Page 3 - Moana

This is the way the sea is calm...
One, two, three, whoosh!
“Well done everyone, now it’s time to bring out the real parachute! And if we join in really well then it will be Nemo’s turn to go for a swim in the ocean!” The children hold the edges of the real parachute as you sing the song again and do the relevant actions.
Once you have been through the song with the parachute, place Nemo on top and repeat the song to make him jump high out of the water at the end. Tell the children that Nemo is lonely and so place up to nine other soft toys on top and repeat.
7. MUSICAL BUMPS: ‘Shiny’ performed by Jemaine Clement
a) Ask the children if they know the game Musical Bumps. Tell them that they’re going to
play a game a little bit like Musical Bumps and that if they can beat you to win, you will
give them all a Haribo treat.
b) Explain that they are going to be Moana and you are going to give them each a magical
stone (egg shaker).
c) When the music plays they must march their magical stones to Te Fiti (demonstrate as you
say this). When the music stops it means that Tamatoa the giant sea crab is coming. The children must hide (demonstrate jumping down and curling up and hiding as you say this) so Tamatoa can’t see or hear them and steal the magical stones. “If everyone hides really quickly when the music stops, you will all win a Haribo treat.”
d) “I am going to turn into the Tamatoa every time the music stops.”
e) Give each child a magical stone.
f) Play ‘Shiny’ and the children march around the room and shake their magical stones.
g) Pause the music and pretend to be Tamatoa. The children hide. You get grumpy because
they’ve managed to hide in time. “I’ll get you next time!” Try to be as silly as you can to
make the children laugh.
h) Repeat several times until you confess that the Moanas have beaten you as you haven’t
been able to find any of their magical stones! You cry and say “I want my mummy!”
i) Walk away and when you turn back you are no longer Tamatoa. Tell the children that you’ve turned back into Moana, congratulate them and tell them you will give them their
Haribo prize before you go home.
* If the children are mostly three then you may need to simplify by taking away the story and making it a simple game of musical statues with egg shakers where nobody gets out.
8. ACTION SONG OR POEM: ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’ by Traditional (alternative
lyrics for Moana)
The children are standing in a circle and holding hands. Ask the birthday girl if she would like to be Moana (if not ask them if they’d like a friend to be Moana with them or choose another child). The chosen child stands in the middle of the circle. The group sings the first verse and walks around Moana in a circle. * Birthday girls aged 3-4 will usually prefer to have a friend in the middle with them.
There was a princess long ago, long ago, long ago. There was a princess long ago. Long, long ago.
(Tell the children in the circle to lift their arms up to be the trees on Moana’s island.)
She lived on a beautiful island, a beautiful island, a beautiful island. She lived on a beautiful island. Long, long ago.
(Choose a volunteer to be Moana’s grandma, give them a magic stone (an egg shaker) and encourage them to go into the middle and give Moana the magic stone.)
Her grandma gave her a magic stone, a magic stone, a magic stone. Her grandma gave her a magic stone. Long, long ago.
(The grandma leaves the middle. The children in the circle lie down and go to sleep.)
The island started to fall asleep, to fall asleep, to fall asleep. The island started to fall asleep. Long, long ago.
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