coccinelle, demoiselle...

Last Friday's session introduced the comptine "Coccinelle demoiselle" a French nursery rhyme about ladybirds. 

As is often the case with nursery rhymes there are several versions, generally it is just a case of the colours being in a different order.  Anyway, for the version that  we sang the lyrics were as follows:

Coccinelle, demoiselle,

Bête à Bon Dieu,

Coccinelle, demoiselle,

Vole jusqu'aux cieux.

Petit point blanc

Elle attend.

Petit point rouge

Elle bouge.

Petit point noir

Coccinelle au revoir!

To accompany the song, our craft this week involved making our own ladybird hats. 

To make one of your own you will need,
a long strip of card (well long enough to wrap around your little ones head)
red collage materials - we had a variety including felt, paper, tissue paper, crepe paper, foam, ribbon, shiny paper, etc
black paper,
spot stickers,
a pipe cleaner,
a pencil,
a stapler

First make 2 holes in the top centre of the strip of card and thread the pipe cleaner through.  Wrap each end of the pipe cleaner around the pencil to make the twisty antennae shape.

Use the red collage materials you have to cover the cardboard.

Cut a semi circle out of the black paper and glue onto the cardboard below the antennae for the ladybird's face.  Add a face using googly/sticker eyes, felt pens/glitter glue etc.

Give your ladybird some spots using the spot stickers.

Wrap your cardboard around to make a hat shape and staple at the right size for you little one's head.

Here are ours to give you some ideas:

Happy singing and crafting! :O)