Each group takes it in turns to move around the space. The Pied Piper plays his pipe. The children skip on their own around the space, as though they are the Pied Piper playing his pipe.

Warm up with a partner. One child is the Pied Piper and the other is a rat, following him through the streets as he plays his pipe. The river swirls around the rats. Working with your partner ...

But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone ...