Circle Time/Group Activities

[sunnydays]

My kids are all between 1 and 3 (and my 4 year old son) and some of their favourite games are: sleeping bunnies (they could play this all day), simon says (I expand this and they hop like bunnies, slither like snakes etc), red light green light, rolling a ball to each other in a circle, ring around the rosie (once they do it a few times they get it and they love it), and for circle time anything that involves a puppet show is a hit...I get the puppets to teach numbers, shapes, etc.

[Littledragon]

My kids are all between 1 and 3 (and my 4 year old son) and some of their favourite games are: sleeping bunnies (they could play this all day), simon says (I expand this and they hop like bunnies, slither like snakes etc), red light green light, rolling a ball to each other in a circle, ring around the rosie (once they do it a few times they get it and they love it), and for circle time anything that involves a puppet show is a hit...I get the puppets to teach numbers, shapes, etc.

My kids are all between the ages of 1 and 3 as well, but I have such a hard time imagining my 16 month old and 13 month old following directions like that. How do you do it? What is sleeping bunnies? What do you do with the puppets to teach?

[Inspired by Reggio]

With puppets ~ my crew love 'finger puppets' cause then they can each hold on of the 5 puppets cause most finger puppet songs are about 5 of something

5 little monkey's jumping on the bed or swinging from a tree
5 Ducks went out to play
1 Elephant went out to play on a spiders web on day