Zoo Ah-choooo Pre-K

I adapted Peter Mandel's Zoo Ah-choooo! as a short puppet skit for a recent animal-themed preschool storytime. I used puppets we have here at my branch and tweaked it a bit for the audience. In all, it worked out great and was fun.

Puppets:
zebra
elephant
lion
monkey
penguin
bat
hippo

Props:
None
(Though you could use a bottle marked "medicine" to give the animals.



It was a slooow day at the City Zoo. All of the animals were sleepy and slow. Not much was happening. A slooow day.
When, all of a sudden, there was a long LOUD sound.
It was a ZOO-AH-CHOOOO!
Where did it come from? I think it was . . . zebra. What did he do? He went AH-CHOOOO! Zebra sneezed—just one sneeze.
But, African elephant heard the sound. She raised her trunk . . . RRRrrr-eeeEEE-ahh-PHOO! Elephant sneeze! Stand back. A tree was down; a fence was flat.
The ZOO-AH-CHOOOO! WAS CATCHING. 
Lion, lazing in the sun, felt a tickle in his whiskers. The zookeeper came running with nose drops and tissue, but it was too late. R-R-R-ROAR-AH-CHOO!  Lion covered everyone in dust.
Zookeeper tried to wash zebra with spray cleaner.
Even monkey woke up and found his washcloth to scrub.
Over in the ice pond, penguin felt a tickle in his beak.  ZOO-AH-CHOOOO!
Even bat, deep asleep in her cave, was awakened by the urge to . . . ah-choooo! (very quiet bat sneeze.)
What was the zookeeper to do? He called the Animal Doctor! The doctor made a fizzy solution for all the animals to drink. No more ZOO-AH-CHOOOO.
All was quiet again at the City Zoo.
It was a slooow day. Not much happening. Until—what was that? Not a sneeze. Not a burp. A hippo’s YAWN. Just one. (But it might be catching.) Did anyone hear it? Did the elephant? Did the penguin? Did you?! (OH NO!)