Flannel Friday: The Trumpet Went Toot Toot Toot

April is Jazz Appreciation Month and we're celebrating at our library system. There's no lack of jazz curriculum for grade schoolers floating around the internet, Baby Loves Jazz CDs, or picture books on jazz that can be adapted for babies and toddlers but try and find a finger play or poem that can be adapted into a flannel board set. 

Go on, I dare you. 

Here's the one I came up with when the internet failed me, I call it "The Trumpet Went Toot, Toot, Toot"

The trumpet wanted to start a band

So he asked the saxophone to lend a hand

The trumpet went toot, toot, toot

And the sax sang be bop beep

The sound wasn't quite right

Then the drums marched into sight

The trumpet went "toot, toot, toot"

The sax sang "be bop beep"

And the drums said "a rat a tat tat"

But the sound still wasn't there

Then a piano song filled the air

The trumpet went "toot, toot, toot"

The sax sang "be bop beep"

The drums said "a rat a tat tat"

And the piano trilled "plink, plink, plink"

The sound was almost done

They just needed a bass to join the fun

The trumpet went "toot, toot, toot"

The sax sang "be bop beep"

The drums said "a rat a tat tat"

The piano trilled "plink, plink, plink"

And the bass answered "thump, thump, thump"

5 instruments in 1 great band

They play the swingingest jazz in all the land!