Submitted by Daniel J. Fee, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Idea posted July 18, 2003

If you ever do "You Gave Me Your Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie" (from Music K-8, Vol. 10, No. 5), here's an easy prop to use in the song:

  • Get cardboard pizza wheels from a pizza place. (They will probably donate them.)
  • Have the kids color chocolate chips on the brown cardboard side with brown and/or black markers/crayons. (The cardboard is about the same color as a cookie, so it's easy. You don't need to color the main cookie part!)
  • Have them cut little indentations/irregularities around the outside of the pizza wheel.

Now they can use these in the song. There is a "cookie dance" section in the middle of the song where they can move them and "dance" with them.

Today, I was telling the kids how their "cookies" were making some unnecessary noise as they accidentally rubbed against their shirts. Then I had them all show us the sound and was amazed at how cool it actually sounded. So now, during the introduction and once between verses, we're rubbing the cookies against our shirts for a little movement and cool sound!

Hey - it works, it's easy, they can't break, and they're cheap! Works for me!