Teaching Prepositions Activity

This is a simple but fun activity to teach prepositions.
All you need is a tie and a set of instructions.
First, demonstrate how to tie a tie in front of the class. To arouse the students' curiosity at this stage you might just stand in front of the class and without further explanation just take a tie from your pocket and put it on.
You might then pre-teach a few useful words:

- tie
- knot
- wide/narrow
- neck

At this point you can go through prepositions and make sure they're understood. Then maybe remove and tie up the tie again, giving the instructions as you do so:
- Put the tie around your neck; the wide end on the left and the wide end about 40 centimeters longer than the narrow end.
- Cross the ends near the top, the wide end over the narrow end.
- Hold the tie where the two ends meet with your left hand.
- Wrap the wide end under then over the narrow end above your left hand and pull the knot together.
- Fold the wide end under and through the loop around your neck and pull the knot together.
- Tuck the wide end through the loop at the front from the top.
- Tighten the knot then pull it up to your neck.
Next, of course, you give ties to your students and have them practice with the instructions.

Variations
There are plenty of variations here you can make:
one student reads whilst another ties the tie
introduce different kinds of tie knots with slightly different instructions
have a quick competition to see who has tied the best knot