Four Hungry Ants

A fun flannel rhyme that has a fun twist to the traditional "Five Little Whatsits".

You can use as many or as few ants as you'd like.  I usually do four or six just to be different!

I introduce this rhyme by asking the children if they have ever been on a picnic.  I also ask them what they take to eat.  Do they ever take...a salad? (add the salad piece to the flannel board)  Do you ever take...a cake?  What about this?  (they usually say it's salt, but I tell them it's not salt, but that this can make you sneeze...pepper).  Who (or what bug) likes to come to picnics and eat your food?

Count the ants as you add them to the flannel board.

Four Hungry Ants

Four hungry ants marching in a line

They came upon a picnic where they could dine.

One marched into the salad

Then he marched into the cake

He marched into the pepper

But that was a mistake!

Aaaah! Aaaah! Choo!

That poor little ant sneezed so hard he flew right off the flannel board! (The kids love it!)

Three hungry ants marching in a line

They came upon a picnic where they could dine.

One marched into the salad

Then he marched into the cake

He marched into the pepper

But that was a mistake!

Aaaah! Aaaah! Choo!

Two hungry ants marching in a line

They came upon a picnic where they could dine.

One marched into the salad

Then he marched into the cake

He marched into the pepper

But that was a mistake!

Aaaah! Aaaah! Choo!

One hungry ant marching in a line

He came upon a picnic where he could dine.

He marched into the salad

Then he marched into the cake

He marched into the pepper

But that was a mistake!

Aaaah! Aaaah! Choo!