The Toy Lesson

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Lesson:
Toys
General:
Time: 40 mins - 1 hour
Objectives: • Identifying and saying 8 different toys
• Reviewing colors
Structures: "What's this?" " What color is this?"
Target Vocab: toy, teddy bear, doll, blocks, robot, puppet, book, ball, balloon
Review Vocab: red, yellow, pink, green, purple, orange, blue
You will need to download:

Flashcards: teddy bear, doll, blocks, robot, puppet, book, ball, balloon
Printables: • Fun with toys! worksheet
• Toys Match and Color! worksheet
• Reader worksheet
• Warm Up & Wrap Up lesson sheet
Readers: Toys Play Time
Songs: The Rainbow Song
These can be downloaded at http://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html
You will also need:

• toys: teddy bear, doll, blocks, robot, puppet, book, ball, balloon (see point 1)
• a large cardboard box with arm holes cut in (to put the toys in and to play 'Feel in the box') (see
points 3 and 5)
• colored sticker dots or colored crayons (see point 7)
• large sheet of A3 paper (see point 7)
• some music to play for the "Musical Circle Touch" game (see point 4)
• CD / tape player / computer or something to play the song on
Notes:
This lesson gives your students some important vocabulary to use in their daily lives. They will be
able to identify some toys as well as count and describe them using colors.
IMPORTANT: This lesson plan reviews the colors so it should be taught after the Colors lesson plan.
You will also need to have some classroom toys, in particular a teddy bear, a doll, blocks, a robot, a
puppet, a book, a ball, balloons.
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Lesson Overview:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
1. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
New Learning and Practice:

1. Play "Hide and Find"
2. Play "Shout it Out"
3. Play "Fetch it"
4. Play "Musical Circle Touch"
5. Play "Feel in the box"
6. Review colors - Sing "The Rainbow Song"
7. Do the "Color Stickers" activity
8. Do the "Fun with toys!" worksheet
9. Read classroom reader "Toys Play Time"
10. Play "What's missing from the line up?"
Wrap Up:
1. Set Homework: "Toys Match and Color!" worksheet
2. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
Lesson Procedure:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
New Learning and Practice:

1. Play "Hide and Find"
Let's start off with a fun game. Before the class, hide the following toys around the
classroom (under chairs, in bookshelves, etc.): teddy bear, doll, blocks, robot, puppet, book,
ball, balloon. You can also add some more toys to this list if you wish. Also, make sure you

have printed the same flashcards as the toys you have hidden. You will need at least one
toy per student (if you have a lot of students you can use multiple blocks, balls and balloons,
so that each student has at least one toy to find).
Have all of your students sit down. Give each one a toy flashcard and tell them that hidden
around the room are some toys which they have to find. Model the activity, by showing one
toy flashcard (e.g. a picture of a doll) - wander around the room looking in different places
until you have found a toy doll. Now, let everyone get up and search around for their toy
and then sit down again in their place with the toy.
Once all the toys have been found go around the class and have each student hold up the
toy they have found. For each toy say and chorus the toy word (e.g. Teacher: "a ball";
Students "a ball").
Next, collect up the flashcards and get each student to hide their toy again - but in a
different place. Now, give out the flashcards again, but make sure each student has a
different toy flashcard to the one they had before. Let everyone go off to search for their
toy, and as before, chorus each toy once they have all been found.
You can play this game a few times but finish before your students start to lose interest.
2. Play "Shout it Out"

Have all of your students sit down. Start by holding up each
toy and eliciting, chorusing and passing the toy around (when
passing make sure each student says the word for the toy as
they pass it).
Next put all of the toys in a box and have everyone close their
eyes. Pull out a toy and say "Open your eyes" - everyone must open their eyes and shout
out the word for toy that you are holding. Play this for all of the toys.

3. Play "Fetch it"

Throw all of the toys around the classroom and place the box at the
front of the class. Say to one student "Please fetch the robot".
That student gets up, goes to the robot, picks it up and takes it over
to the box and drops it in. Then have a different student for
another toy. Keep going until all of the toys are in the box.
4. Play "Musical Circle Touch"

Sit all of your students in a circle and place the toys
in the center of the circle. Play some music on your
CD player and have students pass a ball or bean bag
around the circle. Stop the music. Say to the
student holding the ball "Touch the teddy bear!" -
and the student does so. Start playing the music
and do the same thing so that all of your students
have touched a toy.
5. Play "Feel in the box"

This is a fun activity. You will need a big box with two round holes
two holes cut in it - big enough for your students to put their
arms in. Get everyone to close their eyes as you put a toy in the
upturned box. Model first: put your arms through the holes and
feel the toy. Pull a face to show you are feeling something and
don't know what it is. Then finally, look happy and say "It's a
puppet!" and lift up the box to show everyone what you have
found.
Let each student have a go. Also, a great idea is to also add some other objects that
students have studied in a previous lesson (e.g. a crayon, plastic fruit, plastic animals, etc.) -
this will add an element of surprise and allow for vocab review.
6. Review colors - Sing "The Rainbow Song"

Your students will have sung this song in previous lessons so
they should be familiar with it. Play and sing the song with
everybody pointing at colors as you sing (either colored
origami, the song poster or colors on the walls around the
room).

