Bedtime Routine Charades

Introduction

Q: What time did you wake up this morning? What time did you go to bed last night?
A: Count the hours between the time you went to bed and woke up. It's okay to use your fingers if you want to! If your count is between 9 and 12 hours, you did a great job recharging! If you did not sleep between 9 and 12 hours last night, make it your goal to sleep that long each night for the rest of the week!

One thing you can do to get a really good night's sleep is to have a bedtime routine that begins about an hour before your bedtime. This activity is similar to charades, and will help you learn how to make a bedtime routine so you can get enough sleep to restore your energy for the next day. One team acts out a word or a phrase without talking, and the opposing team guesses the word or phrase.  

Activity Instructions

1. Divide kids into 2 teams.
2. Select a volunteer from each team to be a point keeper who will track the correct guesses.
3. Teams stand in a horizontal (side to side) line and face each other.
4. Pick a team to act first (the acting team). The other team will be the guessing team.
5. Draw a Bedtime Routine card and show to the kids on the acting team. 
6. Say, “GO!” and the “acting” team will act out the action on the given card.
7. The guessing team huddles together to come up with one answer as to what the acting team is currently acting out.
8. When, as a team, the guessing team decides their answer, they all do the actions along with the acting team. Leader calls on 1 person to give the answer.
9. If the answer is incorrect the guessing team has 2 more tries to get the right answer.
10. Once the action on the card is known, leader reads the fit tip on the action card aloud then places the card on the floor to create a line of cards to represent a bedtime routine.
11. Alternate charades between teams until all cards have been used.
12. Leader leads the kids in reading the bedtime routine sequence aloud.

Reflections

Turn and talk with the person next to you. Tell each other what you will do for your bedtime routine. Be sure to tell them what time you will start your routine.

Having a bedtime routine helps you sleep better so you can recharge your energy.

Challenge

Make up your own bedtime routine tonight.