teaching foreign language to K-2?

I volunteered to the PTA (what was I thinking?) to assist with a foreign language club they're running after school for six weeks at my son's elementary. The K-2 groups will be doing a 3 week intro to one language, then switching to another language for another 3 week intro (one class per week). So we just need to come up with three lessons for one language, and we'll teach that same lesson plan again to another K-2 group. Italian, in this case. This is only the second year of the program, so there's not a lot of precedent to fall back on, and I don't get the impression my instructor has actually taught anything before.

I am assisting, although one of the six weeks I will be running the class as instructor has a conflict. I have studied the language we're teaching, and although I don't consider my self fluent, I feel competent enough to teach a K-2 group for one hour. It is a bit more than I thought I was getting myself into, but isn't that always the case?

I'll be having a meeting later this week with instructor, and while I plan to defer to her lesson plan overall, I would like to have some ideas to bring to the discussion, especially as I will be doing one class on my own. As the age group is young and some not reading yet, they are encouraging us to do projects, crafts, hands-on type of stuff, which my instructor commented was not really her strong point.

Beyond coloring a flag and a map outline, anyone have any ideas, either crafts or teaching tips?

Thanks in advance,

-Karen, mom to Henry 5 and William 17 months-
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