Author(s): Liz Wilmes

Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

Play wiggle, and laugh as you introduce young children to parachute play.
Using a parachute or large bed sheet, start with the Basic Sessions to teach young children how to hold and move the chute. Now you're ready to expand into Warm-Up Exercises, play Holiday, Seasonal, and Everyday Games, and relax with Cool-Down Activities. Over 150 games which you and your children will enjoy playing inside and outside.
The original Parachute Play book sold over 100,000 copies. Now it is totally updated, expanded, and revised. All new illustrations make this a light, airy, fun-to-use book with young children ages 3-"8.
Sampling of Contents
Introduction
" What is Parachute Play?
" Using Parachute Play
" Keeping Things Under Control
Warm-Up Exercises
" Balloon Float
" Parachute Pulls
" Ripples & Waves
" Number Snap
8 Basic Sessions
Everyday Games
" Happy Birthday
" Window Washer
" Parachute "Hello"
" Tootsie Roll
" Tummy Tag
" Parachute Rollerball
Holiday & Seasonal Games
" Parachute Freeze
" Easter Egg Hunt
" Wiggle Worm
" Red, White, and Blue
" Turkey Feathers
" Jingle Bells
Cool Down Activities
" Breathe & Wave
" Rag Doll
" Good Bye Balloons
" Rock-A-Bye Baby
" Are You Sleeping?
" Shh!
Liz and Dick Wilmes publish Building Blocks newspaper and live in Elgin, Illinois. Since the early 1980's they have written and published 27 activity books for preschool children.
Janet McDonnell has illustrated ten early childhood books for Building Blocks. She lives with her husband and family in Arlington Heights, Illinois.