songs with hand motions

In: Personal Experiences

19 Sep 2009

B loves when I sing him songs with hand motions.  Even though he doesn’t say many words yet, he is able to learn the hand motions to the songs.  Unfortunately, I’m a horrible mom and I don’t know very many songs with hand motions!  He loves Itsy Bitsy Spider (his first sign was spider), the My Gym Hello and Goodbye songs, and this patty-cake-type rhyme I used to sing with kids at school on the playgound when I was little… I don’t even know if I have all the words right, but I think it goes:

Miss Sue, Miss Sue, Miss Sue from Alabama, Her real name’s Susianna.  Sitting in a rocker, eating Betty Crocker, watching the clock go tick-tock, tick tock banana rock, tick-tock, tick tock banana rock.  ABCDEFG, wash those suds right off of me.  Moonshine, moonshine, I see my mommy.  Moonshine, moonshine, oops I’m sorry.  Moonshine, moonshine… freeze!

B is starting to do the “tick-tock” motions with his hands now.

I’ve been looking for other songs I can sing him with hand motions, but the only thing I could find was this about.com page.  Anyone have any suggestions?  What are your kid’s favorite songs with hand motions?

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Dara

September 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

OK… so my kids LOVE Thumbkin and 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed… but there are also easy hand motions for twinkle twinkle little star… you should be able to google them… if not I can always email you the motions. Good luck!!

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brandonsmom

September 20th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

thanks! i found another link that’s pretty good based on your thumbkin suggestion: http://www.preschoolexpress.com/toddler_station05/toddler_station_jun05.shtml

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