Book Related Activities

Name of Book: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Center/Activity Infants Toddler Preschool School-Age
12 – 18 mo 18 mo – 3 yr 3 – 5 yr 5+
Sensory: Finger-paint a large cut out of tree together, may choose to finger-paint personal-sized tree. Use
Art Activities foam letters to stamp letters onto the tree. Children may choose which letters, assist in
identifying the letter & sound when the child chooses a letter.

Music Activities Listen to & sing along to the CD. Play the song w/
Children use Drums (pots/pans), paper plate maracas to play along instruments without the
CD for the younger
children
Tactile Activities Sensory Table : create little bags each for a
specific letter. Place the same objects or letters
in the sand table. Children have to feel in the
bags to guess which one has the same as what
is in the table then can play with the bags.
Cognitive & Language
Activities

Small Muscle Stack alphabet blocks & knock them over Stack the alphabet blocks, encouraging correct
Activities (falling out of the tree) sequencing

Large Muscle Children re-enact the book, climbing & using hand motions/sign language, falling out of tree &
Activities getting back up.

Self-Awareness, Self- Acknowledge what you can/can’t do. For example ask can baby mary (13 months) climb eth
Esteem, Self-Help “tree” (ladder set up for re-enacting)? Children: “NO” Can Joe (age 4 yrs) climb the “tree”?
Children “yes” You: “Then show me.”
Activities Can you ride a trike, a bike, drive a car? Can I tie my shoe, cross the street alone, …?
Children of all ages need help identifying what they can /can’t do. Some children think they can
do more than what they really can do & some children don’t realize all that they can achieve.
This will encourage them to self-reflect on a child-size scale.
Age-specific Group Beat a drum & sing Fill in repetitive Given pre-formed Hide letters for the little
activities Boom Boom at the pharase in the letters, match the ones to find.
correct time in the book. book when letters to the book Assist in re-enacting the
omitted book.
Entire Group Activities Have children act out each letter as you read the book. Let younger ones go first

Special Outdoor Activity Alphabet Hunt : Place items under/around/on trees. Place letters in tricky spots for older
children or have them find letters to spell certain words (use their weekly spelling list)

Special Indoor Activities Child-made letters on transparent/colored paper in windows, walls, etc.

Notes: Identify letters as being in own name,

not necessarily identify by the letter
name.
Other related Chicka-Chicka 1-2-3
books/themes: Alphabet Under Construction
Who Lives in the Tree?
The Great Kapok Tree