Camping Prop Story & Song

A Camping We Will Go
Original Author Unknown
Source: “Camping Songs, Poems, & Fingerplays.” Edited by Shelly Boone, Pre-K Fun, www.prekfun.com/themes/prekthemes/a-f/Camping/Camping__Songs.htm. Accessed 5 Aug. 2023.
Adapted slightly by: CK Emanuel
To the tune of: The Farmer in the Dell

Refrain (Depending on size of group, do between every object or every 2-3 objects)
All:
A camping we will go.
A camping we will go.
Hi-ho, we’re off to the woods.
A camping we will go.

Verse
Leader: Who will bring the [object]?
Child: [Name] will bring the [object]!
All: Hi-ho, we’re off to the woods.
[Name] will bring the [object].

Optional Actions:
Camping: ASL for camping
Hi-ho: Pump arms as if speed walking
Woods: ASL for forest/woods

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