Books and More for Babies and Toddlers
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Recommended Books - some of the lists found here are very appropriate for babies and toddlers More Recommended Reads--sign up for an email newsletter recommending great picture books every month! Patty Cakes: Bounces and Finger plays to share with your baby Sharing finger plays and bounces are a great way to interact with your very young child with just the equipment you have at hand….your hands, knees, arms, and voice. Touch, words, rhythm, and fun meld together for a special bond but after counting piggies, going peek-a-boo, and playing patty cake, what else can you do with the baby? Try these out! One, Two, Three, Four, Five (As a Clapping Rhyme) With an older child you can switch from clapping to counting fingers and add: Another tickle rhyme is a Mother Goose favorite: Hickory Dickory Dock A very popular [among babies] bounce/action rhyme is: This is the Way the Ladies Ride This is the way the ladies ride What's New?
What's Fun?
1,2,3,4,5, [child in adult’s lap, clap hands around child]
Once I caught a fish alive [hug child]
6,7,8,9,10 [clap hands around child]
Then I let it go again [tickle child up and down arms & legs]
Why did you let it go? [hold out hands, palms up]
Because it bite my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
The little one, on the right. [hold up right pinkie]
Hickory dickory dock, [run your fingers up the child’s legs and arms]
The mouse ran up the clockl
The clock struck one [touch child’s nose]
The mouse ran down,
Hickory dickory dock. [run fingers back down]
[seat baby on knees facing you]
Trippity trot, trippity trot [gently bounce]
This is the way the gentleman ride
Clippity clop, clippity clop [bounce slightly harder]
And this is the way the farmers ride
Hobbledy hoy, hobbled hoy
Hobbledy hobbledy over the wall! [bounce on both knees and then lift up child and swing down between legs for “over the wall”]
