Indian Day Activities for Elementary and Early Childhood Education

We selected in this post several Indian Day Activities for Elementary School, ready to print and apply to early graders in the classroom or as a homework assignment.

The Indian Day, April 19, was created by President Getúlio Vargas through decree-law 5540 of 1943, and recalls the day, in 1940, in the which several indigenous leaders of the continent decided to participate in the First Inter-American Indigenous Congress, held in Mexico. They had boycotted the opening days of the event, fearing that their demands would not be heard by "white men". During this congress, the Inter-American Institute of Indigenous Peoples was created, also based in Mexico, whose function is to ensure the rights of indigenous peoples in America. Brazil did not immediately adhere to the institute, but after the intervention of Marshal Rondon it presented its adhesion and instituted the Indian Day on April 19th.

See too:

• Reading, writing and counting – Os Indiozinhos
• Activities for the Indian Day – 1st and 2nd year

In schools across the country, teachers work this commemorative date and it was with this in mind that we selected these Indian Day Activities for Elementary School, check out:

Indian Day Activities for Elementary School

To work on this date, mainly in the child education and elementary School, we selected some tips and suggestions for the teacher's classes, check out:

• Coloring Pages: A great suggestion for early series;
• Text Production: A wonderful activity to work on creativity and imagination;
• Conversation and Reading Wheel;
• Making of Murals and Panels;
• Souvenir Making;
• Make an Indian headdress with the students;
• Working with clay and making pots and other utensils, painting them with indigenous motifs;
• Making necklaces with indigenous people with students;
• Singing indigenous songs;

Indian Day Activities for Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Tupi went fishing and found a side full of fish. What is the little fish that contains the initial letter of your name?

Complete with the missing letters:

Paint numbers red and letters blue

Link the drawing to the word and copy it in the box to the side:

Connect numbers 1 to 5 and find out who our friend is:

More in: 10 suggestions for Educational Activities

Indian Day Activities for Elementary School to print

Word and Crossword Hunting:

To color:

Music develops creativity, oral language, educates the voice and raises awareness:

Paint out drawings related to the Indians:

Cut and Assemble:

Complete with the missing consonants to form the name of the objects that are part of the indigenous community:

The little Indian went to the river and caught several little fish: Paint the amount of little fish that the brave Indian caught!

Also see: 12 Ideas for the Indian Day

Indian Day Activities for Elementary School: Murals and Panels

Indian Day Activities for Elementary School: Clay Painting

The Indians use clay and wood to make household items.

• Let's take clay, let the imagination go and make it. like the Indians: Dishes, plates, among other things;
• Then use your imagination to color (paint them).

For this activity we will need:

• Clay;
• Water;
• Gouache paint.

How to make:

• Let the children create objects out of clay. If it's too hard you can add some water.
• Leave them dry overnight.
• Distribute gouache paint to paint freely with a brush or finger.

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary School: Indian Assembly

• Raffle a student;
• Place it on a large sheet of KRAFT-type paper, newsprint, wrapping paper or computer sheet.
• Outline the student. Ask him to get up.
• The class works within the contour, making eyes, mouth, ears. Use colored paper, cloth, thread, pen, colored pencil and whatever else you want.
• At the wheel, ask the students to choose a name for the Indian. Make a token and fix it close to the Indian.

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary School – Walk in the forest

• The teacher takes the class to the patio, creating situations for the children to imitate the Indian in the forest, hunting, entering the river, dancing the rain dance, etc.
• The teacher must help the child with body movements to imitate these situations.

Example: Ask the child to lie down on his stomach, making arm and leg movements as if he were swimming.

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary School – Rain Dance

• Make a circle, where the children should jump and dance in circles, making the noise with their mouths. (UH…UH…. UH…)
• The teacher, with creativity based on these examples, can create various situations, such as hunting, climbing trees, among others.

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary School – Dead and Alive

• The teacher in the courtyard demonstrates the game to the children:
• when the teacher gives the order ALIVE, children must be standing. when you are DEAD children must bend down.
• The teacher gives the order, increasing the intensity of the movement, getting faster and faster.
• Whoever misses the move when the teacher gives the order is lost. And it goes out of the game.

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Party Favors Indian Day on EVA

Another really cool idea to work on this date is the making of party favors, check out some suggestions below:

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary School - Indian in the bag race

• For this Indian Day Activities, we will need:
• Large lineage bags, painting;
• The headdress that must have already been made by the children before; (Indium Headdress Molds);
• Characterize children with pictura and put the headdress on their head;

Activity development:

• The chosen children must enter the bag lined up next to each other.
• The teacher whistles and the children must jump into the bag to the marked line.
• The child who arrives first wins the race and the headdress;

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Activities Indian Day for Elementary School: Curumim goes to Oca

For this activity we will need ARCOS (Hula hoops).

Playing:

• Arrange the bows randomly across the floor. Start with the same number of participating children.
• The children must walk between the arches, at the teacher's signal “Curumim goes to Oca!!!” must enter the arch. Bows must be suppressed one by one each round.

Tip: Enter the closest arch. Pay attention to the teacher.

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Activities Indian Day for Elementary School: Hunting for the jaguar.

Playing:

• Randomly distribute the bows on the floor.
  
• Choose a child to catch (Indian) and the others will be jaguars.
  
• For the jaguar not to be caught, it must enter the burrow (bows). When the jaguar is caught, it becomes an Indian and the Indian becomes a jaguar.

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary School - Harvest Day

For this Indian Day Activities for Early Childhood Education, we will need chalk or ropes to demarcate

Step by step activity:

• Divide the children into two groups.
  
• Mark an exit line on each side of the space where the game will be played. The output lines must be arranged facing each other and between them a large space for running (can be used the back or side lines of a court).
  
• Each group must stand behind the start line, standing with one hand extended in front of them (the cassavas will be).
  
• The teacher must choose one of the children to start the game. She should go to the exit line of the opposite group and pull one of the “cassavas”. The chosen child must run trying to reach the partner who pulled him.
  
• If caught, the colleague becomes part of the “cassava plantation” on the opposite side.
  
• The game starts again with the one who was in the catcher status.
  
• The team whose “cassava plantation” is bigger wins!

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary and Early Childhood Education: Pareci Tribe's Play

Game:

• Children form a circle, with one of the participants in the middle.
• The goal is to try to get out of the wheel.
• When he does, everyone should run after him and try to catch him.
• The teacher must ensure that everyone is in the middle of the wheel at least once.

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Indian Day Activities for Elementary and Early Childhood Education: Bororó Tribe's Joke

For these activities we will need “Chalk”.

Game:

• Trace a path on the ground where children should walk on one foot.
• This path was taken by a huge snake. Start by making easy paths and keep making it difficult.
• Ask the children for help in building the paths.
• Each one can do his own and then try the other's.