Fingerplays

If a Baby Blew a Bubble

Blow up cheeks          If a baby blew a bubble,

Put finger on chin     What would happen, would you say?

Clap on "burst"         Would the baby bubble burst

                 Blow         Or would the bubble blow away?


Round and Round the Garden
Begin with baby's hand palm side up, fingers apart. This fingerplay also works on the baby's foot.

Trace circles on palm           Round and round the garden
with index finger
                                              Goes the teddy bear.

Begin walking up the arm    One step, two step
using first 2 fingers

Tickle chin                           Tickly under there!



Two Little Apples

Hands in fists, shaking             Two little apples

Extend arms over head            Way up high in the apple tree.
shaking fists
                                                 Two little apples smiling at me!

Pretend to shake tree               I shook that tree, I shook it as hard as I could.

Flutter hands down                 Down came the apples.

Put fists on mouth                   Hmmm, they're good!



Eat an Apple

Bring right hand to mouth                 Eat an apple;

Close right hand in fist                       Save the core.

Bend down touch hand to ground      Plant the seeds

Extend both arms out                         And grow some more!

Out of Print Award Winning Mother Goose Books

These books have all won a Caldecott Honor Award the year afer they each were published. However they are all out of print. You may be able to find copies at your local public library. You can also purchase copies of these books onlie through used book companies.

Sing Mother Goose, Marguerite Torrey, illustrator; music by Opal Wheeler (Dutton) 1945.

Mother Goose, Tasha Tudor, illustrator, (Oxford University Press) 1944.

Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Robert Lawson, illustrator, text compiled by Helen Dean Fish (Stokes) 1937.

Award Winning Mother Goose Books

The Caldecott Award is given each year by the American Library Association. Awarded  in January of each year, the Caldecott Award is given to books published the previous year. This award is given to certain books that are distinguished in illustrations. The following books on Mother Goose won the Caldecott Honor Award the year after they were published.

Hush! A Thai Lullaby, Holly Meade, ill. Text: Minfong Ho (Melanie Kroupa/Orchard Books), 1996.

Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes, Phillip Reed, illustrator. (Atheneum) 1963.

The House that Jack Built, by Antonio Frasconi (Harcourt) 1958.

Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, Marguerite deAngeli, illustrator, (Doubleday) 1954.