Touch your Fingers to Your Toes

Tune: London Bridge

(perform actions)

Touch your fingers to your toes

To your toes, to your toes

Touch your fingers to your toes

1-2-3-4-5

Dance Your Fingers Up

(do the actions indicated by the rhyme)

Dance your fingers up, dance your fingers down

Dance your fingers to the side, dance them all around.

Dance them on our shoulders, dance them on your head

Dance them on your tummy, and put them all to bed.

Here are Baby's Fingers

These are baby’s fingers
(Wiggle baby’s fingers)

These are baby’s toes
(Wiggle baby’s toes)

This is baby’s belly button
(Gently circle belly button)

Round and round it goes.

Two Pointy Fingers

Two pointy fingers I can show
(Hold up both of your index fingers.)

Way up high or way down low.
(Hold your index fingers up high & down low.)

With my right, I point to my toe.
(Right index finger points toward toe.)

With my left, I show where to go.
(Point to the left.)

Two pointy fingers I can show
(Hold up both of your index fingers.)

To show you things that I know!
(Point straight ahead, then to head.)

All for Baby

Here's a Ball for Baby
(touch fingertips of both hands together to make a ball)
Big and soft and round.

Here's the baby's hammer
(pound one fist on the other)
Oh, see how he can pound

Here is the baby's music
(clap hands)
Clapping, clapping so

Here are the baby's soldiers
(hold up hands with ten fingers)
Standing in a row.

Here is baby's trumpet
(hold one fist over the other in front of mouth)
Toot, too, too, too, too

Here's the way that baby plays at peek-a-boo
(cover eyes with fingers)

Here's a big umbrella
(form fist with one hand and extend index finger, cup the other hand over the finger to form an umbrella)
To keep the baby dry.

Here is baby's cradle
(interlock fingers to make cradle)
Rock-a-baby bye.

Fingers

My fingers can stand up straight and tall
(hold fingers tall)

My fingers can bend and very very small
(bend fingers)

My fingers can clasp my hands in a ball
(make fist and grab with other hand)

My fingers can jump, my fingers can fall.

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo
(point to each finger)

Catch a tiger by the toe
(catch a finger following the rhyme)

When he hollers let him go
(let go of finger)

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo

Rock-A-Bye Baby, Thy Cradle is Green

Rock-A-Bye Baby, Thy Cradle is Green
(fold arms and rock them)

Father's a nobleman, and Mother's a Queen

And Betty's a Lady and wears a gold ring
(make ring with thumb and index finger, slide over ring finger of other hand)

And Johnnie's a Drummer who drums for the king.

The Family

This is my Father
(point to thumb)

This is my mother
(point to index finger)

This is my brother tall
(point to middle finger)

This is my sister
(point to ring finger)

This is the baby
(point to little finger)

Oh! How we love them all!
(clasp hands)

Little Turtle

There was a little turtle,
(Make small circle with hands.)

He lived in a box,
(Make a box with both hands.)

He swam in a puddle,
(Wriggle hands.)

And climbed on the rocks.
(Climb fingers of one hand up over the other.)

He snapped at a mosquito.
(Clap hands)

He snapped at a flea.
(Clap hands.)

He snapped at a minnow.
(Clap hands.)

He snapped at me.
(Point at self.)

He caught the mosquito.
(Hold hand up, palm forward; quickly bend fingers shut.)

He caught the flea.
(Repeat.)

He caught the minnow.
(Repeat.)

But he didn't catch me.
(Bend fingers only half-way shut.)

Family

Family
(open hand, extend fingers, and point to each following the rhyme)

This is the mother,
So kind and good
(point to thumb)

This is the father
who buys our food

This is the brother
So big and tall

This is the sister
Who loves her doll

This is the baby
So little you see

Short and tall is the family.

Five Little Soldiers

Five Little Soldiers standing in a row
(hold up fingers and count)

Three stood straight
(hold up three fingers straight)

And two stood so.
(bend two fingers)

Along came the Captain
(extend pointer finger on other hand and move towards)

And what do you think?

They all stood straight, as quick as a wink

Five Little Kittens

Five Little Kittens standing in a Row
(hold up left hand, extend fingers, count)

They nod their hands to the children so.
(bend fingers forward)

They run to the left, they run to the right.
(wiggle fingers to the left, then to the right)

They stand up and stretch in the bright sunlight
(stretch fingers up slowly)

Along comes a dog, who's in for some fun.
(move right fist slowly towards stretching fingers)

M-e-ow, see those kittens run.
(run and hide left fingers behind your back)

Five Fingers

Five  Fingers

Five fingers on this hand
(hold up one hand)

Five fingers on that
(hold up other hand)

A dear little nose
(point to nose)

A mouth like a rose
(point to mouth)

Two cheeks so tiny and fat
(point to each cheek)

Two eyes, two ears
(point to each)

And ten little toes
(point to toes)

That's the way the baby grows

Mister Thumb

Mister Thumb

(make two fists)

Mister Thumb, Mister Thumb, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

(extend two thumbs and wiggle)

Peter Pointer, Peter Pointer, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

(extend pointer fingers and wiggle)

Ruby Ring, Ruby ring, where are you?

Here I am , here I am. How do you do?

(extend ring fingers and wiggle)

Baby Small, Baby Small, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

(extend pinky fingers and wiggle)

Fingers all, fingers all, where are you?

Here we are, here we are. How do you do?

(extend all fingers and wiggle)

Thumbkin, Pointer...

Thumbkin, Pointer...
(point at each finger and roll hands at the end)

Thumbkin, Pointer, Middleman Big,

Silly, Man, Wee Man, rig-a-jig

Tommy Thumb

Tommy Thumb

(point to each finger)

This is Tommy Thumb,

Round and smooth as any plum

This is busy Peter Pointer

Surely he's a double jointer

This is mighty Toby Tall

He's the biggest one of all

This is dainty Reuben Ring

He's too fine for anything

And this little wee one maybe,

Is the pretty Finger Baby!

Busy Fingers

Busy Fingers
(follow the action of the rhyme)

This is the way my fingers stand, fingers stand, fingers stand,

This is the way my fingers stand, so early in the morning.

This is the way they dance about, dance about, dance about

This is the way they dance about, so early in the morning.

This is the way I fold my hands, fold my hands, fold my hands

This is the way I fold my hands, so early in the morning.

This is the way they go to rest, go to rest, go to rest

This is the way they go to rest, so early in the morning.
(cup hands in your lap)

Ten Fingers

Ten Fingers
(follow the actions in the rhyme)

I have ten fingers

And they all belong to me

I can make them do things,

Would you like to see?

I can shut them up tight

Or open them up wide

I can put them together

Or make them all hide

I can make them jump high

I can make them jump low

I can fold them quietly

And hold them just so.

This Little Wind Blows Rain

 This Little Wind Blows Rain

(tap fingers like 'This Little Piggy')

This little wind blows rain

This little wind drifts snow

This little wind brings the sunshine

This little wind whistles low

And this little wind

Rocks the baby birds to and fro.