Fingerplays for Children
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Take Your Preschooler to Library Storytimes
Preschool children benefit greatly from attending storytimes at the public library. These free programs introduce them to the world of books while learning songs and nursery rhymes to develop their vocabulary. At the same time, the children learn to interact with other children in a group and follow the directions of the leader (the librarian).
The parent can extend the benefits from the storytime in several ways. Make the trip to the library a fun outing and bring home a stack of books to continue reading to the child. Learn some fingerplays and use them frequently with the child. These help with manual dexterity and language development.
Here are some popular fingerplays and activitiy songs to use with your child.
(photo of me in the children's section of my library)
Contents at a Glance
- What to Expect at Storytime
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
- A Rhyme to Settle Down a Group
- Story Time Tips for Librarians and Teach...
- Learn Several Fingerplays with This Vide...
- Books Filled with Fingerplays
- Get Ideas of Storytimes and Circle Times
- Great Music for Storytimes on eBay
- Get More Storytime Ideas at This Blog
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Action Game for Storytime
This one has the repetition that young children like. By going faster and faster it keeps them engaged and moving.
Use this as a stretching activity between stories.
A Rhyme to Settle Down a Group
It is called "My Hands"
My hands upon my head I place
On my shoulders, on my face
On my hips I place them, so.
Now I raise them up so high
Make my fingers fairly fly
Now I clap them, 1, 2, 3
Then I fold them silently
(add matching action to each line)
When children in a group get restless, this can pull them all back into a coordinated activity that ends with quiet. That's a good time to launch into another story.
photo courtesy of stock.xchng
Story Time Tips for Librarians and Teachers
- How to Host a Group Story Time for Preschoolers | eHow.com
- Preschoolers enjoy hearing stories read aloud. Group story times can bring preschoolers together for socialization and learning. Immerse preschoolers in a theme by doing more than just reading a...
- How to Keep Children's Attention During Story Time | eHow.com
- They are wiggling, squirming and making noise, and you haven't even begun reading yet. How can you keep children's attention during story time? If you are a librarian or teacher, you have probably struggled with ...
Learn Several Fingerplays with This Video
Books Filled with Fingerplays
Get Ideas of Storytimes and Circle Times
Great Music for Storytimes on eBay
A Hap Palmer Song on YouTube
to give you an idea of his action songs
Get More Storytime Ideas at This Blog
Finger Puppets to Use with Fingerplays or Stories
Here's More Ideas for Your Story Time
You Remember This One - The Eency Weency Spider
A fun fingerplay
Links to More Finger Plays
- Finger Plays and Action Verses for Children
- Has the words and actions to go with them.
- The Youth Online Club - Toddlers - Fingerplays
- Links to a number of sites with Fingerplays
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What's Your Favorite Fingerplay?
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annmackiemiller Jul 24, 2011 @ 2:56 pm | delete
- great lens, looks like fun of grown ups too
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Donnette
Jul 11, 2011 @ 3:13 pm | delete
- what a beautiful lens! I try to incorporate fingerplays or action rhymes into my unit studies :)
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efriedman
Jul 8, 2011 @ 6:44 pm | delete
- Great ideas to involve children with stories and with activities through finger play and finger puppets.
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veryirie
Jul 7, 2011 @ 11:33 pm | delete
- I love the idea of finger puppets for children. There are some fun songs here to go with them.
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phoenix-arizona-friends
Jul 6, 2011 @ 8:08 pm | delete
- Great idea for kids.
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kinworm
Jun 24, 2011 @ 11:20 am | delete
- Some great information here. Our library does storytime and singing but no fingerplays. That's a good idea so I will suggest it to them.
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scarlettohairy Jun 16, 2011 @ 12:16 am | delete
- My grandkids love story time at the library. Such a great service they offer.
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ChrissLJ Apr 3, 2011 @ 1:24 am | delete
- Learning Station's version of Tony Chestnut's the action song I can't get out of my head lately. Oh, and the Mother Goose Rocks's version of Baby Bumblebee. Ever had children Mosh Pit in the middle of storytime? Quite. A. Sight!
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rbkuncoro
Mar 30, 2011 @ 8:30 pm | delete
- This is reminds me when I was little. parents taught me a lot about this. Great lens
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LizMac60 Feb 18, 2011 @ 6:17 am | delete
- Great lens with lovely ideas for story telling to children. Blessed by a squid angel and featured on Me?!! A Squid Angel on the Libraries and used books page.
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moonlitta
Jan 26, 2011 @ 9:45 am | delete
- And lensrolled it to mi lens too, thank you!
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fuadi84
Dec 22, 2010 @ 7:28 pm | delete
- I like it. gives me new idea to tell stories to my nephew. lens roll it.
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OhMe Jul 27, 2010 @ 9:50 pm | delete
- Oh Me! I have so many Fingerplay songs that I am not sure which one is my favorite. I do like "I Had A Little Turtle" and many, many more. I loved this lens. Lensrolled to my Acronyms, Rhymes and Songs to Learn Facts. My favorite Action Song is "Do Your Ears Hang Low".
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vallain Jul 27, 2010 @ 10:07 pm | delete
- That's my sister's favorite too. I'm off to visit your lenses.
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