Bubbles (sung to "Mary Had a Little Lamb") Bubbles floating in the air, in the air, in the air. Bubbles floating in the air, Pop, Pop, Wow!
Bubbles are Floating (Tune to Are You Sleeping?) Bubbles are floating, bubbles are floating, Up so high, up so high, Floating up above us, floating up above us, In the sky, in the sky.
Pop Goes the Bubble (Tune: Pop Goes the Weasel) All around the great outdoors The baby chased the bubbles. The baby laughed and had such fun. Pop! Goes the bubbles.
| Clapping Game Open them, shut them, Open them, shut them, Give a little clap clap clap. Open them shut them, Open them, shut them, Place them in your lap lap lap.
Play Peek-a-Book with your child using stuffed animals and a blanket.
Round the Head Round and round the head Grew (child's name) hair, One bubble, Two bubbles, Tickle you under there. (tickle back of baby's neck.)
Wiggle Song (Let your child watch you act this out the first time. The second time, act it out on with HIS body.)
I wiggle wiggle wiggle my fingers I wiggle wiggle wiggle my toes I wiggle wiggle wiggle my shoulders I wiggle wiggle wiggle my nose Now no more wiggles are left in me So I will be as still as can be.
| Use a bubble blower to blow bubbles and let your child have fun reaching for and popping the bubbles with her hand.
Make soapy water by filling the kitchen sink with water and dish-washing liquid). Scoop out the top layer of foamy bubbles and put into a large plastic bowl, and let your infant use his hands to explore inside the bowl. Hide rubber ducky in the bowl for more fun!
Obtain packing bubbles and help your child pop the bubbles with his tiny fingers!
| Face to Face Interaction:
Recite the nursery rhyme "Yankee Doodle" to your child and clap his hands to the rhyme:
Yankee Doodle came to town, A-ridin' on a pony; He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni. Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle Dandy; Mind the music and the steps And with the girls be handy.
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