We had read Chika-Chika Boom Boom in class and my students love the rhythmic rhymes in the story. They don't get tired of it that we read it every school year.
Some activities we would do with it are...
- An easy cut and paste option is to make a 2-dimensional coconut tree and pasting it on a large piece of orange construction paper. Then my students would either use rubber stamp letters or paste foam alphabet stickers.
- We also do a paint, cut and paste activity. We would make a coconut tree using a kitchen towel roll that we would paint brown, and then we use green foam sheets for leaves. We then paste some alphabet crackers on the trunk. -- sorry no photo, but will update this post when we make another one
- At the beginning of the week we start our paper mache maracas project so that when we read the story on Friday, we can shake away as we all say "Chika-Chika Boom Boom will there be enough room" -- again no photo, will update when I have one
- Although the maracas project is prettier since we can paint it and then decorate it, sometimes we just don't have enough time so we make egg shakers the day before by using plastic eggs (from easter) with some beans inside, and then we glue cut up tissue paper around it. This can dry overnight and are ready the next day. -- still, no photo
The students love the story, but they enjoy it even more when we watch a Scholastic Video version of it, after the art activities. The video plays this funky 80's music that the kids enjoy.
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