. Rhythmic action plays and dances; a book of original games and dances, arranged progressively, to Mother Goose and other action songs, with a teaching introductory; for the kindergarten, primary schools, playground and gymnasium. i E -N- com - fits in the cab - in, And ap - pies in the hold; . Thecap - tain was a duck, a duck,With a jack - et on his back, . And i^feEEC^ :t * ? fe» S -A-^ »--i- -•—•- sails were made of sat - in, And the mast was made of gold,when the fai - ry ship set sail. The cap - tain he said Quack. i5# i=^^ :^=:::]: 4-^- ^ RHYTHMIC ACTION PLAYS AND DANCES 137 This game m
. Rhythmic action plays and dances; a book of original games and dances, arranged progressively, to Mother Goose and other action songs, with a teaching introductory; for the kindergarten, primary schools, playground and gymnasium. i E -N- com - fits in the cab - in, And ap - pies in the hold; . Thecap - tain was a duck, a duck,With a jack - et on his back, . And i^feEEC^ :t * ? fe» S -A-^ »--i- -•—•- sails were made of sat - in, And the mast was made of gold,when the fai - ry ship set sail. The cap - tain he said Quack. i5# i=^^ :^=:::]: 4-^- ^ RHYTHMIC ACTION PLAYS AND DANCES 137 This game may be played either in a Kindergarten with the chairs arranged in acircle or in a school room with desks. In the Kindergarten the children march around serpentining in and out among thechairs with an odd one in the centre as Captain Duck. At the end of the third verse theCaptain cries quack and rushes to get a seat; the odd one left without a seat thenbecomes the Captain. In order to make the time indefinite, the Captain may wait abrief time after the singing has ceased before saying quack, during which interval thechildren must continue to march. In a school room the children serpentine up and down the 138 RHYTHMIC ACTION PLAYS AND DANCES LITTLE HOY BLUE One of the players, who is chosen to be Little Boy Blue, goes to one side and liesdown pretending to be asleep under a haystack. The rest of the players, who are thecows and the sheep, run up and call Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, the sheepare in the meadow, the cows in the corn. This awakens Little Boy Blue and hejumps up and chasesthe cows and sheep until he tags someone. Little Boy Blue takesthe one he has tagged back to the haystack and then Little Boy Blue joins the otherplayers and becomes a cow or sheep. The game begins again as before with the one whohas just been caught acting as Little Boy Blue.
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