Australian animals in sand
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Most years as a follow up to our Wild Action incursion, we take the children to the Healesville Sanctuary on an excursion. It is a wonderful place to see and learn about our unique Australian animals.
One year we bought a set of Aussie animals from the Sanctuary shop and we pop them into all sorts of imaginary play areas, sometimes by themselves and sometimes with other creatures. Here we have used sand as a basis. The sand is great as it can be dry as we have it here, or wet so that the children can sculpt it however they like. Add a few logs, plants and rocks and there you have it!
In keeping with our current interest in Australian animals we taught the children a new version (one we made up ourselves) of an old favorite song.
The original is:
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh kookaburra laugh kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!
Our new version sung to the same tune is:
Crocodile sits in the muddy swamp,
Eating all the children – chomp, chomp, chomp.
Snap crocodile snap crocodile,
Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp!
