Here's another rhyming challenge full of Muddles and Mayhem! Read it as it is - OR - Why not change the names? Use the ones from your class at school or your brownie group? Just make sure to include your teachers and leaders - after all, they're the ones who are ALWAYS in trouble!
THE DAY NUMBER SEVEN DISAPPEARED!
Megan, Oliver and William were first to arrive
While Amy and Ella eyed up the donkey ride
Mrs Arnott hurried to knock on the giant shed door
Ushering them in quickly before the rain began to pour
On the day number seven disappeared...
In walked two Zoo keepers - each holding a cage
Millie ooh'd at the parrot, Olli laughed at the Drake
Libby and Harris pointed and giggled
At the box on the floor where two ferrets wriggled.
Now Blake and Daisy thought the pigmy pigs ace
While Laya nudged Emma
Who stared at a sack that jiggled and squirmed
With no idea what was inside,
On the day number seven disappeared...
Mrs Rawnsley was busy unpacking a feed sack
As Sam, Finlay and Isabelle held onto 3 frisky black rats.
Theo wasn't sure, Luca gave a shiver
When Reese and James ran to the tank of giant beetles,
Darcey and Olivia helped with the goats
While Lexi and Freya got to brush the rabbit's long coats
Mayah and Erin got the surprise of their lives
As two tall Llamas trotted on by
On the day number seven disappeared...
Out from a crate a keeper delivered
A cage with 7 long-eared mice and one very green lizard.
Jessica and Ellie tried hard not to flinch
At the lizard's blue tongue that flickered and twitched.
Everyone giggled when the parrot - croaked
'You smell funny - pieces of eight -now get off me boat!'
But Brooke and Jay gave a shriek of delight
When up from the floor came a snake from that sack!
On the day number seven disappeared...
Jack and Alfie handed out some animal treats
Lettuce and carrots, all chopped into bits
Stanley tempted the Drake with worms
That wriggled and squiggled -
(Mrs Rawnsley tried not to squirm.)
Everyone was doing really well
But then - that parrot spotted the bag of Brazil (nuts)!
On the day number seven disappeared...
With a squawk Bertie flew up into the air
Catching a claw in Mrs Arnott's hair,
She yelped, Mia ducked and bumped into a goat,
Which reared, tripped
knocked Olivia on top of the coats,
With a bray and a grunt the kid-goats tried to run
Knocking rabbits and lizard
But the ferrets thought this was fun!
One wriggled inside a keeper's wellie
Nibbling his toes so he danced like a jelly...
Then with a squawk Bertie fluttered to the top
Of the cage with the mice and...
KNOCKED THE DOOR LATCH OFF!!
On the day number seven disappeared...
NO - yelled Mrs Arnott which startled the kids
Blake was laughing but held on tight to a pig.
Lexi and Freya calmed two very angry rats,
While Mrs Rawnsley grabbed a Llama, which butted and spat,
Meanwhile Alfie followed a tail
The first mouse he nabbed by the watering pail.
Jack caught the second,
but it was Ella who grabbed the next,
snatching it from the snake's wide jaws
and saving it from certain death.
'There's one' cried a keeper, as number four raced away
Stanley made a diving catch, now only three remained.
Laya found the next as it nibbled on Mayah's red shoe
And Reese caught the sixth eating through a pineapple chew.
Under boxes, inside bales they hunted all around
But that slippery seventh little mouse was nowhere to be found.
On the day number seven disappeared...
The keepers said, at the end of their time,
'Don't you worry; number seven will be just fine,'
But everyone felt a little sad as onto their bus they climbed,
No one felt like saying much
While the driver started the engine
Then...
Mrs Rawnsley gave a sudden yelp
and sprang into the aisle
she wriggled and jiggled, gave another shout,
As the back of her jacket began twisting about
Twitching one way and another
She squiggled and wiggled like a snake...
Isabelle giggled though she pretended she didn't,
William hid sniggers
And then everyone began to clap and cheer,
From the top of her jacket a mouse's head appeared
Whiskers, long ears the lot...
The mystery of that rodent was solved at last
On the day number seven disappeared!
The end
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Children's Poems and Rhyming Tales - Muddles & Mayhem!
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