Halloween Motion Song

 Halloween Motion Song 

This play was recommended by the Ministery of Education Of The United State of America as the compulsory part of the curriculums of The Primary Schools of The United States Of America in 1927.

Here is the list of the recommendations of the year 1927- The Primary Schools of The USA

1. Plays pageants etc Black cat entertains;  EE Preston Prim. Educ.; Pop. Educ. 45 112 13 Ο 27
2.Halloween motion song -G.L. Smalley; Norm Instr and Prim Plans; 36 78 Ο 27

3.Halloween party; C. Swaney; Norm. Instr. and Prim. Plans. 36 78 Ο 27

4.Why Jack o lantern keeps Halloween; C.S. Bailey; il Am Childhood; 13 34 5 Ο 27 

ADDING THE WHOLE SCENARIO 

Motion 

By Grace L Smalley 

 Tune:  Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow 

(Even number of primary enter, dressed as ghosts and jack-o-lanterns holding them in cle of left arm) 

We are jack-o-lanterns1 bright, 
Lighting this October night. 
We're made of pumpkins big2 and 

round, 
That grew on vines along the ground. 3 

Johnny found us in the corn, 

Only just this very morn. 

He cut our mouths and made our eyes 5 

Now he won't have his pumpkin pies.

See us grin,6 and glare, and stare, 

Does it give you quite a scare, 

When we come running7 at you so, 

And keep on laughing, "Ho ho ho!"

Forms a circle, playmates all, 

Marching9 gayly round the hall; 

Laugh and sing- it's lots of fun, 

When Halloween has just begun.

Now how lightly we can trip. 

With our partners10 we will skip

Make our bows11 and say, Good-

 night 

Then quickly we will take a 

flight. 12  

MOTIONS 

 1. 

Hold up jack-o-lanterns with hands, then place them in circle of left arm again. 

2. 

Let right arm describe circle. 

3. 

Point to  the ground. 

4.

Touch mouths of jack-o-lanterns.

5. 

Touch eyes of jack-o-lanterns. 

6. 

Hold up lanterns again with both hands.

7. 

Hold lanterns forward and run a few steps toward audience. 

8. 

Form a circle, without joining hands. 

9. 

March in circle. 

10. 

Each even numbered child steps for ward to child ahead; they form partners and skip in circle then go back to places straight line facing audience.

11. 

Make a bow. 

12. 

March from stage. 

  

ORIGINAL SONG WAS FOUND IN THIS MAGAZINE

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR OCTOBER  1927