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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes  Number rhymes Activity printables, counting songs and poems for preschool nursery           5 Five currant bun role play props   A familiar early years counting rhyme with a suprising number of lyrical variations, this page opts for the language big, round and a cherry. Buy and download the best matched 5 currant bun song on amazon.co.uk five currant buns MP3 and  a karaoke version. Please scroll down for an illustrated selection of role playing, prop printables! illustrated by Ruth Grimes copyright © 2015    5 currant buns in a baker's shop big and round with a cherry on the top. along came ... (insert name) with a penny one day, bought a currant bun and took it away.   Preschool currant buns rhyme printables   Currant bun picture printables   Outline currant buns    Currant bun rhyme tokens - money    Colour baker shop background sheet   Outline currant bun shop - background role play   Currant bun activity sheet  add a number of currants with fingerprints, paint, collage     Shop window currant buns for sale sheet    Outline currant bun for sale picture     5 Currant buns preschool number rhyme cards   To make a bakery shop background, print the front image and a cake stand picture and join them together.  Use hook and look tape if you'd like to attach the currant buns to the sheets during play. Distribute as many currant bun pennies as needed and use an equal number of buns. Adapt the title of the rhyme to match eg. 24 currant buns in a bakers shop, big and round ... Where many customers are expected to buy a currant bun have 2 children come up during a single round of song. Laminate the resource pieces as wanted and share with parents to continue enjoying the rhyme at home.   To play Sing the first two lines of the rhyme and then at 3rd, invite a, or more volunteer customers to come up to the shop and buy a currant bun with their token penny. Finish the rhyme with the last line as children walk away. Repeat as many times as necessary so that everyone has a bun or end when your shop's footfall  finishes :) An alternative way to play is to have finger slip buns or face masks for children to act as currant uns & to be bought. Alternative game play involves currant bun face masks and 5+ children as they role play being currant buns! adapt the rhyme to .. Along came ... with a friendly handshake, asked a currant bun and took them right away. Have fun with this great name introducing rhyme    Additional resources Currant bun glove puppet on amazon.co.uk Google search for Currant bun knitting pattern