New Caregiver and Baby Lapsit Program

 

Every Tuesday Morning at 10am

• Babies (aged birth through 14 months) and their caregivers are invited to join us for a short program of sharing gentle songs, action rhymes, and simple board books together.
• Coloring pages will be available for older children so you and your baby can focus on one another.

Here Are Some of the Rhymes We Will Be Doing:

Hello Song (melody: London Bridge)

Help Baby to Wave Throughout the Song

Hi, hello and how are you?

How are you? How are you?

Hi, hello and how are you?

How are you today?

 

Exercises, Exercises

Lift baby's arms in the air to the rhythm of this rhyme

Exercises, exercises

Let's do all our exercises

Exercises, exercises

Let's do all our exercises

 

Say, Say Oh Baby

Hold baby on lap and do what the song tells you to do

Say, say oh baby,

Come here and clap with me.

And bring your happy smile,

Bounce on my lap so free.

Shake, shake your hands now.

Shake, shake your bottom too.

And shake your tootsies ten.

Let's do it again.

 

Hickety, Pickety

Help babies clap hands

Hickety, pickety, my black hen.

She lays eggs for gentlemen.

Gentlemen come every day.

To see what my black hen doth lay.

 

Great A, Little a

Help baby clap hands or bounce babies on lap

Great A, little a

Bouncing B

The cat's in the cupboard

But she can't see me

Peek-a-boo!

 

To Market, To Market

Ride baby on knees or lap

To market, to market

To buy a fat pig.

Home again, home again,

Jiggity, jig

To market, to market,

To buy a fat hog.

Home again, home again,

Jiggity, jog.

 

Rickety, Rickety, Rocking Horse

Ride baby on knees

Rickety, rickety rocking horse.

Over the hills we go.

Gently rock baby on lap and hug baby

Rickety, rickety rocking horse.

Giddy-up, giddy-up, whoa!

 

Trot, trot to Boston

Bounce baby on knees

Trot, trot to Boston,

Trot, trot to Lynne.

Look out, baby,

You're going to fall in!

Lower knees on "in"

 

Here We Go Up, Up, Up

Here we go up, up, up.

Lift baby up

Here we go down, down, down.

Bring baby back to lap

Here we go up, up, up.

Lift baby up

Here we go down, down, down.

Bring baby back to lap

 

Grand Old Duke of Yorke

Raise baby up while baby is riding on knees or lift baby up in the air and lower as the words indicate.

Oh, the grand old Duke of York,

He had ten thousand men.

He marched them up,

To the top of the hill,

And he marched them down again.

And when they're up, they're up,

And when they're down, they're down.

And when they're only halfway up,

they're neither up nor down.

 

Shoe the Old Horse

Shoe the old horse,

Tap one foot

Shoe the old mare.

Tap the other foot

But let the pony,

Run bare, bare, bare.

Tap feet together

 

Diddle, Diddle Dumpling

Diddle, diddle dumpling,

"Bicycle" babies legs or arms

My son Jon.

Went to bed with his trousers on.

One shoe off,

Tap one foot

And one shoe on.

Tap the other foot

Diddle, diddle dumpling,

"Bicycle" babies legs or arms

My son Jon.

 

Star Light

Open and close your fingers to make "twinkles" as you say.

Star light, star bright.

First star I see tonight.

I wish I may, I wish I might.

Have the wish I wish tonight.

 

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Open and close your fingers to make "twinkles" as you say.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

 

Good Bye Song (melody: london bridge)

Help baby to wave and blow kisses

Good-bye, good-bye,

We'll see you soon.

Good-bye, good-bye,

We'll see you soon.

On another day.