The B section section of the song is speaking only. Invite children to choose a shaking instrument for the B section. Follow motions of the speech with maracas. This experience involves finding new ways to use this French folk tune. The ideas for this experiences are adapted from Barbara Andress.
Procedures Sing the song many times with the children so that they know it well.
Duplicate the pictures for the children, cut them out and place in a zip lock bag. Sing and point to each picture to demonstrate how the pictures follow the melody. After much practice, ask the children to select their own four pictures to turn over. Then, ask children to sing their newly constructed versions of the song. Ask each child to position the pictures to invent his or her own order for the song, and sing that alone.