Nursery rhymes and finger plays
Who still knows all the finger games from his childhood and can now show them seamlessly to his own child or grandchild? You can not have everything in your head. As a small refresher and suggestion a highly subjective selection:
Fingering
The little ones love that, if they can do targeted movements with their fingers and hands. One of the simplest finger games is to open both hands up like a goblet, to turn it and sing (or talk):
Like a flag on the tower,
that turns on wind and storms,
so my hand can turn,
this is funny,
that's nice.
If you use both of your thumbs and consider them as dwarfs, you can wonderfully illustrate the little poem of the bobble and the pennants. You make a fist and first? the thumbs up. Whenever the names are mentioned, sometimes one, sometimes the other, wiggles. Crawl into the mountain, then slip your thumbs in your fist. Bringing is in real and in Heißa, Hoppsassa get the thumb back out of the fist. The last lines can also be sung:
Bullfinches and Pimpelchen, which rose on a high mountain.
Himpelchen was a Heinzelmann and Pimpelchen a dwarf.
They stayed up there long and wiggled their pointed caps.
But after many weeks they crawled into the mountain.
Sleep well there. Be quiet and listen carefully!
Ch ch ch ch ch? (Snoring)
Heißa, Heißa Hoppsassa, bobble and pimpelchen are back!
Another finger play, in which the order fortunately for now does not matter at all. Only when one has often done it in a certain, the child will probably take care that everything is his "order"? Has. The little fidgety men, the fingers, just do what is sung or spoken:
Ten little fidgets
wriggle back and forth,
ten little fiddles
That's not hard at all.
Ten little fidgets
wriggle up and down,
ten little fidgets
do that again and again.
Ten little fidgets
fidget around,
ten little fidgets
suddenly fall over.
Ten little fidgets
crawl into hiding,
ten little fidgets
are suddenly gone.
Ten little fidgets
are back again,
ten little fidgets
shout aloud: "Hurray!"
Also nice and pretty short for memory heroes is this game where the fingers flutter around until they? In the forest? to be hidden behind the back:
All my fingers
want to be birds today.
They fly up, they fly down,
they fly away, they come again.
They build a nest in the forest,
There they sleep deeply and firmly
Tickling and hopping games
Young children and even babies love it when the parents or grandparents have something exciting about them. to do with them. It will not be boring either. Straight lines become a ritual. The air is stopped every time before the teddy bear tickles or crawls the snail.
Tripping with your fingers all over your body and hiding behind your back at the end:
In our house are a lot of mice.
They are tripping and trailing. They zippeln and fidget.
And if you want to catch them: Hush, all crawlies are gone!
On the melody of Brother Jacob's fingers crawl up and down the body:
A snail, a snail
crawls up, crawls up
crawls down again, crawls back down
tickles you on the stomach, tickling your stomach
The finger turns circles in the child's palm and then goes to the neck or ear in two steps:
Round and round the garden,
goes a teddy bear.
One step, two steps
Tickle under there
Round and round the Haystack
Goes a little mouse
One step, two steps
In his little house
A classic, who does not know this rhyme? One after the other, the thumb, index, middle, ring and little fingers are shaken a little:
That's the thumb,
he shakes the plums,
he reads it up,
he carries her home,
and the little rascal eats them all in a row
An ancient verse, which was a standard in our family in the winding and usually had to be applied to kindergarten age. But you can turn the legs of the baby like that? to move in the rhythm, as you like. In the end - throws? with a little swing upwards.
Gymnastics is the best medicine
she helps out with all illness
Strengthens the muscles
extends the limbs,
drives the evil disease out soon
Do you still have to say something to the following?
Hoppe Hoppe Reiter,
when he falls, he screams.
If he falls into the ditch,
the ravens eat him.
If he falls into the hedges,
the snails eat him.
If he falls into the swamp, the rider makes: plumps!
All-time classics. To refresh.
Bake bake cake
Bake bake cake,
the baker called!
Who wants to bake good cake,
he must have seven things:
Eggs and lard, butter and salt,
Milk and flour, saffron makes the cake!
Heal, heal blessings
seven days of rain,
seven days of sunshine,
everything will be well again.
Heal, blessings,
seven days of rain,
seven days of snow,
does not hurt the child anymore.
