Busy Squirrel
A Fingerplay
If your little ones are feeling squirrelly this fall, keep them moving with the motions of this action poem. Or provide youngsters with acorns to "bury" under a table as you chant the first verse of the poem and then "dig up" when you recite the second verse.
Gray squirrel, gray squirrel
Doesn't make a sound,
As he buries acorns
Underneath the ground.
Later, when it's cold
And food cannot be found,
The gray squirrel will dig
His acorns from the ground.
Linda Rice Ludlow, Bethesda Christian School, Brownsburg, IN
The Mailbox: Preschool October/November 1998 Fingerplays, Poems, & Rhymes: "Busy Squirrel" Page 12.
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