tune: "Jingle Bells"
Tap your toes.
Shake your head.
Turn yourself around.
We're ready now for circle time,
so won't you please sit down?
-Marie E. Cecchini
Circle time
tune: "Row row row your boat"
Hush, hush, quiet please.
Come and stand around
Take two hands and form a circle
Now, let's all sit down.
Open shut them
Traditional fingerplay
Open shut them, open shut them,
Give a little clap.
Open shut them, open shut them,
Put them in your lap.
Creep them, creep them, creep them, creep them,
Right up to your chin, chin, chin,
Open up your little mouth (hesitate)
But do not let them in.
On my head
(Do corresponding motions while saying)
On my head my hands I place.
On my shoulders, on my face,
On my hips, and at my side,
Then behind me they will hide,
I will hold them up so high,
quickly make my fingers fly (wiggle fingers)
Hole them out in front of me,
Swiftly clap them. One, two, three! (clap clap clap)
Up to the ceiling-fingerplay
Up to the ceiling (raise hands up)
Down to the floor (put hands down)
Left to the window (point left with the left hand)
Right to the door (point right with the right hand)
This is my right hand-raise it up high (raise right hand)
This is my left hand-reach for the sky (raise left hand)
Right hand, left hand (twirle hands one over another)
Twirl them around.
Left hand, right hand
pound, pound, pound (hit fists together on top of one another.)
Jelly in the bowl
Jelly in the bowl (marching)
Jelly in the bowl
wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble (shake all over)
Jelly in the bowl. (marching again)
Each time you sing the song, get faster and faster, and the kids love it!