For use with Teach Kids About Sound and Teach Kids About Poetry.
Pat-a-Cake
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker’s man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it and mark it with “B”
Put it in the oven for baby and me
For baby and me
Miss Mary Mack
Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
They jumped so high, high, high
They reached the sky, sky, sky
And they didn’t come back, back, back
‘Til the 4th of July, ly, ly!
A Sailor Went to Sea
A sailor went to sea sea sea
to see what she could see see see.
But all that she could see see see
was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea.
[Children can repeat this verse but replace the final line with animals or objects, such as “a big shark swimming in the sea, sea, sea.”]
Down Down Baby
Down, down, baby
Down by the roller coaster (horizontal wave motion)
Sweet, sweet, baby (\both arms cross the chest)
I’ll never let you go
Shimmy, Shimmy Ko Ko Bop
Shimmy Shimmy Pow
Shimmy, Shimmy Ko Ko Bop
Shimmy Shimmy Pow
Grandma, Grandma,
Sick in bed
Mama called the doctor
And the doctor said
Let’s get the rhythm of the head
Ding-Dong (rock head side to side)
Let’s get the rhythm of the head
Ding-Dong (rock head side to side)
Let’s get the rhythm of the hands
(clap, clap)
Let’s get the rhythm of the hands
(clap, clap)
Let’s get the rhythm of the feet
(stomp, stomp)
Let’s get the rhythm of the feet
(stomp, stomp)
Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog (rock hips in a circle)
Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog (rock hips in a circle)
Put it all together and what do you got?
Ding-dong (head rock)(clap, clap)(stomp, stomp) hot dog (rock hips)
Put it all backwards and what do you got?
hot dog (rock hips) (stomp, stomp) (clap, clap) ding-dong (head rock)
Tic-Tac-Toe
Tic tac toe
Gimme an X
Gimme an O
Gimme a three in a row
Demonstration or an alternate way here
Double Double
Double (front) double (front)
This (back) this (back)
Double (front) double (front)
That (fist) that (fist)
Double (front) this (back)
Double (front) that (fist)
Double (front) double (front)
This (back) that (fist)
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