Warm ups
Bodies
1. Kitchen Kit (Action Game)
Spaghetti / Meatballs / Cheese
Salt / Pepper / Eat It / Drink It
Wash it up / Put it in the dishwasher
2. Pizza, pizza, daddy-o
Kevin has a new friend,
Pizza, pizza, daddy-o,
How d'ya know it?
Pizza, pizza, daddy-o,
Cos' he told me
Pizza, pizza, daddy-o,
Let's jump it,
Jump it, jump it daddy-o
3. I say - You say
I say hip - you say hop
I say butter - you say fly
I say dough - you say nut (fist in hand)
I say gingerbread house - you say "Come in my pretty"
I say snow - you say man
I say high - you say low
I say left - you say right
Cops are coming - Nee, naw (changes places in circle)
Last one back in circle, is leader.
4. Gimme a 1, 2, 3
Gimme a ! (tap thighs, clap, tap thighs)
Gimme a 2 (two taps of thighs, clap, two taps of thighs) etc.
Faces
1. Big Face/Small Face
3. Cup-cake saga!
1. Pick up your cup-cake
2. Show it off to the person on your right / left / forward "Mmmm"
3. Eat your cupcake. Argh. It is hot.
"Ha, ha, ha"
4. Chew your cup cake. Sticky bit (small mouth and big mouth)
5. Sour bit (small face)
6. Turn it in to bubble gum. Blow out and clap.
7. Bubbling up in the belly. (Blblblbl...blurgh)
2. Show the emotion / Guess the emotion
Voices
Vocalisations
1. Plasticine Man
2. Strange Argument
3. Humming / Chewing
Humming Rollercoaster
Spoken word
1. Concentration
Concentration (slap, slap)
Are you ready? (slap, slap)
If so, (slap, slap)
Let's go!
Kevin (slap, slap) to Freddy (slap, slap)
Freddy (slap, slap) to Sally (slap, slap)
Play whole class / Two teams (each side loses a point if they call a name that has already been called).
Hand clap version using categories.
2. Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
All: Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Accuser: X stole the cookie from the cookie jar.
Accused: Who me?
All: Yes you!
Accused: Not me. Couldn't be.
All: Then who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Repeat.
Tap one child (thief) on shoulder before game begins.
Singing Scales
1. Counting scale
1, 1, 2, 1
1, 2, 3, 2, 1
1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
etc.
Replace a number with an action / clap / click
2. Inverted counting scale
8, 8, 7, 8
8, 7, 6, 7, 8
8, 7, 6, 5, 6, 7, 8
etc.
Singing Intervals
1
1, 2
1, 3
1, 4
etc. and invert
Repeat starting with 2
2, 1
2, 2
2, 3
2, 4
etc.
Tongue Twisters
Pop it
Pop it on the head with a ping-pong ball,
Pop it on the head with a ping-pong ball,
Pop it on the head with a ping-pong ball,
With a ping, with a ping pong ball.
With a ping, with a ping,
with a ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong ball,
With a ping, with a ping,
with a ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong ball---- (Repeat)
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