Make magic maps and magic mats: provide different sized paper and a selection of markers, felt-tip pens, crayons and pencils, large rolls of paper on the floor make for excellent collaborative map-making and mat-making.Enhance your writing area, with ‘magic’ pens and pencils, rings and lamps to help stimulate imaginative writing, poems and ‘spells’.Suitable treasure could include: a string of beads metal coins pine cone smooth stone shaky egg a piece of velvet a feather a wooden brick Place different items into the box for children to touch and discover and help develop the children’s vocabulary. These can then be used as provocations - eg lost genie treasure, maps and secret books with clues about hidden treasure Make a collection of genie resources, such as turbans, treasure chest, jewels, maps, etc. Genie dressing up: curtain ring earrings ‘magic’ rings fabric turbans.Enhance your role play provision with gems and jewels, coins and ‘treasure’, a treasure chest, maps, and telescopes.You can mime or sign actions to the words with rubbing hands, and body movements.

This is the way we fly so high upon our magic carpet. This is the way we fly so high, fly so high, fly so high This is the way we rub a lamp to summon up the genie. This is the way we rub a lamp, rub a lamp, rub a lamp.

On second listening, encourage the chi ldren to retell the story using the props to help with the story sequence.įinal rhyme: ‘This is the way we rub a lamp’ To hold attention and to help engage the children you can show pictures and artefacts, such as a lamp, a mat, shiny coins, pearls, treasure, etc.

Repeat with hand as a flying carpet, up, down, round and round.

With my magic carpet, I fly here, I fly there

Cat wishes for a ride on a magic carpet.

Repeat the song with ‘rubbing’ actions and asking the children to decide: ‘I’d wish for.’.

When the rhyme is repeated encourage the children to join in with the appropriate actions.

Encourage the children to listen and hear the rhyming words: ‘true’ / ‘you’.

With a rub, rub, here and a rub, rub there. I’m the genie of the lamp, I can grant them for you. I’m the genie of the lamp, I make wishes come true. Song: ‘I’m the Genie of the lamp’ (tune - ‘Down in the jungle’)

Cat then invites the children to think about making wishes and introduces the idea of the ‘Genie in the lamp’.

Cat invites the listeners to guess the sounds: coins chinking, someone digging.

Encourage ‘good listening’ for the individual sounds we may hear.

Listen all around: coins chinking, magic sounds, digging.

Key vocabulary: magic, wishes, treasure, lamp, genie.

Aladdin rub the lamp song