Five Currant Buns

This is a traditional rhyme all my kids had fun singing: Five Currant Buns!

Materials: We prepared the props for the song with the kids: we made coloured salt dough (pink and green) and created five buns with cherries on top.

You can make your own money, by laminating silver or gold paper and cutting circles. We used laminated money downloaded from one of my favourite sites, Picklebums.

I changed the traditional lyrics, so we can learn the words “boy”, “girl”, “money”:

Five currant buns in a baker's shop. Round and fat with a cherry on the top, Along came a boy/girl with some money one day, Bought a currant bun and took it away.