Encourage children to sing and act out the construction movement rhyme (tune: this the way…….)

 

This is the way we hammer nails

Hammer nails, hammer nails 

This is the way we hammer nails

On the building site

Continue with:

Saw the wood

Turn the screw

Stack the bricks

Paint the walls

 

• Make cardboard tool cut outs, by cutting out tool shapes from card.  Paint or decorate the cut out with markers.  Add to a shoebox tool box.

• Make some glitter pictures.  Drizzle paint with a brush, or children can use their fingers.  Sprinkle the glitter (sawdust) over the glue before it dries out.  Shake off excess.  Let it dry.

• Make a tool collage by cutting out pictures from magazines (hardware store or department store flyers) of tools and other construction equipment.

• Play safely with hammer and nails.  Alternatively, hammer plastic golf tees into a bucket of sand with plastic hammer.