EYFS: Listen and Play - The Magic Porridge Pot

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Liz Kitchen returns with more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and also the story of a very unusual porridge pot.

Suggestions for classroom use

Introduction:Listen all around: outdoor woodland scene. Individual sounds: knocking on door; eating from a bowl with a spoon; porridge bubbling in a pan.

Song: Bubble bubble bubble
Bubble bubble bubble,
Bubble bubble bubble,
Porridge in the pot.
Bubble bubble bubble,
Bubble bubble bubble,
Stir it piping hot.

Split splat splot,
Split splat splot,
Magic porridge pot.
Plip plap plop,
Plip plap plop,
Stir it, never stop.
Bubble bubble bubble…
Eat it piping hot.

Once children are familiar with the song, turn it into a ‘porridge dance’. As they sing, they act the part of the bubbles in the porridge – swaying and moving arms for ‘bubble bubble’ and jumping in time to the ‘split splat splot’, and so on.

Rhyme time:
Porridge is bubbling, bubbling hot,
Stir it round and round in the pot.
The bubbles plip, the bubbles plop,
The bubbles split splat splot –
It’s ready to eat, all bubbling hot.
Porridge in a pot –
Stir it quickly keep it hot.
Put it in a bowl,
Then eat the lot!

Story time: The Magic Porridge PotOnce upon a hungry time… Use the techniques described in previous programmes to help children learn the story.

Small group discussion:

• the lessons of the story (you can have too much of a good thing; make sure you know how to work things before messing with them)
• discuss the fact that some people don’t have food to eat; magic words (e.g. abracadabra, open sesame; hocus-pocus; Izzy Wizzy, let’s get busy)
• use a repeating phrase to innovate (e.g. ‘In my magic pot I found – a silver coin. In my magic pot I found – a baby dragon…’).

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