HARVEST POEMS & SONGS
If you are looking for new harvest/ thanksgiving poems and songs for your children to perform at your Harvest Festival or Thanksgiving Celebration these will be perfect as they are written especially for that purpose.
The idea is that they are either easily remembered or narrated, as there is always so little rehearsal time and never enough harvest poems and songs to go around, so these can be used individually with a class, or maybe even by mixing year groups to perform together.
I won’t presume to tell you how to use them or what age group to use them with, but I have no doubt that you’ll use them successfully however you choose to adapt them. The following details are just to give you an idea of what I had in mind as I wrote them:
Suggested Harvest and Thanksgiving poems/ songs for younger children….
- In view of the fact that Nursery Rhymes and Traditional tales are part of the national curriculum for this age group, I wrote one of my thanksgiving poems using nursery rhymes for the verses (with the words tweaked to tie in with the harvest festival), and using a chorus sung to the tune of "Oranges and Lemons". I’ve included a ‘demo’ of me ‘performing’ (for want of a better word) to give you the effect. I hope it helps!
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- Rather than just thanksgiving and harvest poems, I am conscious that it is good to have some harvest songs to perform for variety. This is my very simple but effective thanksgiving song, to the tune of "If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands". It goes through all of the different types of food (fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat etc), and is very adaptable if you want to amend it to include any of your own verses.
Suggested Harvest / Thanksgiving poem for older children…….
- This is my favourite of my harvest and thanksgiving poems, as it is visual as well and uses the letters of the word "HARVEST" held aloft to spell out 2 new words for each verse. Each word is relevant to harvest- time and highlights the message of each verse (eg SHARE, STARVE, HAVE, SAVE, etc). This also makes it a good poem to use in class as it uses the concept of anagrams which you could take further in class. I have chosen and ordered the words carefully to make the swapping around of the letters as minimal as possible so that is will be easy to perform , but I have included ‘stage directions’ in the poem script.
I will add more harvest and thanksgiving poems and songs as I write them. I hope you, the children, and your audience thoroughly enjoy them, and that they help to add to the message of your harvest festival or thanksgiving celebration.
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