Super Bowl Games- Read.Explore.Learn

I went hunting for a Super Bowl related book to share with you this week and came across a wonderful book by Aaron Reynold's called Buffalo Wings. We really loved this tale and the super bowl games that I created to go with it.

Buffalo Wings is the tale of some farm animals have decided to watch the super bowl. They "borrow" the farmer's television and put together a wonderful array of snacks including quackamole. The table looks like it is still missing something according to some of the animals. The rooster looks through the farmer's wife's cookbook and finds buffalo wings. They sounds great to him as he skims through some of the ingredients.

He finds that he is missing what he thinks is the main ingredient. What does he think he needs? Well, buffalo of course. He searches through all kinds of places with buffalo in their names and doesn't find any.  When he finally finds some, he realizes that they don't have wings.  That is when he reads the recipe rather than skimming it and find outs the real main ingredient. Yikes!

The rooster ends up trying the snacks the buffalo has prepared to have while they watch Super Bowl  game and he  loves them even better than he thought he would like their wings. Their hush puppies are so amazing he makes them for the other animals when he and the buffaloes return to the farm.

This cute book ends up with a farm animal football game and fun snacks. It is such fun!


What did we do to explore this book?
Football Field Number Identification Game

JDaniel and I made penalty markers out of yellow bandannas filled with red beans. Then we spread out a really cool football field themed tablecloth from Party City on our deck, we were ready to play.

The goal of the game was to toss the penalty flag onto the tablecloth and read the number that it landed closest too. I told JDaniel that he just had to tell me the larger white number that was closest to his penalty flag. He had a little trouble with that a first, but as we played he did a much better job.

After awhile I told him about the large and small  white lines between the numbers. Then I had him help me find the exact number that my penalty flag was closest too.

This was more of an exploration of numbers. I think when he gets a little older he will be able to tell me the number exactly on his own.

If your children aren't ready to work on numbers, they could easily try to get their penalty flag onto one of  the footballs or the NFL emblems on the tablecloth.  It would help them work on eye- hand coordination and practice underhand throws.


Football Number Sequence Game

JDaniel was asked to put these numeric football in number order. He did a good job at starting the number sequence. He did well at completing it too. I wasn't able to fit the whole line of footballs into a picture that didn't have the numbers appearing teeny tiny. This picture shows just the first four numbers for that reason.

Tip: I had tried to use white crayon to write the numbers on these footballs, but the numbers were too hard to read. I then wrote the numbers in black marker on top of them. I should have used a black marker in the first place.

Football Number Dice Roll

JDaniel got to turn over a football when the number on it came up on the dice. I chose dice that had dots on them so he could count them to find the total number. With older children I might give them dice that have numbers on them.

It took awhile to roll the numbers needed to turn all the footballs over.