Nursery rhymes games
Two Bouncing Games:
Trot trot to Boston
(bounce baby on your knees)
To buy a loaf of Bread
Trot trot home again
The old horse is dead. (stop bouncing
on the word dead)
Trot Trot to Boston (bound baby on
knees)
Trot Trot to Lynn
Trot Trot home again
But don't fall in (while holding baby
let baby swing to the right or left)
From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles
(bounce baby, but faster bounce on fifteen miles)
From Wobbleton to Wibbleton is fifteen miles
Wibbleton to Wobbleton
Wobbleton to Wibbleton
From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles.
A Lift Game:
Hickory Dickory Dare
The pig flew up in the air (lift baby
above your head)
The man in brown, he brought him down (slowly
lower baby back down)
Hickory Dickory Dare
Clapping Games (Besides Patty Cake!):
There is Pease Porridge Hot (clap babies hands
together)
Pease Porridge Cold (clap babies
hands on knees)
Pease Porridge in the Pot (clap
babies hands together)
Nine Days Old (clap babies hands on knees)
Some like them Hot (continue
clapping as above)
Some like them Cold
Some like them in the Pot
Nine days old.
A Tickle Game:
Creepie Mousie, Creepie Mousie
(walk two fingers up babies arm)
From the barney to the housey (walk
two fingers very quickly and tickle under arm)
