate cookies on a Popsicle stick and helmet cupcakes.
(Below
ideas and printables were submitted by Kristin)
THANKS KRISTIN!!!
Last year I had quite a few kids
in my class that were into football and
the Super Bowl...much to my "saddness". They were all Steelers fans
(I am a Brownie). Anyway, following their lead we had a Super Bowl
party.
We ordered pizza, brought in a video of football that we let run while we
did
other things and then played games outside with footballs. We also worked
on the attached page to make a class book. Even the kids that didn't care
or know anything about football liked it. I had the kids...if they were
able...
write the name of the team and the score. Anyway, I changed the
names on
the page to reflect this year's teams. It turned out pretty cute when it
was all
done. Maybe someone can use it this year.
2007 Super Bowl Predictions Chart
Preschool Super Bowl Picks
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LINKS ~
Super Bowl Party ideas at Teaching
Heart
Super Bowl Party Ideas at Make Learning Fun
Football Craft Ideas at DLTK-KIDS
Football Coloring Pages
Football Boy Coloring Page
Quarterback Cut-Out Figures
Ideas
submitted by:
Shell, Christine, Kristin, Janelle,
Graphics from:
Cute Colors
Pre-K
Fun Theme Pages are
non-profit & for educational reference only!
No copyright infringement is intended.
I do not claim any of these as my own
ideas.
They are shared from friends and fellow group
members.
Some ideas found have been compiled from groups
through the yrs.
Thanks for sharing all your great ideas!
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