Page 3 - Princesses & Knights 2 hour

All:
Starlight starbright,
First star I see tonight.
Wish I may, wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight.
You: Birthday girl/boy, (insert Child’s Name) what’s your wish? (to the birthday boy/girl the first time, you may need to give some suggestions)
Child: I wish for a castle. (the child invents their own wish)
You: (spoken) Now, let’s all say “One, two, three abracadabra”!
All (spoken): One, two three, abracadabra! (the children wave their imaginary wands)
Repeat several times as above, except for at the end of each verse when you ask the children to put their hand up if they would like to make a wish. You then sing “Hello, what’s your wish?” to a child that has their hand up. If you have more than ten children, you could try asking a few children at a time (at the end of each verse before saying “one, two, three abracadabra”) to speed up the activity. If you have more than 20 children you can ask everyone that hasn’t had a turn to shout their wish out at once.
6. CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE ONE: ‘Strong and Brave’ performed by Hi-5
Click on song name to open the video in YouTube.
“Real princesses and knights must be very strong and brave so now I’m going to teach you a dance that will make you strong and brave just like me!” Go through the tricky moves first then play the track and perform the dance as in the video.
7. PARACHUTE ACTIVITY WITH TOY/S ON TOP: ‘Ten Toys on the Bouncing Castle’ (tune of ‘Two Teddies on a Trampoline’ by Linda Bance)
“Who can tell me where princesses and knights live? My favourite kind of castle is a bouncing castle. Let’s make one now with the parachute.” Explain that first they must practice with the imaginary parachute and that if everyone listens really well then you will take out the real parachute. Sing the song and move your arms up and down in time with the pulse.
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 (so there are up to about 20 all together) on top and skip to singing “Lots of toys on the bouncing castle etc.”. Don’t worry if they fall off. They always do!
8. MUSICAL STATUES: ‘Shake It Off’ performed by Taylor Swift
a) Ask the children if they know the game Musical Statues. Tell them that they’re going to play a
game a little bit like Musical Statues 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 knights 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 scary dragon is coming and so they must all freeze and be really quiet (demonstrate freezing as you say this) so the dragon doesn’t find them and burn their treasures. “If everyone freezes really quickly when the music stops, you will all win a Haribo treat.”
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