My kids have been hassling me for a while to make some more stick puppets, like the frog ones we made a while back, and today was the day!
We set up our own ‘hill’ and used some play dough to make Mummy Duck stand up all alone, which seemed to fascinate my boy.
“She’ll be crying won’t she mum? You’d cry if I went away and didn’t come back, wouldn’t you mum?”
After a little chat about how I would most definitely be very sad if my beautiful boy (or any of my kids) went over a hill and didn’t come back and how it is important to answer me if I call out “Where are you?” so that I know you are safe…. after all of that we finally got to the singing and puppet show part.
Five Little Ducks
Five little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said,
“Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!”
But only four little ducks came back.
You can download the free printable duck pdf, just click on the image above. Print, cut out and contact or laminate, add sticks and you are read to go duck crazy at your house!
Here’s another duck some that we like. Tape a feather to one of your puppets and you’re good to go!
Six Little Ducks the I Once Knew.
Six little ducks that I once knew,
Fat ones, fair ones, skinny ones too.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He led the others with a Quack Quack Quack!
Quack Quack Quack!
Quack Quack Quack!
He led the others with a Quack Quack Quack!
Down to the river they would go,
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble too and fro.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He led the others with a Quack Quack Quack!
Quack Quack Quack!
Quack Quack Quack!
He led the others with a Quack Quack Quack!
Home from the river they would come,
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, ho hum hum
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He led the others with a Quack Quack Quack!
Quack Quack Quack!
Quack Quack Quack!
He led the others with a Quack Quack Quack!
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Oh they are too cute :)
5 little ducks are one of our fun sing in the mirror and watch our facial expression songs :D
Oh I like the 6 duck version!!
What a lovely activity! Isn’t it amazing that when you start a conversation with a little one (eg a counting song about ducks) that it ends up somewhere completely unexpected (eg. about how you would feel if he went away)?! I love to see how their minds connect between different concepts. Thanks for sharing this!
This is super cute Kate. I am going to print this out to do with Libby tomorrow. She will love it and so will I. N x
How beautiful! and I have sung 5 little ducks to my boys many times, just using my fingers, this adds quite a bit more fun to the game. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 4 post on Jun. 14, 2011. Thanks again.
Love.
Gorgeous, my little boy will love this, it’s one of his favourite songs. Although personally I’m more partial to the six little ducks song. Thanks for putting up fantastic printables like this! Love em.
Thanks so much for this! The frog printable has been a huge hit with my little girl (20 months), she runs to grab them if a frog song comes on the CD player so they can “jump, jump, jump”. She adores ducks so I can’t wait to print these out for her.
Thanks so much. Had a play date this afternoon so we had 2 four year olds and 2 two year olds. All loved the activity. While the other mummy and I were busy cutting out ducks, the four year olds used excellent maths skills sorting and counting to make sure everyone had the right number of ducks. The 2 year olds enjoyed choosing the colours for their popsticks and all enjoyed the puppet show provided by the four year olds when they were finished. We have been singing 5 little ducks ever since!
Oh I love these! I will make them when the colour printer is set up my eldest will love them, she adores this song. If I make them can I do a post on my blog with a link to you? I would love to share them with my readers and your great blog too :)
Hi,
Thankyou for the puppet printables. I work in the babies room at a childcare centre and my group loved them. Are you planning on doing any other rhymes, as I would love to make up a collection and I’m not as creative.
Kelly
Thanks so much, just lovely xo
Seriously, could those ducks be any cuter! When we are doing finger plays or songs at preschool, the kids are soooo much more engaged when there are props involved :)
when we do 5 little ducks, we add at the end:
But when the daddy duck says ‘quack, quack, quack’ (at which point everyone quacks as loud as they can)
5 little ducks come waddling back!
Thank you for the adorable printable. My little boys will love these ducks.
thank you very much for the printables!!!!!
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