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The First Fire

Thunder Boys (Toddlers)

Age Groups: Toddlers
Skills: Connection-Making, Global Citizenship, Gross Motor, Perception, Stories

Materials

  • None

Instructions

  • Let’s pretend to be the Thunder Boys from the Cherokee story “The First Fire."
  • Have you ever heard thunder in the sky? Thunder is loud!
  • Let’s clap our hands and stamp our feet to sound like thunder. Let’s shoot lightning from our hands, KABOOM!

Vocabulary

Thunder - the sound that is heard after a flash of lightning
Loud - a big sound
Clap - to slap the hands together
Stamp - to strike heavily with the foot