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No toys on the pirate ship. Boing, boing, boing, boing. No toys on the pirate ship. Boing, boing, boing.
Repeat the song, but the group is holding the edges of the real parachute, moving it up and down to the pulse. “If everyone listens well we will put some toys on top.” Place one soft toy or finger puppet on top and sing:
One toy on the pirate ship. Boing, boing, boing, boing. One toy on the pirate ship. 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 (so there are up to about 20 all together) on top and skip to singing “Lots of toys on the pirate ship 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 pirates and you are going to give them
a musical treasure (egg shaker) each.
c) When the music plays the princesses must march their treasures to the royal palace and
the pirates must march their treasures to the pirate ship (demonstrate as you tell them). When the music stops it means the Evil Sea Witch is coming and so they must sit in their magic thrones (demonstrate jumping down to sit as you say this) for protection so the Evil Sea Witch can’t steal their treasures. “If everyone sits in their magic thrones really quickly when the music stops, you will all win a Haribo treat.”
d) “I am going to turn into the Evil Sea 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 Evil Sea Witch. The children jump down and sit
in 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 and pirates have beaten you and delivered the shakers to the royal palace and the pirate ship. You cry and say “I
want my mummy!”
i) Walk away and when you turn back you are no longer the Evil Sea Witch. Tell the
children that you’ve turned back into a princess/pirate, 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: ‘Sleeping Princesses and Pirates’ (sung to the traditional tune of ‘Sleeping Bunnies’) or ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’ by Traditional
3-4s only: Perform ‘Sleeping Princesses and Pirates’
“Who knows the sleeping bunnies song (the children will already know the song and how to play the game)? Well I’m going to teach you how princesses and pirates play ‘Sleeping Bunnies’. We’re all going to go to sleep and when we wake up, we are going to be pirates digging for treasure.”
Verse:
See the pirates sleeping, (the children lie down, pretending to sleep)
Till it's nearly noon.
Shall we wake them,
With a merry tune?
They're so still.
Are they ill? "Wake up little pirates! It’s time to dig for treasure"! (the children wake up)
Chorus:
Dig little pirates, dig, dig, dig, (digging actions to the pulse) Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig.
Dig little pirates, dig, dig, dig,
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