Finger Play Fun Day: 5 Little Snowmen

Finger Play Fun Day:  5 Little Snowmen

Today's finger play is perfect for the entire winter season!  

I made simple felt finger puppets to make the finger play even more fun but plain little fingers will work too!  Or make your own Stick Snow People!

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5 Little Snowmen

5 little snowmen standing round my door.
This one melted and then there were four.
Four little snowmen beneath a green pine tree.
This one melted and then there were three.
Three little snowmen with caps and mittens blue.
This one melted and then there were two.
Two little snowmen standing in the sun.
This one melted and then there was one.
One little snowman started to run.
But he melted away and then there was none.

Free Stick Puppet Snow People

Looking for more snowman fun?  Check out Wise Owl Factory's Free Roll-a-Snowman Activity

Read a free book Snowmen at Night on We Give Books.

Check out my Snow Fun board on Pinterest with all kinds of snowman crafts and activities.

Enjoy!

Finger Play Fun Day: 5 Little Pumpkins

Finger Play Fun Day:  5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Fence



 

Halloween is on its way!

Today is Finger Play Fun Day and we will be sharing 5 Little Pumpkins.

 

My students have been enjoying this finger play all month long.  I made 5 jack-o-lantern finger puppets to add to the fun!

 

There are different variations for this finger play but here is my favorite!

 



Here are the words I like the best:

5 Little Pumpkins

5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, "Oh my its getting late."
The second one said, "I hear a noise."
The third one said, "It's only some boys."
The fourth one said, "Let's run. Let's run."
The fifth one said, It's Halloween fun."

Then oooooo went the wind and out went the lights.
And away rolled the pumpkins on Halloween night.





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Carolyn, at Wise Owl Factory, made an awesome skip counting Power Point with Pumpkins!  Count by ones, twos, threes, fives,
and tens!  The children might watch silently the first time through and then count aloud while watching the second time!

Free Power Point Skip Counting


Happy Halloween!

Finger Play Fun Day: The Apple Tree

Finger Play Fun Day:  The Apple Tree

Summer vacation is over and school has begun.  Fall and apple season is on the way!

The Apple Tree is the finger play for today's Finger Play Fun Day.

This is a simple finger play that my students always want to repeat and do again.  I made some cute little apple finger puppets out of felt but these are not necessary for doing the finger play!  Plain fingers do just as well.


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The Apple Tree

 

Way up high in the apple tree,

Four little apples smiled at me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could.

Down came the apples!

Mmmm, were they good!

 

Way up high in the apple tree,

Three little apples smiled at me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could.

Down came the apples!

Mmmm, were they good!

 

Way up high in the apple tree,

Two little apples smiled at me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could.

Down came the apples!

Mmmm, were they good!

 

Way up high in the apple tree,

One little apples smiled at me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could.

Down came the apple!

Mmmm, was it good!

 

Words to this finger play and many othes can be found at http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems23.html


Here are more fun apple activities! 

Carolyn, at Wise Owl Factory, has created free worksheets:  Counting Apples-Counting and Skip Counting.    These are wonderful for children to practice counting by 2's and by 3's.  One worksheet has the children circling apples and then going back and counting the groups.  Another worksheet has the children filling in missing numbers.



Counting Apples:  Counting and Skip Counting

You can also view all the words plus apple animation on this
Counting Apples Power Point

 

Enjoy this apple season!