Wrap a Cap

Objective

Recognize words that rhyme with cap (e.g., "Do cap and wrap rhyme?") and produce rhyme words (e.g., "Think of a word that rhymes with cap.").

Target Words:

Materials:

Overview
The children will play the "Wrap-a-Cap" game as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with cap, such as wrap, lap, clap, and sap.

Literacy Activities
Wrap a cap

Have the children sit in a circle with the bottle caps placed in the middle.
Teach the children the "Wrap a Cap" song.
Tell the children that when you start clapping they can choose a bottle cap then return to their place in the circle.
Clap until all the children have a bottle cap.
Sing the "Wrap a Cap" song together as the children try to wrap their caps with ribbon and put the caps in their laps before the song is over.
Once the song is over, clap as the children unwrap their caps, return them to the middle, and choose new ones.
Invite the children to tap their bottle caps on the desk or floor and change "wrap a cap" to "tap a cap" as they sing the song again.
Clap as the children change bottle caps again, then sing and act out one of the action words (the children will need two bottle caps to act out clap).
Repeat the activity as many times as desired.

More Practice
Produce words that rhyme with cap

Remind the children of the words they played with (cap, wrap, clap, tap).
Give a child a bottle cap to hold in their lap while they think of a word that rhymes with cap (support as needed).
After he or she thinks of a rhyming word, have the child pass the cap to the next child, and repeat until all of the children have had a turn to say a word that rhymes with cap.

Recognize rhyming words

Have the children repeat a set of two words (e.g., cap, wrap).
Ask the children to show you thumbs up with the words rhyme and thumbs down if the words do not rhyme (support as needed).
Repeat with other sets of words: (e.g., clap, gap; flap, map; tap, cat; nap, sap; trap, flap; snap, truck; strap, zap).

Everybody wrap a cap.
Wrap a cap.
Wrap a cap.
Everybody wrap a cap.
The cap goes in your lap!

Objective

Recognize and produce words that rhyme with cap.

Materials

Activity: Wrap a Cap

Have your child teach you the "Wrap a Cap" song, sung to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
Have each person participating choose a bottle cap and wrap it as you sing the "Wrap a Cap" song together.
With your child, think of additional action words that rhyme with wrap (e.g., unwrap, tap, clap, flap).
Insert one of the action words into the "Wrap a Cap" song and sing the song together while doing the action with the bottle cap.
Repeat with other action words that rhyme with tap, as desired.

Wrap-a-Cap-song