Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Repair Kit Stump School
Child-facing question: Can three friends disagree about the first piece, let the audience change the count, and assemble one useful picture without forcing a single answer too early? Dominant anchor: Three answers → two kit sides → one joined image. Cast: Lex gives the square answer and later places the square. Callen Crow gives the sloped answer, reverses the repair kit, and later places the roof-shape while remaining clothed and anthropomorphic. Emmitt gives the round answer, notices the seed-husk audience, and later places the clear dot. Lillian and Zylar were considered as available, but the named trio already completes the three-answer count and exact three-piece image.
Rhyme
Three Answers, One Lantern Picture
Three paths reached toward reed-dock inlet
under blue after-rain light.
Lex came from one open side.
Callen and Emmitt came from the right.
At stump-school yard, the repair kit opened.
“Square first,” Lex replied.
“Sloped first,” Callen answered.
“Round first,” Emmitt tried.
Three answers shared the fingerplay.
No answer had to win.
Callen reversed the kit’s two sides
and found an opening within.
“Three answers,” counted Emmitt.
“Two kit sides,” Callen called.
“One joined picture,” Lex replied,
after the pieces all were turned.
They reversed before bridge alcove.
The pieces stayed apart.
Three dew-bright seed husks faced the kit,
like listeners around the yard.
The audience became the final verse:
one husk by the square,
one husk by the sloped roof-shape,
one husk by the clear round dot.
Lex placed one square.
Callen placed one roof-shape.
Emmitt placed one clear dot.
The three flat pieces joined.
The result was one lantern picture—
unlit, simple, easy to see.
Square, roof, dot: three changed answers
made room for one shared image.
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Spoken reverse-counting fingerplay with optional answer, count down, flip, place, and listening gestures.
Estimated spoken length: About 90 seconds.
Ways to Join In
- Answer square, sloped, or round; disagreement is allowed.
- Count three answers, two kit sides, one joined picture.
- Place one square, one roof-shape, and one clear dot beside the seed-husk audience.