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Dig, dig, dig. X 2
“This time you can be a princess or a knight and when we wake we’re going to ride our horses.”
Verse:
See the princesses 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 princesses and knights! It’s time to ride your horses"! (the children wake up)
Chorus:
Gallop little princesses, gallop, gallop, gallop, (digging actions to the pulse) Gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop.
Gallop little princesses, gallop, gallop, gallop,
Gallop, gallop, gallop. X 2
If you need to perform the actions to encourage the children then please do so. Otherwise, you should clap along as you sing the chorus to help maintain energy. Repeat several times, using the children’s suggestions for actions. E.g. “Walk the plank, walk the plank,” and, “Skip little princesses, skip, skip, skip.”
5-6s only: Perform ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’
* This is slightly different to ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’ in the princess plan so please read carefully.
The children are standing in a circle and holding hands. Ask the birthday girl (if applicable) if they would like to be the special princess (if they don’t, 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.
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 pirate sword, make sure to give them the prop)
A naughty pirate cast a spell, cast a spell, cast a spell.
A naughty pirate cast a spell. 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.
(Choose one boy or girl to ‘sail’ an imaginary boat, using a coloured scarf as the flag, around the outside of the circle, you demonstrate first by holding the scarf up high and running around the circle. If there is not much space you can run around the inside of the circle.)
A friendly pirate came sailing by, sailing by, sailing by. A friendly pirate came sailing by. Long, long ago.
(friendly pirate kisses princess who wakes up)
He/she kissed her hand to wake her up, wake her up, wake her up. He/she kissed her hand to wake her up. Long, long ago.
All the children hold hands with a partner (including the friendly pirate and princess who hold hands with each other) and dance around in a circle as you sing the last verse two
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