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their treasures. “If everyone stands really still 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 freeze. 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 treasures 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.
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.
9. ACTION SONG OR POEM ONE: ‘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,
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.”
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