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

 My five-year-olds have been practicing playground vocabulary. And here's how we made our paper I-can-climb craft. They first folded a white sheet in the middle and drew their playgrounds. Then, we cut a strip of paper in any color, drew the monkey bar steps, and glued it onto the folded white paper. While the glue was drying, the kids drew themselves with their arms raised as if they were climbing something. They cut their drawings out and glued them onto the monkey bars. They were then able to share while practicing the sentence, I can climb. Pretty easy and simple.

I had seen this art project on Pinterest and recently a friend sent me the idea on Instagram. My first grade bilingual class is studying communities and one of the places was a park with slides and swings. I didn't want them to just draw a playground and I thought making a model of a playground on an online class would be too challenging, so I decided to make this paper project into a crazy wild playground. All the students needed were strips of paper which they could decorate if they wanted to and a cardboard or some other paper to glue the strips onto. They loved the idea and it was really easy for them. When they were done, they all got to show their swings and slides to the class. And here is my wild playground.