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For Women At Home has listed the following songs and rhymes as a means of being able to sing with our children and to enjoy the fun it will bring. It has not been done to intentionally breach any copy write laws.
Finger Plays
Songs May I come over to your place? If you’re happy and you know it
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I have ten
fingers hold up both hands, fingers spread I can shut them up
tight make fists I can make them
jump high hands over head This is my garden (place left hand, palm toward sky, in front of you) I'll rake it with care (use first 3 crooked fingers of right hand to "rake" left palm) Then some flower seeds I'll plant in there (with thumb and forefinger "pinchers" touch garden four times to plant seeds) The sun will shine (right hand pinchers in air above "garden" twist wrist and open fingers) The rain will fall (wiggle fingers of right hand down to garden) And my garden will blossom and grow straight and tall (put right hand under left hand "garden" push right hand fingers up through left hand to grow)
"Quack, quack", said Sally (Close fingers and thumb, repeat) "Quack, quack", said Dally (Close right fingers and thumb,.....repeat) "Let's swim", said Sally (Repeat) "Let's swim", said Dally (Repeat) So Sally and Dally to the water's brim Went wadding down for their morning swim (Move folded hands slightly four times) "Splish, splash", said Sally, (Clap twice to the left) "Splish, splash", said Sally, (Clap twice to the left)
An elephant goes like this and that (Pat knees alternately) He’s terrible big (Hands up high) And he’s terrible fat (Hands out wide) He has no fingers (Wiggle fingers) And he has no toes But goodness, gracious, what a nose! (Make trunk by arms and fingers interlaced)
Bang! Goes the hammer Just like this! (Clench fist, bang on palm) Bang! Goes the hammer Do not miss (Repeat) Bang! Goes the hammer Sparks fly high (move fingers above head) Here is a horse-shoe Now you try
Here are grandma's glasses (Ring fingers and thumbs at eyes) Here is Grandma's hat. (Hand on head) This is the way she folds her hands, (Fold hands in lap) And then lays them in her lap. (Repeat in a deeper voice for Grandpa) And has a little nap (Nod head)
A little mouse hid in a hole (Hand on hip, other hand in circled arm) Hid softly in a little hole When all was quite as quiet can be Out popped he! (pull hand quickly out)
Here is a saucer (hand flat palm up) Here is a cup (Circle fingers and thumb) Pour in the milk (Pretend to pour) And drink it up (And raise cup to lips)
We are little teddy bears (Clench fists on head for ears) As you all can see. We hold out our arms and say, (Stretch out arms and ) "Come and cuddle me) (Hug)
Songs Five little monkeys jumping on the
bed. Four little monkeys jumping on the
bed. (Continue singing 3, 2 and 1 Here’s a house with a wall, With a wall, With a wall, Here’s a house with a floor, With a floor, With a floor, Here’s a house with a roof, With a roof, With a roof. Spoken (Here’s a house falling down! Crash!) There’s no house any more, any more, There’s no house any more.
Cleaning Cleaning There’s always so much cleaning to be done by everyone. Cleaning cleaning There’s always so much cleaning to be done, to be done. You start to clean the floor, soon down comes the rain, Now there’s rain ion ev-ry pane, So you clean it all again.
May I come over to your place? May I come over to your place? May I come over to you? You may come over to my place but you have to do what we do.
Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes,. knees and toes Head and shoulders knees and toes, we all clap hands together.
You put your left arm in, You put your left arm out You put your left arm in, and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn around, That’s what it’s all about. Ooooh! Hokey pokey pokey, . Ooooh! Hokey pokey pokey, Ooooh! Hokey pokey pokey, That’s what it’s all about. ( keep changing to different parts of the body)
Hey there what do you wear when you go out to play? Wear your sun hat, yes your sun hat, in a hat hat haty way, You wear your sun hat , yes your sun hat, In a hat hat haty way.
Do you put your hat on your foot, on your foot? Your hat on your foot uh uh uh uh ! Do you put your hat on your elbow, on your elbow , your hat on your elbow uh uh uh uh ! Do you put your hat on your knee, on your knee? Your hat on your knee uh uh uh uh You put your hat on you put your hat on you put your hat on your head, head, head. You put your hat on you put your hat on you put your hat on your head, head, heady head.
When you wake up in the morning at a quarter to one. And you can’t get back to sleep and you want to have some fun, You brush your teeth Ch Ch Ch Ch, Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch.
There were five in the bed and the litle one said, Roll over, roll over So they all rolled over and one fell out ( There were four in the bed etc, There was one in the bed and that one said, " Goodnight".)
