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Monday
Actors - Karen Pang and Matt Passmore
Pianist – Peter Dasent
Songs
“One Day A Hand Went Walking”
Composer: P. Charlton & P. Reade
Publisher: ABC
“Hickory Dickory Dock”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“This Old Man”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC
“Highway Number One”
Composer: Gary King
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Story
“Alfie’s Feet”
Author & Illustrator: Shirley Hughes
Publisher: Random House UK
Film
“Soccer Team”
(Play School, ABC)
Ideas for Later
PRINTS
Use the printed sponges to make hand and foot prints.
CLEAN YOUR SHOES
Sometimes shoes need a good clean or polish. You can help to polish and shine your shoes.
SOCK PUPPETS
Make some sock puppets by gluing or sewing faces onto old socks.
Make and Do
HOW TO MAKE SHOE PUPPETS
To make shoe puppets you will need:
Strong card
Paddle pop sticks
Tinsel
Stickers
Coloured paper
Scissors
Paste
Patty pans
Small balloon and anything else you may like to decorate your puppet with.
Trace around your shoe on the cardboard with a black marker and then cut the shoe shape out. Decorate the shoe shape however you like. Draw or paste on a coloured paper face. Tape or glue some wool or tinsel for some hair. You may wish to tape on some material for clothes. You may like to punch holes around the edge and thread a shoelace or some ribbon through them.
Tape the shoe puppet to a paddle pop stick so that you can move and dance it around.
SHOE PAINTING PATTERNS
For shoe painting you will need:
A large sheet of paper
A sponge covered in paint
Some old shoes.
Place some thin sponge on a plate or shallow tray and cover it in paint. Have a few more sponges with different coloured paint covering them.
Press one of the shoes onto t
Tuesday
Actors: Justine Clarke and Teo Gebert
Pianist: Peter Dasent
Songs
“Hickory Dickory Dock”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“I’m The Man In The Wellington Boots”
Composer: William Buzard
Publisher: BBC
“Rain Song”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“Humpty Dumpty”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC
“Can-Can”
Composer: Offenbach
“Two Fat Gentlemen”
Composer: Mary Champion De Crespigny
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“Wet Washing”
Composer: Liz Olsen
Publisher: ABC
Story
“Washing Line”
Author: Jez Alborough
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Animation
“Shoe animation”
(Play School, ABC)
Film
“Henna tattoos”
(Play School, ABC)
Ideas for Later
MATCHING SOCKS
Help match socks that come from the clothesline. It is a very helpful job.
FUN IN THE PUDDLES
Put on your rain hat, raincoat and gumboots and go for a splash and stomp in the puddles.
SOCK PUPPETS
What do you do with odd socks? Try making some sock puppets or a soft sock ball to play with.
Make and Do
PLAY SOCK SCRAMBLE
To play you will need:
A pile of socks that need to be paired and a laundry basket.
The idea of the game is to match up socks that are the same.
Have two piles of socks, making sure the corresponding sock is in the other pile.
One person chooses a sock from one pile and asks the other player to find its pair from the other pile.
The person finding the matching pair must find it before the other person counts to 10 or finishes singing a song
DECORATING FINGERS
To decorate fingers you will need:
Nail polish
Star stickers,
Coloured paper
Hair scrunchies
Put a frilly scrunchie around your index and middle fingers so it looks like a dancing dress.
Put some gold stars on your index and middle fingers. These look like two gold dancing shoes. Now dance your fingers
Wednesday
Actors: Justine Clarke and Teo Gebert
Pianist: Peter Dasent
Songs
“The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round”
Composer: M. Miller & P. Zajan
Publisher: G. Schirmer Australia
“Walking In The City”
Composer: A. North & M. Wesley-Smith
Publisher: ABC
“Have You Heard The Cat At Night?”
Composer: Ron Gamack
Publisher: ABC
“Moon Moon”
Composer: (Words) Lucy Sprague-Mitchell / (Music) German Folk Song - Traditional
Publisher: Allans Music Ltd
“New Shoelaces”
Composer: Adrian Bell
Publisher: Unpublished
“Hickory Dickory Dock”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Story
“Captain Purr”
Author: Madeleine Floyd
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Film
“Family Night Out”
(Play School, ABC)
Ideas for later
PLAY A NAME GAME
Play a mime game. Pretend to put on some dancing shoes and dance around. People playing the game can guess whether you have put on ballet shoes or tap shoes. Pretend to put on different types of shoes and have your friends guess what shoes you have put on. For example, put on soccer boots and kick about. What other shoes can you wear? What do you do when you are wearing the shoes?
