So, the rhyme tells the story of a little boy called Jeannot and how he rides his horses to different places. The town/city name is chosen to rhyme with the colour of the horse - e.g. Paris and cheval gris. The actions are riding "au pas" - slowly, "au trot" - a bit faster, and then finally "au galop" - as fast as you like!
If you would like to give it a try at home, the words are as follows (of course, you can change the towns and colours as you wish!):
Quand
Jeannot va à Paris
sur son
petit cheval gris
Il va:
au pas, au
pas, au pas.
Quand
Jeannot va à Rouen
sur son
petit cheval blanc
Il va:
au trot, au
trot, au trot.
Quand
Jeannot va à Quimper,
sur son
petit cheval vert
Il va:
au galop, au
galop, au galop.
To accompany our rhyme, this week our craft activity involved making a horse picture, the inspiration came from here: http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/animals/farm/footprint-horse.asp
And this is how we did it:
1. To make our horse's head, we drew around our feet - just the basic outline, don't draw around the toes!
2. To make the horses neck, cut a rectangle of paper and then cut off at an angle once you have positioned it on the background paper. To make the mane you can let your toddler practice their scissor skills by snipping into one edge of the rectangle.
3. Glue the neck and head onto your paper and then add googly eyes, two triangle ears and make a forlock from ribbon, wool, etc. Draw on nostrils and a mouth.
4. Add the background detail to your picture. We added things like grass at the bottom and the sky with a sun at the top. We also used foam craft sticks to make a fence.
Here are our finished horse pictures - I think you will agree that they are pretty fabulous! :o)
I love the way each child interprets the horses differently!
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