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7. MUSICAL STATUES: ‘Shake It Off’ 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 fairies and you are going to give them a magical
fairy shaker (egg shaker).
c) When the music plays they must march their shakers to the Fairy Kingdom
(demonstrate as you tell them). When the music stops they have to freeze and be really quiet so the Naughty Goblin doesn’t hear them and steal their fairy shakers. “If you can be so quiet that the Naughty Goblin doesn’t hear you, you will win a Haribo treat. The Naughty Goblin can’t see you because you’re such small fairies but he can hear you.”
d) “I am going to turn into the Naughty Goblin every time the music stops.”
e) Give each child a magical fairy shaker.
f) Play ‘Shake It Off’ and the children march around the room and shake their magical
fairy shakers. This is your favourite song and so you start doing extremely silly goblin
dancing (this should make the children laugh).
g) You start to hear magical fairy shakers and so you stop the music. The children
freeze so you can’t hear them. You get grumpy because you can’t see or hear
anything. You realise it must be your old age and so play your favourite song again.
h) Repeat several times until you confess that the fairies have beaten you and delivered
the shakers to the Fairy Kingdom. You cry and say “I want my mummy!”
i) Take your scarf off so you are no longer the Naughty Goblin, congratulate the
children and tell them you will give them their Haribo prize before you go home.
NB: 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 Fairies’ (sung to the traditional tune of ‘Sleeping Bunnies’) or ‘We Are Little Fairies’ by Lucy Milan Davis (sung to the traditional tune of ‘I’m a Little Teapot’)
3-4s only: Perform ‘Sleeping Fairies’
“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 fairies play ‘Sleeping Bunnies’. We’re all going to be fairies and go to sleep and when we wake up, we are going to fly around the room.”
Verse:
See the fairies 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 fairies!” (the children wake up)
Chorus:
Fly little fairies, fly, fly, fly, (flying around the room in the same direction) Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly.
Fly little fairies, fly, fly, fly,
Fly, fly, fly. X 2
If you need to join in with the actions to encourage them then please do so. Otherwise, you should clap along as you sing the chorus to keep up the energy. Repeat several times, using the children’s suggestions for actions. E.g. Dancing fairies, creeping fairies etc.
5-6s only: Perform ‘We Are Little Fairies’
“To be a real fairy you need to learn the special fairy song and it goes like this.” Demonstrate the song and actions for the children. Tell them you’re going to perform it again and this time you’d like them to join in with the actions. You sing the song and the children copy your actions. Tell the children you’re going to do it one last time but this time you’d like them to try and join in with as many of the words as their clever brains can remember. Everyone sings the song and does the actions. Congratulate
the children and tell them that they are officially real fairies.
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