NIGHTTIME STORY
Read a nighttime story to someone living at your home, or tell a story to your toy friends.
Make and do
HOW TO MAKE A SHOE-BOX TRAIN, BUS AND AEROPLANE
To make a shoebox train, bus and aeroplane you will need:
Shoeboxes
Cardboard
Milk bottle tops
Scissors
Markers
Coloured paper
Pipe cleaners
Paddle pop sticks
Cushion
DOUBLE DECKER BUS
Stand the shoebox on its side and stick four wheels onto each side of the bus.
Glue a cardboard rim around the top edges of the roof of the bus to make an open-air double decker bus.
Paste coloured paper squares onto the side to represent windows and doors on the bus.
Draw some passengers in the windows, and a driver for the bus.
TRAIN
Remove the lid fro
Thursday
Actors: Justine Clarke and Matt Passmore
Pianist: Peter Dasent
Songs
“Changes”
Composer: H. Clark & D. Spencer
Publisher: Unpublished
“Cobbler, Cobbler”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Penguin
“Hickory Dickory Dock”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“Sleepville”
CD: Bright Eyes, Track 13
Composer: Jerry Cortez
Pub: One Music Library
“Shane And Josh”
Composer: Gary & Carol Crees
Publisher: Unknown (from Ready or Not! Resource Book)
“Teddy Bear Twist”
Composer: D. Watkins & C. Harriot
Publisher: Control
“Foot Notes”
Composer: Charlton/Lesage
Publisher: ABC/EMI
Theme from ‘Bonanza’
Composer: J. Livingstone & R. Evans
Publisher: Warner Bros.
Story
“Making Rain” told using bush animal puppets”
(Play School Team, ABC)
Films
“Shoeing a horse”
(Play School, ABC)
“Foot Notes”
(Play School, ABC)
Ideas for later
DECORATING CLOTHES
You can decorate any item of clothing that may be old. An old hat can be decorated with flowers and ribbons. An old vest can be decorated with material, pictures, coloured ribbons or badges.
RAIN PAINTING
Make a rain painting. Get a large piece of paper. Shake some powder paint all over the paper. Place the paper carefully outside when it is raining. Watch the raindrops make a splash painting. Then take the painting into dry.
Make and Do
HOW TO MAKE A BROOM HORSE
To make a broom horse you will need:
Gumboot
Broom
Wool
Stickers
Ribbon for a rein and tape
Take the broom handle and put the gumboot on the top to form a horse’s head.
Put on some sticker eyes, some wool hair and a ribbon rein with tape.
Take the horse for a gallop.
HOW TO MAKE A SNEAKER GARDEN
To make a sneaker garden you will need:
An old boot or sneaker
Paint
Soil
A punnet of flowers and a watering can.
Take the old boot or sneaker and cut
Friday
Actors: Justine Clarke and Matt Passmore
Pianist: Peter Dasent
Songs
“Hokey Pokey”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC
“Upsy Down Town”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“Let’s Go Driving”
Composer: J. Moss
Publisher: Festival Attractions Inc (ASCAP) / EMI
“Little By Little”
Composer: Peter & Robyn Mapleson
Publisher: Unpublished
“Hickory Dickory Dock”
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
“Choo Choo – Vamos a Pasear”
Composer: Traditional Spanish
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Story
“I Can Fix It”
(Play School Team, ABC)
Film
“Changing A Tyre”
(Play School, ABC)
Ideas for later
LEAF PUPPETS
Gather some leaves that have fallen from the trees to make leaf puppets. Choose some that have an interesting shape. Take a black marker and draw a face on each leaf. Now you have lots of different leaf puppets that you can name and have fun with.
CLEAN YOUR SHOES
Help to clean or polish your shoes when they get dirty.
Make and Do
HOW TO MAKE SILLY PICTURES
To make silly pictures you will need:
Magazine pictures
Child safe scissors
Glue
Paper
First cut magazine pictures that are approximately the same size. Pictures can be of any object or animal.
What picture would make a good head? E.g. a cat’s head, an orange, a clock, a flower.
What picture would make a good body? E.g. Surfboard, cushion, lampshade.
What pictures would make two arms or legs? E.g. Fish, running shoes, snails.
Paste the pictures you have chosen on a piece of paper to make crazy pictures. E.g. A clock surfboard fishy creature.
HOW TO MAKE SHOE POLISH LEAF PICTURES
To make shoe polish leaf pictures you will need:
Paper
A collection of leaves
Liquid shoe polish
Firstly, decide which leaves you would like to make a print of.
Next, lightly cover the leaf with liquid shoe pol
