Lyrics of the song “Lullaby about an elephant”
Lullaby story about an elephant:
Stay on the pillow, but open your ears wider. On Sunday before going to bed there will be a meeting with an elephant. You know, the homeland of the elephant is a very hot country. There elephants live in the forest, chewing juicy leaves. And then they go to the river and drink water from the river. They take water into their trunk and pour it on their back. They have fun swimming and rinsing in the river. This big elephant lives in the zoo all year round. And people gather around the cage on Sunday. The elephant comes very close and bows low to the children. He takes a banana with his trunk and puts it in his open mouth. He puts both radishes and carrots into his mouth very deftly. The elephant looks happy and has a good appetite. The only bad thing is that he doesn’t say thank you to anyone. And sometimes the elephant is domestic. At home he's not scary at all. He carries bananas on his back and carries trees in his trunk. Boys ride on it like a horse. Even the girls sit down, Because they are not afraid. And an elephant can be an artist if he performs in the circus. There he rides on a ball and dances funny together with a clumsy teddy bear in pink pants. All elephants sleep standing up at night. This is not an easy matter. If an elephant lies in bed, He will not be able to get out of it. A giraffe sleeps standing nearby. You can't hide it in the closet. Because you don't have enough closet for a giraffe. Well, go to bed. Tomorrow morning you will get up early, do a quick exercise, wash your hands under the tap, eat with your mother, and listen to bedtime stories. Because Banilaska brings these tales to the house. The kindest storyteller in the world, He only goes to obedient children.
Lullaby about an elephant:
There is a gray cat outside the window. He's wandering around somewhere near the house. Now he leaves, now he comes, singing a lullaby. Now he leaves, now he comes, He sings to you about an elephant.
The elephant has a lot to do. He got up very early in the morning. I've been carrying bananas all day and now my back hurts. I've been carrying bananas all day and now my back hurts.
After dinner, the elephant says goodbye to its neighbor. He will go to sleep in a large cage and have a dream. He will go to sleep in a large cage and have a dream.
I have to get up early tomorrow. Say goodbye to Banilaska. The children close their eyes, Roma will also sleep. The children close their eyes, and Ilyusha will sleep. The children close their eyes, and Svetlana will sleep. The children close their eyes, Ksyusha will also sleep. Children close their eyes...... will sleep.
Fairy tale “How the Baby Elephant Found Friends”
Svetlana Mikhailova
Fairy tale “How the Baby Elephant Found Friends”
Preface to the fairy tale.
The reason for the fairy tale was an incident from the life of our group. One fine day, one of the students brought finger theater toys to the group. The toys turned out to be very funny, interesting and convenient for children to play with, but the girl did not want to share with the children; she played by herself all day. Then I had to come up with gaming motivation. The finger theater set includes a baby elephant , a tiger cub, monkeys, parrots, frogs, and bears. I decided to beat them. Having received permission from the owner of this theater, I came up with this instructive tale about friendship .
“Once upon a time there was a Baby Elephant . He had no friends . And he so wanted to be friends with someone, to play, to have fun. And he decided to find friends . The baby went to his mother and asked:
- Mom, how can I find friends ?
Mom replied:
“ You will find friends on your own , you just need to do a good deed for someone.”
Elephant thought for a long time about what good deed he should do, but he couldn’t come up with anything. He went home upset, sad, tears were rolling from his eyes.
A little giraffe was walking towards him. The baby elephant happily came up and offered to be his friend. But the Giraffe looked at the Baby Elephant and asked :
- What can you do?
- Nothing. I'm still little.
- Do you know how to stretch your neck high and get bananas and leaves from a palm tree?
- No I do not know how to.
“I won’t be friends with you,” said the Giraffe .
The Baby Elephant became even more sad . Sighing and crying, he walked along the road and did not notice that someone was throwing bananas at him. Raising his head up, the baby Elephant saw the frolicking Monkey. The Baby Elephant was delighted : “It would be nice to frolic with her!” The monkey, jumping from liana to liana, did not notice the Baby Elephant . The baby elephant shouted to her :
- I want to be friends with you!
To which the Monkey laughed and asked:
- Do you know how to jump from branch to branch, swing on long vines, like on a swing?
“No,” answered the Baby Elephant .
Having fun and laughing, the Monkey continued to swing, jump and throw bananas and coconuts down.
“Again I didn’t find any friends ,” sighed the Elephant Child .
Suddenly, next to the Elephant, someone said loudly:
- Kwa-kwa! You almost crushed me! Kwa-kwa!
-Excuse me please! I didn't notice you. And who are you?
- I, Frog-Kwa-kva-shonok.
- Let's be friends with you.
- Can you croak?
- No, I just want to be friends, but I have no one to make friends with.
Frog-Kwa-kvashonok croaked goodbye and disappeared into the swamp hummocks.
