This morning my list-making has to do with ways to keep the kids entertained on a loooong journey home. I’ve made a list of card games to play with JediBoy (Go Fish, War, Old Maid, Concentration, Crazy 8s, Slapjack, Snap, Beggar Your Neighbor, Go Boom, and then, if he’s feeling up to more complex rules, Kings in the Corners, Spit, Spoons/Pig, I Doubt It, Gin Rummy and Hearts) and a shorter list of dice games, leading me to decide to leave the dice at home and just take an extra deck of cards.
I’m also listing fingerplays and songs I used to sing with JediBoy. It’s amazing how deeply these bits of information have been buried beneath other essential things - like the lyrics to My Hair Had a Party Last Night and how to count to 18 in Roman Numerals along with the music - so much so that when I was talking with JediBoy about the songs and games we’d play I could barely remember any. So I’ve been rereading books I read when he was tiny, and sheets from lapsit story times. It’s amazing to me that they were so hard for me to recall. Now, I could easily remember the words and motions once I thought of a title, but it was remembering what titles were in there that was a challenge. So - especially for those of you who know me IRL - remind me! What songs did I / do you sing with little ones? Here’s what I’ve thought of so far this morning.
These are the ones I “know” by a title:
Open, Shut Them / Pat-a-Cake / Johnny Whoops / I’m a Little Teapot / Jack Be Nimble / Hey Diddle Diddle / Mary Had a Little Lamb / To Market / If You’re Happy / Hickory Dickory / Oats, Peas, Beans / The Muffin Man / Three Little Kittens / Old King Cole / Pease Porridge / Rub-a-dub-dub / Baa, Baa, Black Sheep / Six Little Ducks / Little Miss Muffet / Down by the Station / Itsy Bitsy Spider / Where is Thumbkin? / This Little Piggy / Did You Ever See a Lassie? / Twinkle, Twinkle / Jack and Jill / Riding in the Buggy / One Potato / Skinnamarink / Little Boy Blue / Diddle Diddle Dumpling / Humpty Dumpty / This is the Way - Animals, Horse Rider, Chores / Little Bo Peep / Pop Goes the Weasel / Green & Speckled Frogs / Head and Shoulders / Old MacDonald / The Wheels on the Bus / Five Little Monkeys - Bed, Tree / Ten in the Bed / The More We Get Together / If All the Raindrops
These are the ones I “know” by the first line:
Here’s a nest for a robin. / Creeping, creeping, creeping, comes the little cat. / A little ball, a bigger ball, a great big ball I see! / Mix a pancake, stir a pancake, pop it in a pan. / I am a little duck and I go quack, quack, quack. / Baby looked at the moon. / Here we go UP, UP, UP! / Leg over leg, the dog goes to Dover. / Mr. Duck went out to walk in bright and sunny weather. / Rickety, rickety, rocking horse, over the fields we go. / Father and Mother and Uncle John went to market one by one. / Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross / Two little blackbirds, sitting on a hill. / Fee, fi, fo, fum, see my fingers, see my thumbs. / Five little kittens standing in a row. / Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? / I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. / Nanny-banny bumblebee, Baby is my cup of tea. / Up, up, up in the sky like this. Down, down, down for a great big kiss. / One potato, two potato, three potato BOO! Four potato, five potato, I LOVE YOU! / Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around. / Here are mother’s knives and forks; here is father’s table. / Five fat peas in a peapod pressed. / Oh, Mrs. Sippy-O had a little baby-o. / Mary, Mary, quite contrary. / I went to town to get some butter / 1-2-3-4-5 I caught a fish alive! / Round and round the garden goes the teddy bear. / Here is the beehive, where are the bees? / Reach down low, stretch up high. / The bear went over the mountain / This is Bill Anderson, that is Tom Sims. / Polly put the kettle on / I am popcorn in a pot. / Bumpin’ up and down in my little red wagon / Shoe the old horse / Clap, clap, clap your hands as SLOWLY as you can. / Up to the ceiling, down to the floor. / Trot, trot to Boston town.
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