This resource book is full of activities that can be used during school, church, or youth programming to transform listeners into participants. Includes more than forty selections, including action songs, chants, tongue twisters, musical games, and audience participation tales.
Introduction 7If You Can't Carry a Tune In a Bucket: Chants, Poems, and Other Nonmusical FunLet Me See Your Frankenstein 10The Rabbits Are Eating the Tomatoes! 12One Hen, Two Ducks 14Zelda's Hammer 16Does Anyone Know? 18Uncle Joshua 19Tell It with Me: Audience Participation StoriesMontana Tex 22In a Dark, Dark Wood 25Skippin' Home From School 27Little Piggy Rap 30The Bed Just So 33The Little Red House 36The Coffin 42The Dramatic Diagnosis of Doctor Drake 46Night and Day 48Sing It High, Sing It Low: Action Songs, Musical Games, and Snappy ChorusesMove Over 54Teeter-Totter Woo! 56Forty Years on an Iceberg 59Bazooka-zooka Bubble Gum! 61Road Kill Stew 64The Dickey Bird 65Sardines! 67Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 70Bill Grogan's Goat 72I'll Tell My Ma 74Little Cabin in the Forest Green 77Hi-Ho-Jerum 79Pirate Ship 82Ravioli 84Little Green Frog 87Mrs. Murphy's Chowder 89Purple Lights 91Mmmm, I Want to Linger 93May There Always Be Sunshine 95Keep Breathing 97Knee Stoppers, Rib Ticklers, and Tongue TwistersKnock-Knock 100American Riddles 106Traditional Riddles from Many Lands 111Tongue Twisters and Tanglers 115Prinderella and the Since 117The Limerick Song 119Tree Toad Trials 122If You Want to Dig Deeper: A Bibliography of Resources 125Acknowledgements 129Index of Titles 135