You will need
The Big Pancake, Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDCNLHRkXSU
Plastic plates, cups, frying pans,
saucers, card pancakes
Flat 2D shapes
Pancake batter and recipe– eggs/ flour/ milk/ butter/ water /oil and Frying pan
Read The Big Pancake
Enjoy the story
what might happen next?
Talk about the big pancake being a circle shape.
The pancake parlour, a role play activity
Cut out some cardboard circles of different sizes
Turn your front room or kitchen into a pancake parlour!
Put in circular objects, such as dolly's plates, frying pans, cups, other round kitchen objects, the cut out cardboard pancakes and so on.
Take turns to be the ‘pancake chefs, then the customer. Buy and sell your different sized pancakes
Shape, a number activity
The circle
Talk about circles. Use words such as ‘round’. Find a variety of different sized circles in the room together and put them on the table. Your "circle table"
Talk about their size and colour and the fact that they are all circles
Count your circles, count the little ones, count the big ones. Add other shapes to your table and mix them up. Play a game of "First to grab a circle..." How many did you win?
The Big Pancake, a cooking activity
Make pancakes, recipe above
Use mathematical language, for example:
How many eggs have we cracked? Should we add more milk? Is yours bigger than mine? What shape is it?
If you're feeling brave try to toss them!
Enjoy your pancakes for tea.
5 Currant Buns, a music activitySing this counting rhyme together. Find 5 round things to be 5 round currant buns. Count how many buns are left after each verse.
A wellbeing activity, happiness and sharing
Round and Round the Garden
Enjoy this tickling rhyme!
Talk together about what makes us laugh. Share feelings and ideas about laughing and happiness.
If you have other children talk about sharing while playing in the pancake parlour.
Sing the pancake rhyme – Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdg50KzCR9w
You could also blow some bubbles with bubble liquid
You could bang on a round drum to the rhyme
You could play some ball games with round balls
Some Objectives which will be covered for this age range in these activities
Objective: to listen to a story with growing interest.
Activity: read The Big Pancake – predict what might happen.
Objective: to recognise a circle and learn some of its properties.
Activity: talk about the circle, use examples of the shape. Find circles around the room
Objective: to try out a range of tools and talk about what is happening.
Activity: making pancakes
Objective: speak about specific shape, using words like "more" "another one"
Activity: talk about our circles
Objective: show an interest in the sounds of a drum.
Activity: additional drumming to rhyme