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Singing songs with actions can make them a lot more engaging for your child. It helps build physical coordination and helps them to learn the words too.
Give you child plenty of time to respond with the right action like the families in the video below.
The benefits of singing action songs
- Songs with actions are great for helping with your child's gross and fine motor skills and their physical coordination.
- Actions and rhymes together can help children learn words more quickly as they are more engaged and link the words with the actions.
- Rhymes are a great way of introducing new words in a fun way.
- Rhyming helps children predict what words are coming and memorise them too, which is a great foundation for language.
- Singing and signing at the same time can help with language development, particularly for children with conditions that affecttheir language skills.
- Singing and performing the actions together can be a lot of fun and great for bonding.
Action songs and nursery rhymes you could try
There are lots of action songs to check out across the Tiny Happy People website. Here are a few of our favourites and some actions that your child will love to get involved in.
Do actions and sounds for all the items and people on the bus.
Encourage your child to invent new actions. Ask them what the aunties on the bus would do? Or get creative and make up some verses about their best friend, your neighbour or a pet.
This song is great for introducing early action words and for following directions when you point to various places.
Have fun winding, pulling, clapping and pointing.
This one is very tactile. It's bound to raise a laugh with the tickle!
It is also a very effective way of building up 鈥榓nticipation鈥 skills. Leave a pause before the tickle and see how your child reacts.
You can make a boat motion by rowing back and forth.
Try doing it faster and slower to see if your child can join in with the rhythm of the song. This is helpful for listening and copying skills.
If you add the crocodile verse this is another great rhyme for anticipation skills.
This one's great for acting out all their favourite farmyard animals.
This one can get a bit frantic and fun as it gets faster, while teaching all about body parts.
Image caption, Action songs are great for helping children's physical coordination.
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