Creative Literacy and Numeracy Ideas on the Theme of Frozen

You need:

• Plastic bucket
• Bucket apron (Amazon)
• Organza  - blue, turquoise
• Frozen characters, Elsa, Anna (rag doll) and Olaf
• Set of miniatures including Elsa, Anna and Olaf along with Kristoff, Hans and Sven (Disney store)
• Polystyrene balls (Hobbycraft)
• Sparkly white pom poms (Hobbycraft)
• Snow wand (light up toy from Amazon)
• Reindeer ( Christmas decoration)
• Crown (Christmas decoration)
• Olaf’s boater (from Olaf toy)
• Real Boater (fancy dress hat – from Amazon)
• Silver sparkly leaves  (Christmas decoration)
• ID cards for braille/large print key words
• Tinsel for bucket handle
• Velcro
• Bull dog clips

What to do

• Tie the bucket apron around the bucket, secure in place with bull dog clips over edge of bucket
• Place the organza fabrics in the bucket and position the large dolls and on top
• Put the small objects in each pocket of the bucket apron
• Attach Velcro to the front of each pocket 
• Make large print or braille labels for each object and add to ID cards. Add the corresponding label to the front of each pocket
• Wind the tinsel around the handle

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Maximising the learning

• Read the story of "Frozen" to the child
• Have the child find, hold, and explore the items from each pocket of the bucket
• Talk about each item, use descriptive words whilst the child explores 
• Locate the name label on the pocket, read the initial letter/whole word – place the correct item in the pocket
• Or... feel the object in each pocket of the bucket apron and add the correct name label to the outside of the pocket
• Play the songs from Frozen, dress up and role play some of the scenes
• Make up counting games with the snowballs and pompoms
• Feel the organza and "floaty" blue, turquoise fabrics

Model making: 

Frozen Naming Game

You will need:

• Lazy Sue - IKEA
• Silver paper
• Blank ID cards
• "Frozen" miniature figures
• Plastic transparent cylinder shaped container
• Silver card to make crowns
• Some beads, tactile shapes
• Tinsel
• Small set of lights (worked on battery)
• Gripping stuff – to hold container in place

What to do:

• Cover the Lazy Sue in silver paper
• Place the tinsel in the container and wrap the lights around the outside
• Add some more tinsel around the top of the container and secure in place
• Cut and fit a circle of "Gripping Stuff" to the bottom of the container  to stop it slipping around
• Place the container in the middle of the "Lazy Sue". Add the "Frozen" characters around the container (hold in place with blu tack if necessary)
• Make braille / large print name labels for each of the "Frozen" characters (Elsa, Anna, Sven, Olaf, Hans) and fix to the blank ID cards
• Position / space the ID name cards equally around the edge of the "Lazy Sue" with small pieces of "Gripping stuff"
• Cut out crowns in silver card to fit the child’s head and add some tactile decorations to the front. Involve the child in making the crowns with you.
• Add a name label (in braille or large print) to each crown (Elsa, Anna, Sven, Olaf )

Play a simple game: 

• Play some "Frozen" music or songs.  When the music stops, pick a name card and find the matching character.
• Or in addition, find the matching crown and wear it.
• Or match the name on the crown to the correct character and name label.

Ice Crowns 

You need:

• Plastic icicles x 6
• Blue glittery foam stars
• Blue or turquoise beads
• Silver glittery leaves 
• White foam paper, or card
• Duct tape

 

What to do:

• Make the front of the crown: Cut a band of foam paper to fit around the front of the child’s head, to form the main part of the crown 
• Securely tape the silver leaves and icicles in position along the inside of the crown front so that they show above it – see picture.
• Add a blue star to the centre front of the crown 
• Add two or three beads to the middle of the star
• Staple a thin band of cardboard to each short end of the crown front to make a circle which will fit over the child’s head

 

Olaf Counting Game

You will need:

• Lazy Sue
• Silver paper with tactile surface (sticky back silver paper bought on a roll from Hobbycraft)
• Plastic container
• Blue glittery foam sheet
• Cotton wool
• Polystyrene balls
• Plastic Christmas tree icicles
• Wooden discs or circles of card
• Wikki stix
• Cardboard to cut out Olaf shapes
• Felt circles to make Olaf’s buttons

 

 

 

 

 

What to do:

• Cover Lazy Sue with silver shiny/tactile paper (self adhesive)
• Download a clear black and white outline of Olaf from the Internet
• Cut out 6 Olaf shapes in white paper/thin card or prepare in raised line format on zyfuse paper and cut out shapes
• Also cut out the Olaf shapes in thick card and glue the white card Olaf shapes on to the thick card shapes, sandwiching the wikki stix arms in-between the card
• Add black felt buttons, tactile self adhesive beads or gems to each Olaf
• Cut out and glue silver circles to each of 6 wooden discs (sticky back tactile silver paper used here)
• Add a braille / large print number to each disc (1 – 6)
• Use small pieces of ‘Gripping Stuff’ to secure the Olaf’s and number discs in place around the edge of the Lazy Sue. (See picture.)
• Cover the plastic container with a blue glittery foam sheet; glue some cotton wool around the top
• Fill the container with polystyrene snow balls

 

Play a counting game....

• Spin the ‘Lazy Sue,’ each time it stops, read the number on the disc next to the Olaf and count the snowballs into the container. 
• Child keeps the disc and spins the Lazy Sue again until all the discs are used up. 
• This game can be played with a partner or in a group. 
• Alternative: Use icicles instead of snowballs
• Add talking pegs alongside each Olaf and either read the corresponding number onto the peg or encourage the child to do this
• Counting on – child hold’s number in head, when the Lazy Sue stops, child adds/places the number of balls indicated on the disc into the container

 

Frozen Sensory Tray

Add anything to the tray that the child may like, here are some suggestions:

• A deep box or tray 
• Cotton wool balls
• Ice cubes 
• Ice blocks
• Small clear bottles and containers filled with blue or silver buttons or beads – fastened securely with tape around the tops of the containers
• Plastic icicles
• Snowflakes – Christmas tree decorations made of tinsel, soft touch.
• Lametta or tinsel
• Sparkly beads, or light up balls
• Blue and silver pom poms
• Shiny silver beads

 

Play some "Frozen" music and enjoy exploring the sensory tray; feel the objects, textures, shapes, the coldness of the ice cubes, the softness of the feathers, the silkiness of the ribbons.