(Narrator instructs others to follow the motions demonstrated as he tells the story.)
One hot summer day my spaceship had just landed on the moon and needed some repair. I took a pair of pliers and I worked, and I worked, and I worked. (Use left hand to pantomime using pliers.)
By then I was so hot that I found a piece of moon paper and I fanned, and I fanned, and I fanned.
(Continue left hand pliers and use right hand to pantomime the use of a fan.
I stepped out of the rocket ship and spied a meteor going up and down, and up and down.
(Continue both hand motions and an up-and-down motion with the body.)
All at once there appeared in front of me a group of moon people saying, “Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo!”
(Continue all motions while saying cuckoo.