Can’t make it to BabyTimes this week - why not try it at home? Click on the letters below to learn some of our favourite action rhymes to play at home.
The Rhymes: T
Actions are shown in italics
These are baby’s fingers
These are baby’s fingers
These are baby’s toes
This is baby’s bellybutton
Round and round it goes
These are baby’s eyes
This is baby’s nose
This is baby’s bellybutton
Right where mummy/daddy blows!
This is the way the ladies ride
Tune: “Here we go round the mulberry bush”
This is the way the ladies ride (gentle bouncing)
Tra la la la
Tra la la la
This is the way the ladies ride
Tra la la la la la
This is the way the gentlemen ride (faster bouncing)
Gallopy-trot
Gallopy-trot
This is the way the gentlemen ride
Gallopy-gallopy trot
This is the way the farmers ride (rock side to side)
Hobbely-hoy
Hobbely-hoy
This is the way the farmers ride
Hobbeley-hobbely-hoy
Tick tock, tick tock
I’m a little cuckoo clock
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Now I’m striking 1 o’clock
Cuckoo
Toast in the Toaster
I'm toast in the toaster, (bounce on lap)
I'm getting very hot,
Tick tock, tick tock, (sway)
And up I pop. (Lift baby up)
Touch your nose
Tune: “Here we go round the mulberry bush”
Touch your nose, touch your chin,
That’s the way this game begins,
Touch your eyes, touch your knees,
Now pretend you feel a breeze
Touch your hair, touch one ear,
Touch your two red lips right here,
Touch your elbows where they bend,
That’s the way this touch game ends
Trit trot to Boston
Trit trot to Lyn
Watch out babies
Or you’ll fall in
Twinkle twinkle
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
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