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A Collection of Finger Plays and Action Songs

Kids love to sing and dance and here are a few finger plays and songs to teach your little one verbal, listening, and fine motor and gross motor skills in a fun way.

Finger Plays

Tommy Thumb

• Tommy thumbs up, Tommy thumbs down
• Tommy thumbs dancing all around the town
• Dance them on your shoulders, dance them on your head
• Dance them on your knees and tuck them into bed.

Continue the song using: Peter pointer, Toby tall, Ruby ring and Baby finger in place of Tommy thumbs for each verse.

 

Five Little Chickadees

(Hold up five fingers and bend them down, one at a time as verse progresses).
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• Five little chickadees peeping at the door
• One flew away, and then there were four
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• Four little chickadees sitting on a tree
• One flew away, and then there were three
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• Three little chickadees looking at you
• One flew away and then there were two
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• Two little chickadees sitting in the sun
• One flew away, and then there was one
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• One little chickadee left all alone
• One flew away, and then there were none.

 

Action Songs:

I Am a Little Busy Bee

• I am a little busy bee, buzzing in the clover.
• Here I go, there I go, all the wide world over.
• Buzzzzzzzz, buzzzzzz, buzzzzzz.


• (Your little one says buzz while pretending to be a bee).

 

See the Sleeping Bunnies

• (Your little one pretends they are sleeping on the floor until the song says wake up little bunnies and they hop around the room).
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• See the sleeping bunnies
• Sleeping till its noon
• Can you wake the bunnies with a merry tune?
• Oh, so still, are they ill
• Wake up little bunnies
• (Hop little bunnies hopping hopping, hop little bunnies hop hop hop) 2x hop and stop.
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• You can also sing:
• See the sleeping crocodiles (snap snap snap)
• See the elephants (stomp stomp stomp)
• Be creative; make up other animal verses with your little one(s)!

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