This song also practices and celebrates originality in associations. However, it also promotes “working memory” training, an important “executive brain function.” This is an attentional capacity to temporarily store and manipulate information despite distraction and attentional shifts. This ability to simultaneously hold and use information while inhibiting competing information is a skill important to problem solving and many other higher order cognitive skills.

Song Lyrics:  Weirder than Weird Animals
Weirder than weird animals
Weirder than weird animals
You take the front end of an elephant
You put a crocodile in the middle
You take the back side of a pelican

What have you got? An ele-croco-can
What have you got? An ele-croco-can
That’s gotta be weirder
Than the weirdest animal you’ve ever seen

Weirder than weird animals
Weirder than weird animals
You take the front end of an octopus
You put a buffalo in the middle
You take the back side of an antelope

What have you got? An octo-buffa-lope
What have you got? An octo-buffa-lope
That’s gotta be weirder than
The weirdest animal you’ve ever seen

Weirder than weird animals
Weirder than weird animals
You take the front end of an _______
You put a ______ in the middle
You take the back side of an _______

What have you got? An __________
What have you got? An __________
That’s gotta be weirder
Than the weirdest animal you’ve ever seen