Tidy Up (“Jingle Bells”)
Chorus:
Tidy up, tidy up,
put your things away.
Tidy up, tidy up,
we’re finished for today.
Oh, tidy up, tidy
up, put your things away.
For we’ll get them
out again another school day.
We’ve had lots of
fun as we’ve worked and played.
Now it’s time to
all join in and play the clean up game.
Chorus.
I See Someone
Cleaning Up! (“London Bridge”)
I see child’s
name cleaning up,
Cleaning up,
cleaning up.
I see child’s
name cleaning up,
Just like second
child’s name.
Continue singing
the name of children who are helpers.
*Get a flashlight
and shine it on the child as you sing their name.
Magic Trash
Select one random
piece of trash to be the “magic trash.”
Have children
pick up the
room. As they dump the paper and
scraps in the trashcan,
inspect what they
have in their hands. The one to
find the “magic trash”
gets a sticker.
Timer
To help prepare children for clean up time
set a timer for three minutes. Explain, “You have three more
minutes. When the timer goes off
we will have a whisper clean up.”
Who You Gonna Call?
Send a letter home asking if anyone has an
old dust buster to donate to your classroom. Choose one person each day to be the “dust buster.” When there’s a mess shout, “Who you
gonna call?” Children respond,
“Dust buster!” The designated
“dust buster” of the day GETS to clean up the mess.
