All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

Which animals live underground? Well, ants do, so my five-year-olds made some tunnels for ants. We used toilet paper rolls glued onto a big brown piece of paper for the tunnels. Then the students made the ants. I used black paint to paint one of their fingers and they made three little circles, then used a black pen to draw the legs and antennae. After that, they glued googly eyes on the heads. Last we drew some leaves on green paper and also cut small strips of different tones of green paper to be the grass. We wanted it to look like the tunnels were underground. We made one ant, they'll probably make more next class, on a folded white paper and placed it coming out of one of the tunnels. I was able to use this ant colony to ask them how many ants and leaves there were, what color the ants were, if the ants were hungry, and they sponateously decided which ant was the queen. We were extremely proud of our ant colony creation. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜  

My 5-year-olds are studying nature and the animals we can see in a forest. We made these owls out of cardboard, some leftover paper, and plastic bottle tops. We added a little stick for the owls to perch on. They could also finger paint some parts of the owl if they wanted to. We glued them onto black paper so it would look like it was nighttime.  When they were completely dry, we hid them around the room for students to find. We would help the kids by telling them if they were hot or cold. When they finally found their owl, we asked, what is it, and they had to say, it's an owl. I thought they all came out amazing!  

Who doesn't love to listen to a good song?! My little kids are studying about words to use to talk about feelings and specifically this day about what makes them happy. I used cardboard for the guitars. I made sure to cut them out before class because the cardboard was a little too hard for them to cut, although I do like them to be able to practice using scissors. The students painted them and glued the paper details. They pretended to play them the following classes as we sang our hello song and they would repeat the sentence: I feel happy when I listen to music.  The piano was drawn onto white paper but the black keys were srips of black paper the students glued onto their white keys. I let them choose the color of the paint they wanted for their hands. I painted each student´s hand and helped them stamp their pianos. We took around 3 classes to do all this. When the pianos were drying, I showed them a video of a little girl around their age playing the piano and they were mesme

 My little five-year olds are studying the letter P, so we made some pizza but with paper of course. I pre-cut small pieces of yellow paper for the cheesse and some small pieces of green paper for the oregano. In class, we cut red paper tomatoes and pepperoni, purple paper onions, and the kids drew mushrooms and cut them out. We practiced answering do you like pizza and repeated the names of all the toppings they added. They also practiced counting how many slices we had and also used their pizza to say, I'm hungry! They were very excited to take their pizza slices home to show their families.