Il était une bergère is a traditional French comptine with a few versions and many verses. Although it starts off fairly lightheartedly about a shepherdess making cheese from her Sheep's milk it becomes more and more sinister as the song goes on ending with the death of the kitten in some versions or continuing with extra verses where she visits the confessional and seeks forgiveness in some. I took the decision, therefore, that we would stick with the first 2 verses only for the purposes of the toddler group :0)
The lyrics for these two verses are as follow:
Il ètait une bergère
Et Ron et Ron petit patapon,
Il était une bergère
Qui gardait ses moutons, Ron, Ron,
Qui gardait ses moutons.
Elle fit un fromage,
Et Ron et Ron petit patapon
Elle fit un fromage
Au lait de ses moutons Ron Ron
Au lait de ses moutons.
There are various versions available on iTunes to download of you can listen and watch some animated versions on you tube.
Our accompanying craft is one which we did in our very first toddler French session to go with baa baa mouton noir but as we only had 2 children at that session I decided we would do it again.
To make your own standing woolly sheep you will need:
White card
2 wooden pegs
Felt pens
Googly/sticker eyes
Wool - any colour(s) you choose
First cut out a sheep body shape from your card and set aside, then cut out a head shape, draw on a mouth, colour in the ears, add eyes and set aside
Decide what colour you want your Sheep's legs to be and use the felt pens to colour in the wooden pegs.
Decide on the colour(s) you want for your sheep and then begin winding wool all around your Sheep's body. Some of our toddlers chose to instead cut up the wool and stick it on to the body which worked just as well :0)
Attach the pegs to the body and then glue on the face.
Voilà - one little woolly sheep which should stand up by itself (a bit of tweaking of the pegs might be required!)
Here are our fantastic creations:
Happy singing and crafting! :O)
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