"Singing" love little children!
When playing with cuddly animals, each "animal" can get his own song/sing verse or verse! Use song parts (suitably to the cuddly animal!) that you know from your childhood, for example.
It works the same way for distracting: just start singing...
Collect your cuddly animals in a box or basket. And here we go...
Take out a cuddly animal or your child should bring you one and then start with a matching song verse to the respective cuddly animal!
Each animal retains its "song" and whenever the child comes with the cuddly animal, you can sing the song. Thus, songs are learned playfully through multiple repetitions and even if your child does not yet speak, it will eventually know the songs and sing along piece by piece, wag along, clap or imitate your movements!
Texts for the songs can be found here:
www.kinder-lieder.com
www.liederkiste.com
Examples:
Cuddly Toy: Bear
Song: I'm a big dance bear...
Cuddly toy: hedgehog
Song: Hedgehogs, hedgehogs look into the mirror...
Cuddly toy: duck
Song: All my ducklings...
Cuddly toy: hare
Song: Bunny in the pit...
Cuddly toy: cat
Song: Look at the cat dances alone... (cat dance)
Cuddly toy: horse
Song: Hopp, hopp, hopp Horses run Galop...
Song: Hoppe Hoppe Rider...
Cuddly toy: penguin
Song: Pitsch, pach, penguin...
Cuddly toy: parrot
Song: I have a little parrot...
Talkvers: Come by the parrot, early in the morning...
Song: The Papgeienlied
Cuddly toy: frog
Song: Mh, mh makes the green frog in the pond...
Song: We Fröschelein, we Fröschelein...
Cuddly toy: elephant
Song: An elephant, yes, the balanced...
Song: What kind of trees do they have to be...
Cuddly toy: lion
Song: We're going lion hunting...
Cuddly toy: snail
Song: I'm a little snail...
Krabbelspiel: Kriecht a Schneckle... up the mountain...
Cuddly toy: mouse
Song: Sleep my little moustache...
Fingerplay: This is Papamouse... (the mouse family)
Fingerplay: Dippe di dip, there comes a little mouse...
Cuddly toy: sheep
Song: who has the most beautiful sheep...
Song: mower, lamb, mow...
Cuddly toy: snake
Song: that's how the snake dances...
Song: a small snake, wakes up early in the morning...
Cuddly toy: monkey
Song: The monkeys are racing through the forest...
You will surely find for each of your cuddly animals a little squeaking, fingering, speaking line or singing song that your child likes. Make movements and "awaken the animals to life"...
Kids love hand puppets too!
Have fun trying it out.
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