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Sep 29, 2018 - Explore Mary Donohoe's board 'I'm a Little Teapot' on Pinterest. See more ideas about nursery rhymes activities, nursery rhymes preschool, nursery rhymes. The popular nursery rhyme “I’m a little teapot” takes on new meaning when considering the transformation of teapot design during the 20th and 21st century. The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot client error response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot. A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should instead return 503. This error is a reference to Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol defined in April Fools' jokes in 1998 and 2014. I'm A Little Teapot is a children's song/Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme that only appeared in The Queen of Make-Believe. I'm a little teapot, short and stout Here is my handle, here is my spout When I get all steamed up, then I shout Tip me over and pour me out I'm a little teapot, short and stout Here is my handle, here is my spout. I'm a Little Teapot is a UK VHS release by The Video Collection on 2nd November 1992. 1 Description 2 Songs 3 Credits 4 Opening (Original 1992 release) 5 Closing (Original 1992 release) 6 Trailers and info 7 Gallery Learn all the actions, join in and sing along to your favourite play rhymes and activity songs. Elizabeth Watts introduces a carefully chosen selection of well-loved Nursery Rhymes.

Im A Little Teapot is a perfect song to sing around the campfire with preschoolers. It's short, it's simple, and if your little ones have been to preschool or have listened to children's CDs, they probably know it already!

As a matter of fact, you probably learned it when you were a child yourself! Its cheerful tune and easy-to-learn words make it an obvious choice for teaching to the youngest children.

When you are singing around the campfire, be sure to include simple songs like this one for the toddlers as well as more challenging songs for the big guys!

The words

You may know the tune to I'm a Little Teapot already - but do you know the words well enough to sing them around the campfire?

Here they are!

I'm a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout
Just tip me over
And pour me out!

The actions

Most two-, three- and four-year olds love action songs! Even the big kids can get caught up in the fun around a campfire and might be willing to do the actions - especially if the adults are joining in too. Being silly together around the campfire is part of a great family camping trip!

Place one hand on your hip to make the handle.
Hold up the opposite hand and arm to form a spout.
Tip to the side in the direction of the handle.

Have fun!

History of I'm a Little Teapot

I used to think that this tune is just a children's nursery school song, but it has a more interesting history.

Back in the 1930s, a gentleman named Clarence Kelly and his wife (whose name I could not discover although I tried) ran a children's dance school. They taught tap dancing, among other things.

Their older students learned the popular tap dances of the time, but the littlest dancers had trouble with even the easiest dance in the repertoire.

Clarence and his buddy George Sanders, who played the piano at dance recitals, decided to create a dance that was easy enough for even the youngest children to learn. They created a song with lyrics that reinforced the dance moves. The dance, appropriately named 'The Teapot Tip', was a hit!

The song (which is actually titled 'The Teapot Song', not 'Im a Little Teapot') was published in 1939. It was recorded in Big Band style by Ronnie Kemper and the Horace Heidt Orchestra and sold a million records!

Interesting postscript: George Sanders' son Ronald grew up to become a history professor and respected writer. When he wrote his memoirs, he titled them 'Reflections on a Teapot: The Personal History of Time'.

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Romans 9:20-21 ²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” ²¹ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

I’m a little teapot

In this passage, Paul is explaining the sovereignty of God. I must admit, I don’t like it too much. Let me clarify; my flesh doesn’t like it too much. Can’t every person just be a self made man? Don’t we have complete control over our circumstances and our future? To a degree yes – that’s free will. But free will does not undo the sovereignty of God. It does not negate His absolute power and authority over all creation.

I bet over the course of any person’s life, they have asked a question like the one here in verse 20. “Why did you make me like this? Why didn’t you make me like that? How come I don’t have that ability?” These are the kind of questions that get to the core of who we are. They go to the center of a person’s being. Often they come out in a time of failure or hurt. We get frustrated with ourselves. We don’t like our behavior. It’s in those times that we direct the glory to God, although it’s not really glory. It’s complaint. It’s very similar to what happens with a football team. When the team is winning, the players (the quarterback especially) get all kinds of praise. When they lose, the coach gets fired.

This is what we often do with God. When we don’t like what we see, we want to fire God from control of our lives. We want to fire God from his position of power, authority, and sovereignty. Paul poses this question, “does a clay pot get to ask the potter what the heck he is doing?” No it does not. The clay pot is molded for a unique purpose. Some pots are flashy and impressive. Some look more ordinary. But they all have a purpose. One might be used to serve wine to the king and the other might be used to serve water to the homeless. But they both have a purpose.

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Going with this analogy that Paul uses, we the pots have to trust that the potter knew what he was doing when he made us. If we are the little teapot, short and stout, our purpose is to be tipped over and poured out. And that should be enough. How God designed us and made us should be okay with us. What we really need to do is lean into him to discover the purpose he made us for. That’s a completely different line of questioning – it is a searching.

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God is God. If we would just acknowledge that He is sovereign; if we would question less and trust more, I think we would find that He really does know what He is doing.