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No toys on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing, boing.
No toys on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing.
Repeat the song, but the group holds the edges of the real parachute, moving it up and down to the pulse. “If everyone listens well I will put some toys on top.” Place one soft toy or finger puppet on top and sing:
One toy on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing, boing. One toy on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing.
Add a second toy on top and sing “Two toys...” Repeat for up to ten toys. Then place as many soft toys and finger puppets as you have on top (so there are up to about 20 all together) and skip to singing “Lots of toys on the bouncing castle etc.”. Don’t worry if they fall off. They always do!
7. MUSICAL BUMPS: ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift
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 princesses and you are going to give them a musical
treasure (egg shaker) each.
c) When the music plays they must march their treasures to the royal palace (demonstrate
as you tell them). When the music stops it means the naughty witch is coming and so they must sit on their magic thrones (demonstrate jumping down to sit as you say this) for protection so the witch can’t steal their treasures. “If everyone sits on their magic thrones really quickly when the music stops, you will all win a Haribo treat.”
d) “I am going to turn into the naughty witch every time the music stops.”
e) Give each child a musical treasure.
f) Play ‘Shake it Off’ and the children march around the room and shake their musical
treasures.
g) Pause the music and pretend to be the naughty witch. The children jump down and sit
on their magic thrones. You get grumpy because they’ve managed to escape you. “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 princesses have beaten you and delivered
the shakers to the royal palace. You cry and say “I want my mummy!”
i) Walk away and when you turn back you are no longer the naughty witch. Tell the children that you’ve turned back into a princess, congratulate them and tell them you will give
them their Haribo prize before you go home.
N.B: 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
“Put your hand up if you can name a Disney princess.” Choose a few volunteers to name a Disney princess. “Today we’re going to act out the story of Sleeping Beauty.” The children are standing in a circle and holding hands. Ask the birthday girl if she would like to be the special princess (if not ask them if they’d like a friend to be the princess with them or choose another child) and give her a tiara to wear. The chosen child stands in the middle of the circle. The group sings the first verse and walks around the princess in a circle.
N.B: 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.
(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 boy or girl to leave the circle, go into the middle and cast a spell on the princess using a magic wand)
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