Folklore Activities for Kindergarten and Elementary School

We selected in this post several Folklore Activities, ready to print and apply in the classroom or as a homework assignment.

What is folklore? It is the set of traditions, knowledge and beliefs of a people, which manifests itself in different ways… Beings of the popular imagination. They are fantastic beings that have some magical characteristic and/or are protectors of our world

Let's meet some popular folklore characters:

Boitatá:

• Fire snake, which protects the fields

Head:

• This ugly old woman appears at night to scare and take the naughty children

Saci Pererê:

• Agile, mischievous and playful, he is always readying this naughty boy

Caipora:

• is the protective spirit of forest animals

Werewolf

• Half animal half human, howling at the moon, appears at crossroads on full moon nights

Curupira

• It is the protector of the forest and all animals

Folklore Activities

To work on this very important commemorative date, we have selected some suggestions for working in the classroom with students:

• Produce texts about folklore (individually or collectively);
• Parlendas, Guesses etc;
• Coloring pages with characters from our folklore;
• Making souvenirs with students;
• Making of murals and panels in the classroom;
• Conversation Wheel;
• Plays and Dynamics;
• Theater/Journal;
• And much more.

Folk activities to print

Connect folk characters to their names:

Complete the names, then copy them

Write sentences with the drawings:

We also recommend: Folklore Album.

Folk coloring activities

Curupira:

Head:

Boto:

Saci, Headless Mule, and Cascão:

I said:

Mermaid

Headless mule:

Folklore Activities for Kindergarten and Early Series

Let's write a story:

Let's complete the names of folklore characters using only the vowels:

Let's help Saci find his whirlpool:

Let's help the gang find the saci:

Looks like Saci's been up to it.

Do you know any of these toys? Color them.

Folklore Activities – Folk Games and Plays 

• tag: this game involves a lot of physical activity. One child must run and touch another. The affected child has to do the same.
• Hide and seek: the goal is to hide and not be found by the child you are looking for. The child who is to look for must keep his eyes covered and count to a certain number while the others hide. To win, the kid you're looking for must find all the hidden ones and run to the base.
• Marble: colored and made of glass, they are thrown on the dirt floor by the boys. The objective is to hit the opponent's ball to gain points or the teammate's own ball.
• rag doll: made by mothers and grandmothers, they are used in games by girls to simulate children belonging to an imaginary family.
• Flying kites: kites, also known as kites, are made of wooden sticks and paper. Colored, they are pranced (released) by the boys on windy days. With one line, the boys can direct and juggle in the sky.
• slingshot: also known as bodoques, they are made of wood and rubber branches. Boys use stones to hit targets (cans, bottles and other objects).
• Top: the top game is still very successful, especially in the interior regions of Brazil. Made of wood, the tops are rotated on the ground using a string that is wound and pulled with force. Many children paint their tops. To make the game more exciting, many boys juggle tops as they spin. The best known is to hold the top in the palm of your hand while it is running.
• Collective games with music, challenges, rhymes and interaction: examples: “Lollipop that beats, beats”, “Job's slaves”, “Mouth of oven”, “Passa ring”, “Tri-cornered hat” and “Hot potato”.

Folklore Activities – Reading Parlendas

• was a witch
  At midnight
  in a haunted castle
  with a knife in hand
  Buttering the bread.
• Potato when it is born
  spreads out on the floor.
  little girl when she sleeps
  put your hand on your heart.

• Noon,
  monkey whistles,
  pan on fire,
  Empty belly.

• One, two, beans and rice,
  Three, four, beans on the plate,
  five, six, speak english,
  seven, eight, eat biscuits,
  Nine, ten, eating pastries.

• Tomorrow is Sunday, pipe foot.
  The pipe is made of gold, it hits the bull.
  The bull is brave, hits us.
  We are weak, fall into the hole.
  The hole is deep, the world is over.

• uni, duni, have,
  Salami, porridge,
  A colored ice cream,
  The chosen one was you!

• who whispers,
  the tail sticks out,
  Eat bread
  With gecko.

• An elephant bothers a lot of people...
  Two elephants… it bothers, it bothers a lot of people…
  Three elephants… tease, tease, tease a lot of people…
  Four elephants tease, tease, tease, tease a lot more…
  (to be continued…).

• I'm small,
  of the thick leg,
  Short dress,
  Dad doesn't like it.

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Text about folklore to print