Sighing with sadness, the Baby Elephant did not notice how he approached the big sea. A Dolphin swam and played in it. The baby elephant so wanted to swim with the Dolphin and sail far, far away, beyond the forests, beyond the seas, beyond the mountains, to find his friends . The baby elephant came closer to the sea and took warm sea water into its trunk. The sun heated everything around with its warm rays. It was very hot and stuffy. The baby elephant raised its trunk up and a small fountain flowed from there. It became cold for the Baby Elephant . He was glad that he had learned how to start a fountain and decided to water the grass, palm tree, flowers, swamp hummocks and everything around him. All the little animals came running to the cheerful murmur of the fountain. They rejoiced with the baby Elephant and shouted in delight:
- Well done, Baby Elephant ! You brought us coolness with your magical water. Thank you. You did the greatest good deed, saving us from the heat. You are a true friend! We will be friends with you! - said the Giraffe , the Monkey, the Little Frog and the Dolphin.
The baby elephant jumped for joy, flapped his big ears, and hurried to his mother with the good news.
-Mom, mom, I found friends ! Now I know what needs to be done so that I have many good, true friends .
Since then, Baby Elephant , Baby Giraffe, Monkey, Little Frog and Little Dolphin have never parted. They are still friends!
Baby elephant
In ancient times, my dears, an elephant did not have a trunk. He only had a blackish thick nose, the size of a boot, which swayed from side to side, and the elephant could not lift anything with it. But one elephant appeared in the world, a young elephant, a baby elephant, who was distinguished by his restless curiosity and constantly asked some questions.
He lived in Africa and conquered all of Africa with his curiosity. He asked his tall uncle the ostrich why feathers grew on his tail; The tall uncle ostrich beat him for this with his hard, hard paw. He asked his tall aunt giraffe why her skin was spotted; The tall aunt of the giraffe beat him with her hard, hard hoof for this. And yet his curiosity did not subside!
He asked his fat uncle the hippopotamus why his eyes were red; For this, the fat hippopotamus beat him with his wide, wide hoof.
He asked his hairy uncle the baboon why melons taste this way and not another; For this, the hairy uncle baboon beat him with his shaggy, furry hand.
And yet his curiosity did not subside! He asked questions about everything he saw, heard, tasted, smelled, felt, and all the uncles and aunties beat him for it. And yet his curiosity did not subside!
One fine morning before the spring equinox, a restless baby elephant asked a new strange question. He asked:
— What does a crocodile have for lunch?
Everyone shouted “shhh” loudly and began to beat him for a long time, non-stop.
When they finally left him alone, the baby elephant saw a bell bird sitting on a thorn bush and said:
“My father beat me, my mother beat me, my uncles and aunts beat me for my “restless curiosity,” but I still want to know what a crocodile has for lunch!
The colo-colo bird croaked gloomily in response to him:
“Go to the bank of the big gray-green muddy Limpopo River, where the fever trees grow, and see for yourself!”
The next morning, when the equinox had already ended, the restless baby elephant took one hundred pounds of bananas (small with red skin), one hundred pounds of sugar cane (long with dark bark) and seventeen melons (green, crunchy) and declared to his dear relatives:
- Goodbye! I go to the big grey-green muddy Limpopo River, where the fever trees grow, to find out what the crocodile has for lunch.
He left, a little heated, but not at all surprised. On the way he ate melons and threw away the peels because he could not pick them up.
He walked and walked northeast and kept eating melons until he came to the bank of the large gray-green muddy Limpopo River, where the fever trees grow, as the bell-colo bird told him. I must tell you, my dears, that until that very week, until that very day, until that very hour, until that very minute, the restless little elephant had never seen a crocodile and did not even know what he looked like.
The first one that caught the baby elephant's eye was a two-colored python (a huge snake) coiled around a rocky block.
“Excuse me,” the baby elephant said politely, “have you seen a crocodile in these parts?”
-Have I seen a crocodile? - the python exclaimed angrily. - What a question?
“Excuse me,” repeated the baby elephant, “but can you tell me what the crocodile has for lunch?”
The two-colored python instantly turned around and began to hit the baby elephant with its heavy, very heavy tail.
- Strange! - remarked the baby elephant. “My father and mother, my own uncle and my own aunt, not to mention another uncle the hippopotamus and a third uncle the baboon, everyone beat me for my “restless curiosity.” Probably, now I get the same punishment for this.
He politely said goodbye to the python, helped him wrap himself around the rocky block again and walked on, a little heated, but not at all surprised. On the way he ate melons and threw away the peels because he could not pick them up. Near the very bank of the large gray-green muddy Limpopo River, he stepped on something that seemed to him to be a log. However, in reality it was a crocodile. Yes, my dears. And the crocodile winked his eye - like that.
“Excuse me,” the baby elephant said politely, “have you ever encountered a crocodile in these parts?”
Then the crocodile squinted his other eye and stuck his tail half out of the mud. The baby elephant politely backed away; he didn't want to be beaten again.
