Do you know Old Macdonald Had A Farm Song? This is a
very famous children song about animal sounds and a farmer named Old Macdonald.
The lyrics of
this song have been translated into many languages such as Danish, French, etc.
Do you have toy animals? you can sing Old Macdonald
Had A Farm song and play Farm Animal Game with your toy animals ?
Now, here we go !
How to
Play the Farm Animal Game
Get ready.
1) Ask your parents for a basket or a bag to be the
barn for your toy animals.
2) Pick a few toy animals to play with. Put the toy
animals in the barn.
Perform the song.
3) Stand up and sing the song "Old
MacDonald Had a Farm Song." These are the lyrics:
Old MacDonald had a farm,
EE-I-EE-I-O.
And on his farm he had a cow,
EE-I-EE-I-O.
With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there,
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo.
Old MacDonald had a farm,
EE-I-EE-I-O.
EE-I-EE-I-O.
And on his farm he had a cow,
EE-I-EE-I-O.
With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there,
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo.
Old MacDonald had a farm,
EE-I-EE-I-O.
4) Perform the song again. This time, when you
perform, "And on his farm, he had a _____" -- stop.
5) Close your eyes and pick a toy animal out of the
barn.
6) What kind of animal you have picked is it ?
7) Perfrom the rest of the song about the animal you
picked.
Dance like an animal.
8) Pretend you are the animal you have picked. Make
the sound liek the animal. Move like the animal moves. When you move while you
perform, you are dancing.
9) Sing the song again about the animal you have
picked. Keep dancing and moving like the animal.
Keep playing.
10) Perform the song again. Pick another toy animal.
11) Pretend to be that animal. Perform the song again
and dance around the room.
You should keep playing until there are no more toy
animals in the barn.
