Music time with your child teaches more than you think. Take time with these songs each day and watch your little one grow and learn!
There are so many wonderful action songs that you can sing that will take you on a trip down memory lane and jog some memories of when you were a child.
Remember, the skills your child will learn from singing and movement include:
- Language development
- Self-expression
- Learning about body parts
- Increases listening skills and opportunities to follow directions
- Builds social awareness
- Increases attention span
- Teaches order and sequence
- Builds dexterity and muscle control
Happy and You Know it
“If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands”
Repeat with “stomp your feet” and “nod your head” etc
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,
And eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes!
Sleeping Bunnies
See the bunnies sleeping,
Till it’s nearly noon,
Shall we wake them, with a merry tune?
They’re so still, are they ill?
WAKE UP SOON!
Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, hop,
Hop, hop, hop,
Hop, hop, hop,
Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, hop,
Hop, hop, hop!
Five Speckled Frogs
Five little-speckled frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some more delicious grubs,
YUM YUM!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are four little speckled frogs!
Children will love joining in with their clapping, singing, banging, tapping, gurgling, laughing and having fun!
Tickling songs, finger rhymes, peekaboo games, dancing with teddy, action songs, playing percussion instruments and so much more all ensure that your child’s musical experiences are positive and fun!
“Children who grow up hearing music, singing songs, and moving to the beat are enjoying what experts call “a rich sensory environment.” That’s just a fancy way of saying a child is exposed to a wide variety of tastes, smells, textures, colours, and sounds. And kids who enjoy such a rich environment do more than have fun. Researchers believe they forge more pathways between the cells in their brains.”
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