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Rubber Ducks
Purchase several rubber ducks and use a black permanent marker to write the numbers "1," "2" or "3" on the bottom of each duck. Fill a medium-size rubber tub with enough water to make the ducks float. Make three different stacks of duck coloring activities, such as coloring pages, word searches and puzzles. have the children come up one at a time and select a rubber duck from the "pond." If the child selects a duck with a "2" on the bottom, he can select an activity from the corresponding stack.
Another idea for a teacher is to allow the students to use this activity to receive prizes for good behavior and completed assignments. Make three buckets, labeled "1," "2" and "3" and fill each bucket with toys, candy and pencils. If the child selects a duck with the number "1," she can select a prize from that bucket.
Egg Hunt
You will need to select one child to be the "parent duck" and a plastic egg. The selected child covers her eyes while you hide the egg in the classroom, making sure all the other children see where you hide it. When the "parent duck" starts hunting for the egg, the children must quack quietly when she is not close and quack louder the closer she gets to the egg. If you want to award prizes, set a time limit of one or two minutes and award a prize for each "parent duck" that finds the egg in the allocated time.
Counting Duck Toss
Have all the children sit in a circle and hand one student a rubber ducky. Let the children practice tossing the duck to one another. When they are ready, have one student toss the duck to another student and yell out "one." That student throws the duck to another student who yells "two." If a student miscounts or someone drops the duck, everyone must start over. Tell the students to keep trying to beat their high score each time. Another idea is to have the students counts by 2's, 5's and 10's.