Fingerplay: Open Shut Them x2
Open shut them, open shut them
Give a little clap, clap, clap
Open shut them, open shut them
Put them in your lap, lap, lap
Creep them, creep them
Creep them, creep them
Right up to your chin, chin, chin
Open wide your smiling mouth
But do not let them in!
Fingerplay: The Itsy Bitsy Spider x2
Song: The Wheels on the Bus
Story: Barnyard Dance (by Sandra Boynton)
Song: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Activity: Peek-a-Boo with Scarves
Activity: Shakers to music
Fingerplay: This is Big Big Big x2
This is big, big, big
This is small, small, small
This is short, short, short
This is tall, tall, tall
This is fast, fast, fast
This is slow, slow, slow
This is yes, yes, yes
This is no, no, no
Fingerplay: 1, 2, 3 x2
1, 2, 3 (tap baby’s knee)
Tickle my knee (tickle baby’s knee)
4, 5, 6 (tap baby’s belly)
Pick up sticks (tickle baby’s belly)
7. 8, 9 (tap baby’s chin)
You’re all mine (hug baby)
Song: Cuckoo
Tick tock, tick tock,
I’m a little cuckoo clock
Tick tock, tick tock
It’s one o’clock
Cuckoo! (lift baby towards ceiling)
***Keep on going until six o’clock, with each verse getting progressively faster***
Activity: Parachute to music
Fingerplay: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star x2
(first time singing, second time humming)