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room like Fairy Unicorn. Pause the music sporadically and the children jump down to Fairy Land to rescue someone. Point out children who are jumping down quickly. At the end of the game, congratulate the children on doing a great job and tell them they’ve all won some magic sparkles that you will give them at the end of the party.
18. PARACHUTE ACTIVITY WITH HIDING: ‘Sing a Rainbow’ written by Arthur Hamilton “Can anyone tell me what colour my parachute is? Yes, that’s right, it has lots of different colours. I call it my rainbow parachute! And now we’re going to turn it into a real rainbow and the way we do that is by lifting it as high as we can into the sky! But first we must practice the special rainbow song.”
Sing the song acapella as you move the ‘imaginary’ parachute from side to side to the pulse, except for each time you sing “rainbow” when you lift the ‘imaginary’ parachute up high. Simply start singing and doing the actions and the children will naturally copy you.
Repeat the song and actions with the real parachute. Next, choose two or three children (including the birthday child) to be unicorns and curl up and hide underneath the ‘rainbow’ (parachute). Repeat the song and for each, “rainbow” you reveal the hidden children. Repeat until every child has had a turn. Once the game has been played a couple of times, encourage the children to sing the words with you- they will likely know the words already! If you have a party assistant or if there is a willing parent nearby, ask them to hold the opposite end of the parachute and encourage the children to all go under together as you sing the song one final time.
NB: you should only sing the lyrics below and not the entire ‘Sing a Rainbow’ song.
Red and yellow and pink and green, Orange and purple and blue.
I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, Sing a rainbow too.
19. ACTION SONG OR POEM TWO: ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ performed by Lucy Sparkles & Friends
“To be real unicorns you have to be very clever so now we’re going to do the tricky version of ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ to see just how big and strong your brains are!” Play the track and perform the actions indicated by the lyrics. Don’t forget to sing along and remind the children when to use their “thinking voices”. See if you can catch anyone out!
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, And eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
20. MAKE A MAGIC BIRTHDAY CAKE*: ‘Chop, Chop’ by Traditional and ‘Happy Birthday’ by Traditional
Tell the children that it’s almost time for bubbles but first they must make a magic birthday cake for the birthday child! Choose some volunteers to tell you which ingredients they would like to put in the magic birthday cake. Place the suggested ingredients onto your chopping board (flat palm facing up). Chop them with your knife (other hand) to the pulse as you say the first two lines of the poem. Mime putting the ingredients into the mixing bowl on the third line and repeat the chopping action again for the fourth line. Pretend to stir the mixture for the fifth line then have a cheeky taste!
Chop, chop, choppity chop,
Chop off the bottom and chop off the top. What we have left we will put in the pot. Chop, chop, choppity chop.
Stir it round, stir it round,
Tell me what you have found.
Say the poem just once if you are short on time. If you are not short on time, repeat the poem up to three times, asking different volunteers to suggest different ingredients each time.
Next, ask the children how long the cake should go in the oven for. Mime putting the
cake in the oven and count out loud together to the suggested number of minutes. Next,
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