I’m going to shake shake shake my sillies out, shake shake shake my sillies out, shake shake shake my sillies out, Wiggle my waggles away. (jump my juggles out, Nod my naughties out clap my crinkles out)
If you’re happy and you know it If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap clap) If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap clap) If you’re happy and you know it, then you really ought to show it, If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap clap)
Bananas in pyjamas, are coming down the stairs, Bananas in pyjamas, are coming down in pairs, Bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears, Cause on Tuesdays they all try to catch them unawares.
Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick, So she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick, The doctor came with his bag and his hat, And he knocked at the door with a ra-ta-tat. He looked at the dolly and he shook his head. He said "Miss Polly put her straight to bed" He wrote on the paper for a pill, pill, pill. I’ll be back in the morning with my bill, bill, bill.
Polly put the kettle on, Polly put the kettle on, Polly put the kettle on . We’ll all have tea. Sukey take it off again, Sukey take it off again, Sukey take it off again They’ve all gone away.
You can stamp your feet, You can knock your knees, You can sway and shake and spin And when the music stops you can freeze.
Open shut them, open shut them, Give a little clap. Open, shut them, open shut them, lay them in your lap. Creep them creep them creep them crrep them creep them, Right up to your chin, Open wide your little mouth, but do not let them in.
Wiggerly woo, wiggerly woo, Let’s all do the wiggerly woo Wiggerly woo, wiggeerly woo, Woo! Woo!, Wiggerley woo! Swing your arms round and round, Tap your feet on the ground, Clap your hands in front of you, That’s how you do the Wiggeley woo.
I can run as fast as you, I can run as fast as you, I can run as fast as you, running on the spot I can jump as high as you, I can jump as high as you, I can jump as high as you, jumping on the spot.
You can change your face from a smile to a frown, Smile Frown You can change your body from a cat to a clown Cat, Clown Changes, changes every where, But if you sit and stare you stay the same, Sit and stare, Stay the same sit and stare…………..Change!
One grey elephant balancing. Step by step on a piece of string. Thought it was such a wonderful stunt, that he called for another elephant. (Two, Three, Four onwards till) Five grey elephants balancing, Step by step on a piece of string, All of a sudden the piece of string broke, And down came all the elephant folk.
Little Peter rabbit had a fly upon his nose Little Peter rabbit had a fly upon his nose Little Peter rabbit had a fly upon his nose So he flipped and he flopped it and it flew away.
There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-oh! B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, And Bingo was his name oh!
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Merry merry king of the bush is he, Laugh kookaburra laugh Kookaburra , gay your life must be
Mister frog jumped put of his pond one day, And found himself in the rain, Said he I’ll get wet and I might catch a cold So he jumped in the pond a gain.
Der Glumph went the little green frog one day, d.er Glumph went the little green frog Der Glumph went the little green frog one day, And the frog went glumph, glumph, glumph! But we all know frogs go (clap) La de da de dah,(clap) La de da de dah,(clap) La de da de dah.We alll know frogs go La de da de dah,(clap), They don’t go glumph glumph glumph!
Three little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log, Eating some most delicious bugs (YumYum), One jumped into the pond, Where it was nice and cool Then there were two green speckled frogs (glub!glub!) Two little speckled frogs…….. One little speckled…… Then there were no green speckled frogs (glub, glub!)
Sally go round the stars Sally go round the moon Sally go round the chimney pots on a Saturday afternoon.
Take you riding in my car car, Take you riding in my car car Take you riding in my car car, I’ll take you riding in my car. Horn it goes beep beep ……….. Engine it goes brrrrm brrrrrm…………. Windscreen wipers go swish swish………….
All the fish are swimming in the water, swimming in the water, swimming in the water, All the fish are swimming in the water Fol de rol de rol de ray.
Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool, Swam three little fishies and a mumma fishy too Swim said the mumma fishy swim if you can So they swam and they swam all over the dam. Boop boop dit-tum dot-tem wot-tem chu Boop boop dit-tum dot-tem wot-tem chu And they swam and they swam all over the dam.
When all the cows were sleeping and the sun had gone to bed Up jumped the scarecrow and this is what he said "I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat, I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that. When all the hens were roosting and the moon had gone to bed Up jumped the scarecrow and this is what he said "I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow……………."
I'm a little teapot short and stout, Here is my handle, here is my spout, When I get all steamed up then I shout, "Tip me over, pour me out!" I am very cleaver, this is true, See all the actions I can do. I can change my handle to my spout Tip me over, pour me out.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, The wheels on the bus go round and round, All the way to town. The driver on the bus goes steer, steer, steer,.... The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep,...... The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,.......... The people on the bus go up and down, up and down, up and down....... The babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah...........
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