“Come here, little one,” said the crocodile.
- Why are you asking about this?
“Excuse me,” the little elephant answered politely, “but my father beat me, my mother beat me, not to mention Uncle Ostrich and Aunt Giraffe, who fights just as painfully as Uncle Hippopotamus and Uncle Baboon.” Even here on the shore, a two-colored python beat me, and with its heavy, heavy tail it beats me more painfully than all of them. If you don't care, then please, at least don't hit me.
“Come here, little one,” repeated the monster. - I am a crocodile.
And to prove it, he burst into crocodile tears. The baby elephant even took his breath away with joy. He knelt down and said:
“You are the one I have been looking for for many days.” Please tell me what you have for lunch?
“Come here, little one,” answered the crocodile, “I’ll tell you in your ear.”
The baby elephant bent his head to the toothy, fetid mouth of the crocodile. And the crocodile grabbed him by the nose, which until that day and hour was no bigger than a boot, although much more useful.
“It seems today,” the crocodile said through his teeth, like this, “it seems that today I will have a baby elephant for lunch.”
The baby elephant didn’t like this at all, my dears, and he said through his nose, like this:
- No need! Let me in!
The baby elephant's nose continued to stretch out. The baby elephant braced himself with all four legs and pulled, pulled, pulled, and his nose continued to stretch out. The crocodile scooped the water with its tail, like an oar, and the baby elephant pulled, pulled, pulled. With every minute his nose stretched out - and how it hurt him, oh-oh-oh!
The little elephant felt that his legs were slipping, and said through his nose, which was now two arshins long:
- You know, this is already too much!
Then a two-colored python came to the rescue. He wrapped himself in a double ring around the baby elephant's hind legs and said:
- Reckless and rash youth! We must now work hard, otherwise that warrior in armor (he meant the crocodile, my dears) will ruin your entire future.
He pulled, and the baby elephant pulled, and the crocodile pulled.
But the baby elephant and the two-colored python pulled harder.
Finally, the crocodile released the baby elephant's nose with such a splash that was heard along the entire Limpopo River.
The baby elephant fell on its back. However, he did not forget to immediately thank the two-colored python, and then began to take care of his poor elongated nose: he wrapped it in fresh banana leaves and plunged it into the large gray-green muddy Limpopo River.
- What are you doing? - asked the two-colored python.
“Sorry,” said the baby elephant, “but my nose has completely lost its shape, and I’m waiting for it to shrink.”
“Well, you’ll have to wait a long time,” said the two-colored python. “It’s amazing how others don’t understand their own good.”
“Thank you,” said the little elephant. - I will follow your advice. Now I'll go to my people and try it on them.
The baby elephant walked home across Africa, twisting and turning his trunk. When he wanted to eat the fruits, he picked them from the tree, and did not wait, as before, for them to fall on their own. When he wanted grass, he, without bending down, pulled it out with his trunk, and did not crawl on his knees, as before. When flies bit him, he broke off a branch and fanned himself with it.
And when the sun got hot, he made himself a new cool cap from the mud. When he was bored with walking, he hummed a song, and through his trunk it sounded louder than copper pipes.
He deliberately turned off the road to find some fat hippopotamus (not a relative) and give him a good beating. The baby elephant wanted to see if the two-colored python was right about his new trunk. All the time he was picking up the melon peels that he had thrown on the road to Limpopo: he was distinguished by his neatness.
One dark evening he returned to his people and, holding his trunk with a ring, said:
- Hello!
They were very happy with him and answered:
- Come here, we’ll beat you for “restless curiosity.”
- Bah! - said the baby elephant. “You don’t know how to hit at all.” But look how I fight.
He turned his trunk and hit his two brothers so hard that they rolled over.
- Oh oh oh! - they exclaimed. - Where did you learn such things?.. Wait, what’s on your nose?
“I got a new nose from a crocodile on the bank of the big gray-green muddy Limpopo River,” said the baby elephant. “I asked him what he had for lunch, and he gave me this.”
“It’s not nice,” said the hairy baboon.
“True,” answered the little elephant, “but it’s very convenient.”
With these words, he grabbed his hairy uncle the baboon by the shaggy hand and thrust him into the hornets' nest.
Then the baby elephant began to beat other relatives. They were very excited and very surprised. The baby elephant plucked the tail feathers from his tall uncle, the ostrich. Grabbing his tall aunt giraffe by the hind leg, he dragged her through the thorn bushes. The baby elephant screamed at his fat uncle the hippopotamus and blew bubbles into his ear as he slept in the water after lunch. But he did not allow anyone to offend the colo-colo bird.
Relations became so strained that all the relatives, one after another, hurried to the bank of the large gray-green muddy Limpopo River, where the fever trees grow, to get new noses from the crocodile. When they returned back, no one fought anymore. From that time on, my dears, all the elephants you see, and even those you don’t see, have the same trunks as the restless baby elephant.
