Information and guidance
Before using the content
Tell the children that today’s theme is cake and there will also be pancakes!
• Talk about Shrove Tuesday ('Pancake Day') and how it is celebrated.
• Do any of the children help a grown up with baking?
• Do they know the main ingredients for a cake mixture?
Movement language
The following vocabulary will be used in the programme: ingredients, bowl, spoon, mix, tip, tap, crack, heavy, circle, stretch, turn on the spot.
Movement
The children pretend to make a cake. They tip sugar into a bowl of butter, tap and crack three eggs, add some flour from a heavy bag and mix it all with a wooden spoon. Standing in a space, with the music, they turn around slowly on the spot and back the other way, to be wooden spoons mixing.
Song (tune: ‘Frère Jacques’)
Mix a pancake, mix a pancake.
Pop it in the pan, pop it in the pan,
When you toss a pancake, when you toss a pancake,
Catch it if you can, catch it if you can.
Story
It's pancake day at Lucy’s house but things don’t go according to plan…
See the Teacher's Notes for more information and guidance on using the content.
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