- Hello.
It's Mo Willems. Nice to see you.
I am an author, and an illustrator, and a thanker.
And if you saw the video last week,
the Thank You Thursdays video last week,
you also know that I am a terrible singer.
Well, today, we are going to thank other people,
because I like thanking.
Matter of fact, I've got a lot to be thankful for,
even on bad days.
Like today, I'm thankful that the internet exists,
and that I can talk to you right now,
and that we can make a card for someone to thank,
and that we can sing a song,
and that I can sing that song poorly.
Right.
So, let's go to the Thank-O-Rama spinning wheel
[snap]
and see who we're going to thank.
I'm going to count down from three,
and you're all going to say "spin."
And then, the wheel will spin,
and we'll see who we're going to thank today.
Ready?
Three, two, one, spin!
Oh, it's spinning, it's spinning, it's spinning.
It stopped
[snap]
on Food Workers.
Oh, that is a good group of people to thank.
There's so many people who are getting food
from farms to other people,
to grocery stores, who are delivering food from restaurants.
It's a pretty intense job that they're doing right now,
so I want to make sure that we make
a really good card for them.
So, I forgot to do this.
Let's pause if you want.
If you don't have it already,
bring a piece of paper, couple pens,
and later on, we're going to need some scissors,
and maybe a grown-up to help with the scissoring.
Okay, that good?
Get it, yeah, okay.
Play.
All right, there we go.
I have my big piece of paper,
and it's Food Workers.
I'm going to do a big F for food.
Well, let's see, what can I do with that?
Hmm, oh, I know.
It's kind of like a bird food worker.
And he's, or she, or they
are delivering a bird pizza.
Box is a little small.
And boy, this bird has a tail.
Right, why not?
And then, I got to say, whoop:
Thank You
Food Workers.
Oh, I hope I fit.
Whew, I do.
Thank you Food Workers.
Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to write my name.
I always do that so that when they put this in the window,
somebody who's a Food Worker will see that I did it,
and I've stamped it today, May 14th.
Okay.
That is my thank you Food Workers poster
with a bird delivering a bird pizza.
Can I see yours?
Will you hold yours up?
Oh.
Yeah, oh, that's pretty funny.
I like how some of you took this idea,
and some of you didn't.
You just made up your own things.
That's really great.
All right, we're going to get ready to sing
the Thank You Food Workers song.
Now, I wrote the lyrics, the words to the song,
but I did not write the music.
My friend and composer Debbie Wicks La Puma.
[snap]
- Hi there.
[snap]
- Wrote the music to this song.
And Debbie Wicks La Puma also wrote the music
to "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience."
That's right, I wrote a rock opera
based on the book "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed."
And because of that, before we sing, I think our instrument
that we're going to do a solo on at the end
should be a guitar.
Now, a guitar is easy to draw if you know your numbers
and your shapes.
So I'm going to make my piece of paper big.
And on the top half of my paper, just in the top half,
I'm going to write a number 11.
Now, on the super-tippy top, I'm going to make a square.
And now, I'm going to take my piece of paper,
and go sideways, and I'm going to draw the number eight.
Well, it's a sideways eight.
I should've drawn it that way, up like that.
Anyway, I drew a number eight, and inside I circle that in.
And now I go sideways.
It kind of looks like a guitar.
I am going to put a little plug on it, because I love it.
That makes it an electric guitar.
And you can, but you don't have to,
kind of roughly cut it out.
If you're not good with scissors, then you're like me,
and that's okay.
And if you want to have a grown-up
or maybe who's somebody who's scissor-ly,
more scissor-ly, you can have them help you.
I'm just going to make my guitar pretty basic.
It's more fun to play when I have it on my lap.
All right.
I'm going to save this paper for later,
because I may have a project that I want to use that for.
That'll be fun.
Okay, I have a little guitar.
All right, let's thank Food Workers with our song.
Remember our friend Battery is going to help us sing.
- [Battery] Battery, hi.
- Hi, Battery.
- [Battery] Zero, one, seven.
- All right, the words will be on the bottom of the screen.
Let me just tune up.
(imitating guitar twanging)
And don't worry if you don't sing very well.
You sing better than I do.
Here we go.
(upbeat piano music)
♪ I'll thank you, Food Workers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, Food Workers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ I'll thank you, Food Workers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, Food Workers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
- Come on, everybody.
♪ Thank the Food Workers! ♪
♪ Thank 'em for what they do! ♪
♪ I'll thank the Food Workers ♪
♪ by singing this song for them! ♪
(guitar solo)
- Awesome. Thank you guys for thanking Food Workers.
It's been a really fun Thank You Thursday,
and I hope to see you next week.
It's Mo Willems saying bye-bye.
(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! ♪