Early Literacy Tip: Sing, sing,
sing! Turn mundane tasks, such as grocery shopping, getting dressed, or taking
a bath, into a song or rhyme.
Books
Bathing by Liesbet Slegers
Pig Takes a Bath by Michael Dahl
Spot at Home by Eric Hill
Read-together book
Special Songs/Rhymes
Two Little
Hands
Sung to: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
Two little hands
go clap clap clap
Two little feet
go tap tap tap
Two little hands
go thump thump thump (on the ground)
Two little feet
go jump jump jump
One little body
turns around
One little child
sits right down.
Wash the Dishes
--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by
Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.
Five Little Piggies
Five little
piggies rolling in the mud.
Squishy, squashy,
felt so good!
Then along came
the farmer,
who took one for
a bath.
Continue to one little piggy
Wash your
dirty hands (with scarves)
Sung to: The Farmer in the Dell
Wash your dirty hands, wash your dirty hands
Rub and scrub and rub and scrub and wash your dirty hands
Wash your dirty hands, wash your dirty hands
Rub and scrub and rub and scrub and wash your dirty hands
Peek-a-Boo (with scarves)
Tune: Are You Sleeping?
Peek-a-boo,
peek-a-boo
I see you, I see
you
I see your button
nose,
I see your tiny
toes.
Peek-a-boo, I see
you!
--Jim
Thomas
