EASE: Unit 3

• Have students crumple lots of sheets of newspaper (or grocery store flyers, or large sheets of tissue paper).

• Put the crumpled balls in bowls, boxes or bags.

Each student chooses one knee-high stocking

Invite the students to explore the stockings, for example:

• stretch them
• put them on their hands and their arms
• wiggle their fingers inside
• look through them

Working in partners, one student holds the stocking open with two hands and the other student stuffs the newsprint balls into the stocking until it is pretty full.

Tie the end of the stocking so the newspaper won’t fall out.

(This might be a grown-up job, as necessary.)

Partners switch roles — i.e., switch who was holding and who was stuffing —  and stuff the other students’ stocking.