Old MacDonald

This set, like my Hickory Dickory Dock and One, Two, Buckle My Shoe sets is from a Judy Sierra pattern e-book.  I actually didn't already have an Old MacDonald set--though I do often use my farm finger puppets when we sing it.  I also have a pop-up Old McD book.  But it will be nice to finally have a simple felt set to use with this classic little song. 

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Three Jellyfish

This one is new to me-yippee!  All the links to tunes I've found for this feature Australian accents, so I guess that's one reason I hadn't heard it before.  It's simple, and it's three instead of five, so there's that delightful feature--and jellyfish (in felt form) are so cute, so there's that, too...  Can't wait to share it with my kids this week!

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Watch me sing this one!

Here are the lyrics to go along with these wiggly little guys:

Three Jellyfish Lyrics

Three jellyfish, three jellyfish.
Three jellyfish sitting on a rock.
One fell off:  weeee!

Two jellyfish, two jellyfish.
Two jellyfish sitting on a rock.
One fell off:  weeee!

One jellyfish, one jellyfish.
One jellyfish sitting on a rock.
One fell off:  weee!

No jellyfish, no jellyfish.
No jellyfish sitting on a rock.

One jumped up…yay!

Etc.

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Five Elephants Went Out to Play

Edit:  Since originally posting, I've got a new, colorful elephant set you can read about here and here, or buy them here.

This is a remake of an old foam set I've had for years.  This time I made my elephants much bigger, and I have two poems/rhymes to use with them (and they could also go along with my bathtub from Five Elephants in a Bathtub)

Another edit: To hear these songs,  Here's my Elephant playlist on YouTube :) 

Here they are all lined up on a string...

One grey elephant balancing

Step by step on a piece of string 

He thought it was such a wonderful stunt 

That he called for another elephant 

Two grey elephants etc... 

Five grey elephants balancing

Step by step on a piece of string 

They thought it was such a wonderful stunt

That they called for another elephant.

(and then make them all tip off the string and fall--kersplat!--to the ground!

And here they are atop a spider's web (which here is made of paper, but I'll use black fabric paint on a white sheet of felt for the final product).

One elephant went out to play
Upon a spider’s web one day.

He had such enormous fun,

He called for another elephant to come… “Oh, ELEPHANT!”

Two elephants…
Three elephants…
Four elephants…
Five elephants went out to play

Upon a spider’s web one day.

They had such enormous fun

But there were no more elephants left to come.

Or:

The web went creak, the web went crack.

And all of the elephants went KERSPLAT!

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Build a Bug Set

Bugs gross me out.  So, I needed to neutralize them for this set.  In other words, make them pretty and rather unrealistic.  I guess I'm doing a disservice to the children in my classroom by doing this, but I see it done in a lot of books too, so I'm just going with the flow :) 

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In my classroom, I have individual flannel boards for the children to use on their laps, on the floor, or at a table.  That's where I'll have these buggies available.  I might also incorporate them into a small group time and let the children help me build some bugs on the big board.  Lots of great opportunities for vocabulary and imagination building with this set!

If you're a librarian, you could make these available at a felt table after a bug, spring, or garden story time.

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