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2007 Texas Reading Club Manual
Then there were four.
Four little snakes, happy and alive,
They called for a friend. Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
Then there were five!
Puppet Show
Inch Worm
(Traditional. Adapted by Debbie Brightwell Brown. This is an easy one-person puppet
play. The puppet worm crawls across floor, up the wall, across the ceiling and down the
other wall as you recite the poem.)
Puppets and Props
Worm puppet or a gloved hand with a finger made to look like a worm
Puppet stage or box
Inch worm, inch worm, crawls across the floor.
Inch worm, inch worm, crawls up the door.
Inch worm, inch worm, I hope he doesn’t fall.
Inch worm, inch worm, comes down the other wall.
Inch worm, inch worm, you are an amazing one.
Inch worm, inch worm, watching you is fun!
Crafts
Crazy Caterpillars
Materials
Small paper plates, uncoated
Crayons or markers
Yarn
Glue stick (or staples)
Directions
Cut enough yarn into 3-inch lengths so that each child will have six pieces. Give each
child three small paper plates. Instruct them to draw eyes on one plate and color all three
plates. After the plates are colored, let the children glue them in a row with over-lapping
edges to create a caterpillar. Let the children glue the yarn pieces along the bottom of the
caterpillar for legs. Caterpillar pieces can also be stapled together and the yarn taped onto
the plates.
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