Performance:

You could use this chant as it is or as a basis for your own version of Little Red Riding Hood.  In one class, you might decide to several children all playing the same role together. For example, you could have 3 Little Red Riding Hoods. They can speak in chorus or take turns.

• Little Red Riding Hood Is walking in the wood. She’s going to see her Grandma. Little Red Riding Hood.

• The child or children who are playing the part of Little Red Riding Hood skip, dance or walk happily as if through a wood. They can carry baskets.

• The flowers and the trees Are dancing in the breeze They’re very pretty, The flowers and the trees The children who are playing the part of the flowers and trees (and birds) dance and move happily as Little Red Riding Hood continues to walk along the path in the woods. LRRH could be walking around in a large circle or up and down the classroom.

• Little Red Riding Hood Is knocking on the door "Where are you, Grandma? I’m Little Red Riding Hood"

• Little Red Riding Hood knocks on a door. This can be an imaginary door, or you could make a small one from a large piece of stiff card. As she knocks, the children could all make knocking gestures or you could add percussion here and have a child banging on a drum.

• The Big Bad Wolf Is opening the door! "Oh no, oh no! The Big Bad Wolf!"

• The child or children taking the role of the wolf mimes opening a door. For this verse, encourage the children to change their voices to add fear and suspense.

• "Look at his eyes! Look at his ears! Look at his big bad teeth!" As the children chant this they could speak more slowly and make their voices sound high-pitched and frightened. Red Riding Hood should react appropriately, looking scared.

• "Where’s Grandma, where’s Grandma? Oh no, no! Where’s Grandma, where’s Grandma? We don’t know!"

• All the children could look around and from side to side, as if searching for Grandma. Again, they can express fear through the tone of their voices.

• Little Red Riding Hood Is running away. "Run, run, very fast Little Red Riding Hood!" Now Little Red Riding Hood runs away from the wolf. The trees and flowers could help her here and prevent the wolf from catching her.

• "Daddy’s got the wolf! Daddy’s got the wolf! Go away, go away, Big Bad Wolf!" Dad (or the woodcutter) to the rescue! The child or children playing the part of the father capture the wolf and hold him around his tummy so that he can’t get away. This part will need careful staging so that the children don’t become too boisterous! Then the wolf should walk away, looking ashamed.

• Little Red Riding Hood Is dancing in the wood With the trees, the flowers and Grandma And Daddy in the wood! Now everybody dances.

Of course you can include the child or children playing the wolf in this final verse. Then the children stop, hold hands and take a bow.