Jellyfish and Shark Puppets with poem

Five Little Jellyfish

5 little jellyfish floating in the sea  (5 fingers moving slowly)

1 shark says, “Looks yummy to me!”

(Hold up 1 finger and then rub belly)

The shark swims up quiet as can be and EATS a little jellyfish floating in the sea

(Whisper with shark fins on head, then clap to eat)

4 little jellyfish floating in the sea…

3 little jellyfish floating in the sea…

2 little jellyfish floating in the sea…

1 little jellyfish floating in the sea…

To make the jellyfish finger puppets I just folded over some of the remaining felt and hot glued them half shut so that they would fit on fingers. I measured off of my fingers and just made them a little tighter imagining little fingers instead. 

Materials:

-1 shark puppet

-5 jellyfish finger puppets (I made 12)

Use:

Start with each child having a jellyfish. While the poem says five jellyfish you can either repeat with five until everyone gets a turn or give out all the jellyfish and start out with how many children you have in the class. When you get to the shark eating the jellyfish stand up, walk around, and choose a jellyfish you, as the shark will eat. Eat all the jellyfish and they if the children would like start over choosing a child to be the shark this time.  Remind the children every one will get a turn if they want one. To make the group time go by fast if the children are being impatient only allow the children to eat one jellyfish at a time.