Age: 0 to 5 and older
Goal Area: Listening skills, Thanksgiving
Name of Activity: Yummy Yummy-O
Objective: Kids follow implied directions of song lyrics, and sing/vocalize “Yummy, oh” or other applicable sound that would be beneficial.
Materials: song and kids
Submitted by: Margie@musictherapytunes.com
Tune: Old McDonald
Source: Yummy-O by Dr. Thomas Moore on his “Sing a Song of Holidays CD.”
C F C
Turkey time is here again,
C G C
Yummy Yummy-O
C F C
The turkeys all are in the pen,
C G C
Yummy Yummy-O
With a gobble-gobble here
F
And a gobble-gobble there;
C F
Here a gobble, there a gobble
C F
Everywhere a gobble-gobble.
C F C
Turkey time is here again,
C G C
Yummy Yummy-OThey gobble, gobble when they talk,
Yummy Yummy-O
They strut so proudly when they walk,
Yummy Yummy-O
With a strut-strut here, etc.
(repeat gobble gobble sounds)
Turkey time is here again,
Yummy Yummy-OTheir chins are red, their necks are long,
Yummy Yummy-O
And soon they’ll sing another song,
Yummy Yummy-O
With a squawk-squawk here, etc.
(repeat strut and gobble sounds)
Turkey time is here again,
Yummy Yummy-O
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