Lesson Plan
Bake, Sing, and Sell Hot Cross Buns
Created May 17, 2024 | Added August 16, 2025
In this imaginative lesson, students ‘bake’ with beanbags, step and sing while selling their wares, and explore musical concepts through play.
- Circle Baking Game
- Students sit in a circle, each with a bean bag (“the dough”).
- Make the buns: Press–Press–Turn (to the rhythm of Hot Cross Buns).
- Ask: “Do you like sprinkles?” → “Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle” (sung on the “one-a-penny” phrase).
- Bake: Slide the buns into the oven for 8 counts (sing up the scale).
- Put on a glove, take them out, and “eat them up” (yum!).
- “Let’s make some more!” Repeat the process, singing the song each time.
- Selling the Buns
- Students stand and move to their own “corner” (learning independent space).
- Step the rhythm of the song while holding up their “wares.”
- Call on a student to sing the price.
- Some students act as customers from the “Land of the Singing Voice.”
- To buy and sell, students must sing their exchanges.
- Traveling to New Towns
- After selling out, students “ride” to the next town (on bikes, scooters, airplanes, etc.).
- When they hear the Hot Cross Buns song, they know to step, sing, and sell again.
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