What is Ratty?
A water vole
Favourite statement
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”
Can you pick it up/ dig it?
OH yeah
Banquet at Toad Hall
Like I went to market…
Song 1
The Little Green Frog
One Frog Game
Thigh slap, thigh slap, clap
, clap
One frog
Two eyes
Four legs
Kerplunk
Grandmothers Footsteps
Grandmother a big pike
Everyone else tadpoles
Captain’s Coming!
Scrub the decks
Port side
Starboard
Bows
Stern
Cling the rigging
Seasick
Row the boat (in pairs)
Captain’s Coming
Lifeboat
Octopus
Sailor overboard!
Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merily merily merily merily
Life is but a dream
Ratty song
All along the backwater
Through the rushes all
Ducks are a-babbling
Up tails all
Ducks tails, drakes tails, yellow feet a quiver
Yellow bills all out of sight, busy on the river
Where’s Portly?
Hide and seek with a child playing Portly
Nature charades
Animals, weather (snow, a storm) etc
Races
Animal races
Colour spot
Name a colour - how many things can you see in that colour?
Texture hunt
How many different textures can you feel?
Silent listening
Listen for a minute in silence
What do you hear?