Lyrics for "The Rainbow Song" Gestures for "The Rainbow Song"
Verse 1: There are a number of activities you can do as you

Red and yellow and pink and green, sing along to the song:
Purple and orange and blue.
I can sing a rainbow, • Simply pat your knees or clap in time with
Sing a rainbow, the music as you sing the song.
Sing a rainbow too. • Give each student a print out of the
Rainbow Song song poster. As they sing
Verse 2: along they touch each color or picture.
Red apples and yellow sun, • Give out the 7 colors to students (colored
Pink flowers in the green grass. paper, origami paper, colored blocks,
Purple grapes and orange carrots, colored pencils – anything will do) and
A rainbow high in the blue sky. have students touch the colors in time
with the song.
Verse3: • Put colored paper up around the walls of
Red and yellow and pink and green, the classroom. Have all of your students
Purple and orange and blue. point to each color as it is sung.
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too.
7. Do the "Color Stickers" activity

For this activity you need lots of colored sticker circles which
can easily be found in most stationery shops. If you can't get
hold of some, using colored crayons will also do.
First, put up a large sheet of paper (ideally A3) on the wall with
columns draw on it. At the top of each column draw a large
colored dot - each column with a different colored dot. It
should look like this:

Quickly chorus through the colors on this sheet. Then give out a sheet of colored stickers to
each student. Tell them they are going to look at all the toys and for each color they see
they will go up to the poster and put a colored dot in the correct column (or draw a dot with
their crayon). So for example, a student looking at a doll may see a pink dress, red shoes
and green eyes, so s/he will go up to the poster and stick on red, pink and green dots. Then
s/he will find another toy to put up colors.
Keep going until students have filled the sheet with dots. Get everybody to sit down and
look at the poster. Talk about the colors and ask which color has the most and least dots.
8. Do the "Fun with toys!" worksheet

This worksheet carries on straight from the last activity (toys
and colors). Give out the worksheets. For younger students
who can't read, elicit the first toy (a teddy bear) and then read
the sentence under the picture "a yellow teddy bear". Have
everyone take out their yellow crayons and color the teddy bear
picture. Carry on like this for all of the pictures. When finished,
get each student to show the class their work, ask a question
(e.g. what color is the doll?) and give a round of applause.
9. Read classroom reader "Toys Play Time"

Now that the toys and colors vocabulary has been practiced we can move onto a fun, simple
story which uses the target vocab. Before class, download and print off the reader "Toys
Play Time" from our website. As you go through each page, point to the different toys and
ask for the students to tell you what they are and what colors they see, for example:
Teacher: (pointing on page 3) Look, what toy is this?

Students: A teddy bear!
Teacher: Yes, that's right! And what color is it?
Students: Brown!
Teacher: Yes, a brown teddy bear! And what is he playing with?
(pointing at the balloon)
Students: A balloon!
Teacher: Yes, good job! And what color is the balloon?
Students: Red!
Continue through the reader, eliciting different objects and colors.
After reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and read through the
story one more time (without stopping for questions, etc.) as students color the objects
from the story. Check that everyone is using the correct colors.

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Alternatively, watch our video version of the reader on our website.
10. Play "What's missing from the line up?"

Let's finish with a fun game which will review vocab from this lesson. Get everyone sitting
down and place all of the toys in front of you in a line. Say "Close your eyes". Make sure
everyone has their eyes closed and covered with their hands (model this so everyone can
see what to do). Quickly take a toy away from the line up and hide it behind your back. Say
"Open your eyes". Nod towards the space where a toy was and say "What's missing?".
Encourage the students to shout out the answer.
The first student with the correct answer can now take over. Have him/her come to the
front of the class. Get everyone to close their eyes as the student selects a toy and hides it
behind his/her back. Continue this game until everyone has had a go.
Wrap Up:
1. Assign Homework: "Toys Match and Color!" worksheet.
2. Wrap up the lesson with some ideas from our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
• All flashcards, worksheets, craft sheets, songs and readers used in this
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plans.html

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New Learning and Practice:

New Learning and Practice:

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2. Play "Shout it Out"

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3. Play "Fetch it"

4. Play "Musical Circle Touch"

5. Play "Feel in the box"

6. Review colors - Sing "The Rainbow Song"

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Verse 1: There are a number of activities you can do as you

7. Do the "Color Stickers" activity

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8. Do the "Fun with toys!" worksheet

9. Read classroom reader "Toys Play Time"

Teacher: (pointing on page 3) Look, what toy is this?

Continue through the reader, eliciting different objects and colors.

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Alternatively, watch our video version of the reader on our website.

10. Play "What's missing from the line up?"

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• More free Lesson Plans are available at eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-

Please report any mistakes at http://www.eslkidstuff.com/contact.htm

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