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d) When they have the hang of it, tell them you are now watching to see if they can be really clever and remember all of the sounds and actions without your help.
e) Use lots of energy!
* Running time approx. 3 mins.
5. Fine motor skills: ‘Mermaid Tails’ written by Lucy Milan Davis and Sarah Moss
Click activity name to open YouTube video link.
“In some traditional tales there are creatures called mermaids. Let’s all become mermaids now!” Perform the rhyme four times using the movements shown in the video.
Mermaid tails go flip, flip, flip, flip,
Mermaid tails go flap, flap, flap, flap,
Mermaid tails go splish, splish, splish, splish,
Mermaid tails go splash, splash, splash, splash.
Mermaids, let’s go dive in the water! One, two, three, whoosh! * Running time approx. 2 mins.
6. Choreographed dance: ‘I’m a Believer’ performed by Smash Mouth Click activity name to open YouTube video link.
Teach the children the tricky moves first, then play the track and perform the dance all together, using the choreography from the video. During the instrumental, encourage the children to be the different characters from the action game played during ‘Introduce the Theme’.
*Running time approx. 5 mins.
7. Action song: ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’ (traditional)
“I wonder if anyone can tell me the name of the traditional tale where a princess falls asleep for a hundred years? That’s right, it’s ‘Sleeping Beauty!’”
The children are standing in a circle and holding hands. Choose a child to be the special princess and give him/her a tiara to wear. The chosen child stands in the middle of the circle. The group sings the first verse acapella and walks around the princess holding hands in a circle.
There was a princess long ago, long ago, long ago. There was a princess long ago. Long, long ago.
(children in the circle lift their arms up to be the walls of the tower)
She lived in a big high tower, big high tower, big high tower. She lived in a big high tower. Long, long ago.
(choose one child to leave the circle, go into the middle and cast a spell on the princess using a magic wand)
One day a witch waved her wand, waved her wand, waved her wand.
One day a witch waved her wand. Long, long ago.
(princess lies down and sleeps)
The princess slept for a hundred years, a hundred years, a hundred years. The princess slept for a hundred years. Long, long ago.
(children in the circle mime tall swaying trees)
A great big forest grew around, grew around, grew around. A great big forest grew around. Long, long ago.
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