Nursery World - Creep and crawl

Use rhyme and movement to add fun to your studies of minibeasts with these activity ideas from Carolyn Price Slowly, slowly

Slowly, slowly

Slowly, slowly, very slowly

Creeps the garden snail.

Slowly, slowly, very slowly

Up the wooden rail.

Quickly, quickly, very quickly

Runs the little mouse.

Quickly, quickly, very quickly

Round about the house.

Hurry, scurry

Share the rhyme, then try some tricky moves.

Planned learned intention

To increase bodily awareness and gross motor skills

Resources

Pictures of snails and mice

Step by step

* Look at the pictures. How many legs do the mouse and snail have?

* Ask the children to suggest hand movements to illustrate how the creatures move. Try out the children's suggested movements and use them while saying the rhyme.

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