Animal Parade

 

 

 

Animal Parade is a more challenging song, both in the vocabulary and in the gross motor movements which children are asked to perform. The song begins with everyone marching in a parade, and then asks children to jump like a monkey,
crawl like a turtle, fly like a bird, and hop like a bunny. Children have a wonderful time acting out all these movements, especially if the adults will forget their inhibitions and show them how it's done. Show the children pictures of the animals they are imitating.

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I'm here to ask the boys and girls to join the animal parade
Come on and get in line we're gonna march in time
To the animal parade

We'll march all around and put your feet upon the ground
And lift them up and down
We're gonna march all around to the march, marching sound
In the animal parade

We all are march, march, marching in the animal parade
We all are march, march, marching in the animal parade
We'll march all around lift our feet up and down!
We'll march with the animals, to the animal parade

First I'd like you all to meet an animal that jumps around
He likes to hang by by his tail, through the air he will sail
But he'll land with his feet on the ground

Can you jump like a monkey, up and down all jumpy
Jump as high as you can
Can you jump like a monkey, if you think it's funny
Just be careful where you land

We all are jump, jump, jumping in the animal parade
We all are jump, jump, jumping in the animal parade
We'll jump like a monkey, up and down all jumpy
Jump like a monkey, in the animal parade

Have you ever met a turtle, he crawls along the ground
He moves so slow, you would hardly know
If he's really moving around

Can you do the turtle crawl? You hardly have to move at all
And don't you make a sound
Can you do the turtle crawl? You hardly have to move at all
Just crawl along the ground

We all are crawling in the animal parade
We all are crawling in the animal parade
We'll crawl like a turtle crawls, we'll hardly have to move at all
We'll crawl like a turtle in the animal parade

Next I'd like to introduce to you, a bird that flies up high
A song he sings as he spreads his wings and flies up high in the sky
Can you fly like a bird, spread your arms out wide
Fly up high in the sky
Can you fly like a bird, spread your arms out wide
Fly, fly, fly

We all are flying in the animal parade
We all are flying in the animal parade
We'll fly like a bird can fly, high up in the sky
Fly like a bird, in the animal parade

Last we'll be a bunny he likes to hop, hop, hop, hop, hop
Sometimes he wrinkles his nose but what he likes to do most
Is hop hoppity hop hop hop

Can you hop like a bunny, you might think it's kind of funny
You can hop, hop all the day long
But if you were a rabbit and you had that kind of habit
You wouldn't think there's anything wrong

We all are hop, hop, hopping in the animal parade
We all are hop, hop, hopping in the animal parade
We hop like a bunny hops. Hop, hop, hoppity hop
Hop like a bunny, in the animal parade

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