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Free Bears and Goldilocks Rhymes, Activities, and Printables

Goldilocks's hair	Goldilocks and Bears Writing	Bb Bears Coloring Page	Bear Pre-writing Worksheet	Asiatic Black Bear Coloring Page

Bears Finger Plays, Rhymes and Activities:

Have a Bring Your Bear to School Day
Plan a special day in which children bring their favorite stuffed bears to school. Plan activities that children do with their bears such as measuring, weighing, and sorting the bears, comparing and contrasting the bears, counting bears by twos, and tracing their bears. Let children prepare a special meal to eat with their bears, and have a teddy bear picnic outside. Children can write or dictate letters from their bears at the end of the day telling about the visit to school.

Let children make the movements to the rhyme with their teddy bears:

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Original Author Unknown

Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground
Teddy bear, teddy bear, reach up high
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the sky
Teddy bear, teddy bear, bend down low
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch your toes
Teddy bear, teddy bear, go upstairs
Teddy bear, teddy bear, say your prayers
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn out the light
Teddy bear, teddy bear, say goodnight

Bear Snack

What you need: Bread Banana Raisin Butter Sugar Cinnamon
What you do: Mix sugar with cinnamon. Toast bread lightly. Spread with butter while hot. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Slice banana and use one slice for the bear's nose. Place raisins for the eyes and one for the black nose. Finish the bear with two banana slices for the ears. Serve and enjoy!

Bear hibernation activities:

Bear Relay
Have bear relay race to gather food for the winter. Divide the class into two or three teams. Place different plastic food items behind a line on the floor. Taking turns each team member walks in a bear-walk to the line to collect a food for winter and returns it to his/her team.

The Bear
Original Author Unknown

Here is a cave, (Ball up hand into a fist.)
Inside is a bear. (Put thumb inside fist.)
Now he comes out
to get some fresh air. (Pop thumb out of fist.)

He stays all summer
In sunshine and heat.
He hunts in the forest
for berries to eat. (Move thumb in circle.)

When snow starts to fall,
He hurries inside
His warm little cave,
and there he will hide. (Put thumb back inside fist.)

Snow covers the cave
Like a fluffy white rug.
Inside the bear sleeps
all cozy and snug. (Cover fist with other hand.)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Books:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett	Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Picture Puffin Books)	Goldilocks And The Three Bears	Goldie and the Three Bears	The Three Bears (Little Golden Book)	Goldilocks Returns

Compare and Contrast Goldilocks Stories

What you need:
An assortment of Goldilocks and the Three Bears themed stories
Butcher paper
Thick black marker
Tape

What you do:
Read an assortment of books that retell the Goldilocks and the Three Bears folktale in different ways, and with an assortment of illustration styles. Choose two books to compare and contrast with children. Draw a large Venn diagram on butcher paper and tape it to the wall. Ask children to volunteer their ideas about what is the same and what is different about the two stories. Write responses in the correct corresponding areas of the diagram.