Keeping Malcreides Ready
Paint boxes (in different colors) arranged in a circle.
The children paint a vowel in each box (a, e, i, o, u). All other letters are in the middle of the circle. They can be written in the middle or the middle is free and stands symbolically for the other letters.
One child after another jumps his name. For this, the children start in the middle. For example, Ben hops up in the middle (for the B), then into the box with the (vocal e) and then back in the middle (for the n).
So any words can be hopped e.g. traffic lights, trampoline, garden, grandma.