Some shall have water and some shall

Snow Maiden:

Some shall have water and some shall have milk,

Some shall have satin and some shall have silk!

But each of us a presents may win,

So open your doors and let us in!

Children (opening the door, together): Oh, come in! Glad to meet you!

(The New Year and the Snow Maiden give presents to the children.)

WIND AND SNOWFLAKES

Wind:

Little snowflakes, come and play,

I’ve nothing else to do today.

Snowflakes:

Yes, we’ll come and oh, what fun,

We’ll twirl, and dance, and skip, and run.

Wind:

Come on, snowflakes, come with me,

There are many things to see.

Snowflakes:

Oh, now the sun is peeping through,

It feels quite warm. What shall we do?

Sun (to Wind):

Blow the snowflakes home again,

Before they melt and turn to rain.

Wind:

Who-oo! Who-oo! Home you go;

Hurry now, don’t be slow.

Snowflakes:

Come on, sisters, back we go

To where the earth is white with snow,

Good-bye, sun, we’re glad we came,

We really had a lovely game.

GETTING READY FOR WINTER

(Adapted from Alice Very)

Characters:

Blue-Bird Honey-Bee

Robin Field-Mouse

Rabbit Woodchuck

Chickadee Other

Squirrel Animals

Bumble-Bee and Birds

Setting: The edge of a cornfield in autumn.

At Rise: Blue-Bird, Robin and Chickadee are fluttering about. Rabbit and Woodchuck are peeping from burrows.

Blue-Bird:

The north wind blows,

And we shall have snow,

And what will poor Robin do then?

Robin:

He’ll fly to the South

With a song in his mouth

And come back in the springtime again.

Rabbit:

Old Willie Woodchuck,

Come out of your hole!

The birds are all flying away.

The frost and the snow.

Are making them go;

Not one of our playmates will stay.

Chickadee:

Chick-a-dee-dee!

You forgot about me.

Here I am, up in the apple-tree.

Let other birds roam;

I’ll stay here at home,

Singing chick-a-dee, chick-a-dee-dee!

Blue-Bird:

And what will you eat?

And where will you go

When here all the branches

Are covered with snow?

Robin:

Won’t you be hungry?

And won’t you be cold?

Chickadee:

Oh, no, I’ll have all

That I’m able to hold.

All the things I’ve found

In the old apple-tree

Make the kind of food

For a small chickadee.

Squirrel (coming out from behind the tree):

It’s easy for things

That have feathers and wings

And can fly far away to the South,

I haven’t got wings

Or other good things,

So I carry home nuts in my mouth.

Woodchuck (creeping out of the hole):

Old Mother Squirrel,

Don’t make such a fuss,

You’re much better off

Than people like us.

Squirrel:

Old Willie Woodchuck,

Go back to your hole,

The north wind is blowing,

I’m afraid you’ll catch cold!

Woodchuck:

All summer I dined

On the best I could find

And ate all

My stomach could hold,

But now, in the autumn,

I can get just nothing.

Just nothing at all, but a cold!

Rabbit:

The summer was good,

There was plenty of food.

Now winter is near,

And good things disappear.

Bumble-Bee:

All summer I bumbled

From flower to flower,

But what shall I do when

The summer is over?

Honey-Bee:

Big Brother Bumble,

You don’t need to grumble,

You wasted the bright summer hours.

For you were so lazy,

You sat on a daisy,

Just smelling the grass and the flowers.

Bumble-Bee:

Ha-ha-ha! You sound rather funny!

Honey-Bee:

Do I? I have honey,

Yes, I have a lot of it.

Rabbit:

I with I were you.

Honey-Bee:

If you were a bee

Then you’d have been working

All summer like me.

Woodchuck:

Who’s working all summer?

It’s Bee, the old hummer.

You’d never get me

To work like a bee.

Bumble-Bee:

I heard that you could

Chuck wood if you would.

Woodchuck:

I would if I could

Chuck wood if you would.

Woodchuck:

I would if I could,

But wood is no good.

Rabbit:

Oh, dear, it’s true!

It makes me blue

To think of what we’re coming to!

Field-Mouse (peeping out from a corn shock):

Don’t you care!

Everywhere

There’s enough and some to spare.

Rabbit:

What was that?

Field-Mouse:

A little mouse.

Rabbit:

Where are you?

Field-Mouse:

In my winter house.

Under the corn shock,

Nice and warm,

I have a room all full of corn.

Squirrel:

I don’t think it’s true,

A little thing like you

Couldn’t get all that corn

And a little house, too!

Field-Mouse:

Well, then, just to show you

I’ve plenty to eat,

I’ll bring you some corn

And also some wheat.

Let everyone bring

For the others some food,

And we shall have dinner,

And it will be good.

ТHE SNOW MAIDEN

(A Russian Fairy-Tale)

Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. They lived together very happily, and their only sorrow was that they had no children.

Then came the winter with its frosts and snow. Many children played in the street. The old man and woman sat at home, looking out of the window, thinking of their sorrow. The old man said to the old woman, “Let’s make a daughter out of the snow”, “Let’s said the old woman”.

And they went into the garden and began to make a daughter out of the snow. They rolled a big snowball, made arms and legs and at last a snow head. Then the old man made a little nose and mouth and then a chin. Suddenly the Snow Maiden’s lips turned red and her eyes opened. She looked at the old people, smiling. Then she nodded her head and began to move her hands and feet. She looked like a real little girl.

“We always wanted a little girl like you”, said the old woman.

“I always wanted to have a mother and father”, said the Snow Maiden.

The old people were happy and took the girl into their cottage. They admired their daughter every