Pinning
Using a giant push pin to poke holes from the back of the craft will give the lemon some texture. It's a good fine motor activity too!
Folding
Concertina fold the legs and arms for a fun stretchy effect! Encourage them to persist - it's a worthwhile technique to master for future craft projects and independent design-and-make tasks.
Give your students a verbal prompt to help them remember the movement - e.g. fold back, flip, fold back, flip, fold back, flip....
Demonstrating with a large piece of paper will help as well as having them fold flat on the table and one step at a time.
You can apply these techniques to any paper craft project!
I'd love to share with you a fast-prep language and listening game you may like to play with your students too! It's perfect for a lesson transition, brain break or as a literacy based warm up. Your students will listen to words, repeat them back to you and identify 1 or 2 syllables.
Language and Listening Game for Syllables: Lemon Lime
- print the lemon and lime visual to help explain and engage your students in an introduction to the game (optional)
- ask students to clap twice (and repeat word back to you) if they hear a word with 2 syllables - as in lemon
- ask students to clap once if they hear a word with one syllable
- call word at random and help students identify the number of syllables if needed
Some 2 Syllable Words
- lemon
- zebra
- zigzag
- velvet
- belong
- ankle
- thunder
- quiet
- vivid
- exit
- whisper
- playful
- daytime
- today
- crayon
- trying
Some 1 Syllable Words
- lime
- ant
- snap
- ten
- desk
- sand
- milk
- flag
- swim
- next
- wing
- shell
- brain
- snail
- cake
- frog
These words are also suitable for early reading if you'd like to write them as you say them for your students.
You could also:
- brainstorm some adjectives for lemons and make a class chart
- challenge students to think of adjectives that start with l for an interesting subset on the list - lovely, little, light, lustrous, luminous, lively and luscious perhaps
- use the lemon/lime visuals for a math based movement game on left/right (lemon on the left, lime on the right)
- read some books about fruits and seeds