(markers scratching)
- Ooh!
Hello, it's Mo Willems.
How have you been?
It is May 7th, and we're starting a new short series
of videos called "Thank You Thursdays!"
It's going to be a Thank-o-Rama,
because even though there's a lot of stress,
and a lot of weird stuff,
and a lot of not good stuff going on right now,
there's also a lot to be thankful for.
Like, for instance, you.
I'm thankful that you are watching this video right now.
So what we're going to do is we're going to figure out
who to thank, and then we're going to make a thank you card,
and we're going to sing a thank you song.
So if you want to get any supplies, press pause.
Pause, okay.
And get some paper, and some colored pens,
and maybe some scissors or a ruler,
and a grown-up to help with those scissors.
And we'll use all of those in a little bit.
Okay, ready.
(mumbles)
All right, press play.
So, the first thing we need to do
is figure out who to thank.
Well fortunately I have a Thank-o-Rama wheel of thanks.
(snaps)
Look at that wheel.
They're all different sorts of people
and things that we can thank.
And we're going to spin the spinner
and see who we're going to thank today.
So in order to spin the spinner I need your help.
When I count backwards from three
I need you to yell spin.
And then the spinner will spin.
Ready?
Three, two, one, spin!
(spinner clicking)
It's spinning, it's spinning.
Oh! It stopped on...
(snaps)
Medical Workers.
Medical Workers, wow.
The last couple months these guys have been such heroes.
They have been helping people who are sick,
they've been doing their best,
and man, there have been a lot of people who've gotten ill.
So we really have a lot, lot, a lot, a lot, a lot,
a lot of thanks for these Medical Workers.
We're going to make a card for them.
Get a big piece of paper.
I'm want to make this a good card
because I'm really thankful for
the ambulance drivers, the people who clean the hospitals,
the doctors, amazing people.
So I'll take one of my pens.
And I'm going to draw a big M.
For Medical Workers.
Now let's turn that M into something.
Hmm.
Oh, I think I got an idea here.
Let's do like this.
(marker scratching)
All right.
It may take a little while
to figure out what I'm thinking about.
Now maybe you've got a sense.
It's an ambulance.
And I'll make a shadow.
And action lines, because it's going
really, really fast.
And then I'll make the siren.
Blasting off like that.
And I then, I'm going to write a little note.
Say,
thank
you
Medical, ooh I hope it fits.
Workers!
Exclamation point!
It fit.
And then I'm going to take, let's go back to my blue,
I want to make sure that I sign it,
Mo, so that when I put it in my window
any Medical Workers are driving by
they'll see that I signed it.
And today is May 7th, and I'll stamp it like that.
Put that back.
Look at that.
Medical Workers.
So look, I am an author, and an illustrator,
and a doodler, and now I'm a thanker.
Because I thanked the Medical Workers
with this poster.
Put that over there.
Well let's also thank the Medical Workers with a song.
I wrote the lyrics to a song.
But I did not write the music
because I do not know how to write music.
So I got my friend, Debbie Wicks La Puma...
(snaps)
- Hello!
(snaps)
- To write the music for this song.
Now Debbie Wicks La Puma's a good friend.
She is my composer.
I have my own composer.
And she wrote and composed the music
to "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical,"
which was recently at the Kennedy Center.
And this song.
So let's get ready to sing the song.
But before we do, I need to make an instrument.
Because at the end of the song
I'm going to do a musical solo.
So I am going to create a piano.
See if you want to create a piano with me.
Piano is pretty easy to create.
What you do is you take a big piece of paper,
and down the middle,
make a line.
I'm going to do that again.
I'm going to make another line, but this way.
And I'll make another line.
Uh, this is fun.
I'm just going to keep making lines
while I make my piano.
Maybe I'll stick another little line in there.
Then I'm going to make a couple squares, like this.
Two here because they're friends.
Then I'll put one here.
It's a little bit lonely, but that's okay.
And then another one here.
Now, I'm going to take my scissors,
if you need a grown-up to help you with your scissors
you can do that, and just cut along here.
(groans)
See, I may need a grown-up to help me.
I'm not very good with scissors.
All right, I'll put that piece of paper back.
And the scissors.
And I got a little piano.
Let me just tune it.
♪ Dum ♪
Yeah, okay, that's going to be good.
So I've got my music, my piano,
it's been composed.
I'm going to get my robot friend, Battery.
I call this little guy Battery.
He's going to help me sing.
- [Battery] Battery hi.
- Hi Battery.
- [Battery] Zero, one, seven.
- Okay, are you guys ready to sing,
to sing along with me, to thank the Medical Workers?
Here we go.
Battery?
Battery, Battery, Battery, press play.
Battery, are you there?
Not pressing, pressing play.
Yup, is it playing?
Nope, nope it's not playing.
Well we have a little technical difficulties.
In between that, why don't we watch me do this.
(singing)
Didn't work, all right.
Ah, it worked! Okay.
(upbeat music)
♪ I'll thank you, Medical Workers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, Medical Workers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
Come on sing.
♪ I'll thank you, Medical Workers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
Come on!
♪ I'll thank you, Medical Workers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
Everybody!
♪ I'll thank you, Medical Workers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, Medical Workers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
Piano solo.
(upbeat piano music)
(claps)
Great work.
Great thanking.
Thank you for thanking Medical Workers with me
on this Thank You Thursday.
You are now a thanker.
We'll see you next week.
(upbeat music)
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