Schools are breaking for summer all over the country, which means summer camps and kids programs are popping up everywhere. Even if you’re an educator with an innovative mind, finding fun activities to keep little ones enthusiastic and excited every single day can be overwhelming.
If you’re looking for a bit of fun to perk up your camp date or kids’ program this June, why not celebrate Pop Goes the Weasel Day? Every year on June 14, people in the United States celebrate Flag day, which definitely provides you with a ton of fun activities to work on for part of the day.
Shifting focus from history to fun, you can celebrate Pop Goes the Weasel day by teaching the kids the popular Cockney rhyme song in its many variations.
Many of us probably learned the version:
- All around the mulberry bush
- the monkey chased the weasel.
- The monkey thought it was all in good fun.
- Pop! goes the weasel
- Have the kids make fun monkey masks out of paper plates, designing their own silly monkey faces.
Create a game similar Duck-Duck-Goose. Have the children sit in a circle and assign one of them the role of the monkey. She can walk around patting everyone on the head while the group sings the rhyme. Whomever’s head is the last one patted upon saying the words: “Pop! Goes the weasel,” becomes the next monkey.
You can also teach them alternative versions of the song, such as the original Cockney rhyme and talk about children of the time and era, and the games they used to play.
- Half a pound of tuppenny rice
- half a pound of treacle
- that’s the way the money goes
- Pop! goes the weasel
- Up and down the City Road
- In and out the Eagle
- That’s the way the money goes
- Pop! goes the weasel
When it’s time to sit down for snack, feast on fresh seasonal berries drizzled in treacle syrup.
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toasty redhead
May 29th, 2011 - 5:15:30 AM
I agree 100%
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