Re: Dances for really young dancers

How about the Hokey Cokey. Most pre-schoolers in the UK know ‘If You’re Happy and you know it’ (tune Put your finger on your ear’) So I’ve adapted it to a circle dance. Start with a ‘calling on’ verse Now ev’rybody come and join the ring Now all join in and ev’rybody sing If you’re happy and you know it If you’re happy and you really want to show it If you’re happy and you know it join the ring. You all go to the middle clap your hands (/stamp your feet /jump up high / touch the floor) x2 You walk around the ring and ev’rybody sing If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (etc) Then a quiet verse You tiptoe to the middle, nod your head Etc And a loud finale You all go to the middle with a yell (hooray!) etc I learnt this one age about 7. I think tune was like the start of Down at the station early in the morning https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038fpqq Punchinella 1 child in middle, others walk round singing What are you doing little Punchinella, what are you doing Punchinella dear Child does an action, singing I’m doing this etc Others copy the action We’ll do it too Child choses another to go in From: Jim Thaxter jathaxter47(a)gmail.com [trad-dance-callers] Sent: 22 January 2019 06:15 To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [trad-dance-callers] Dances for really young dancers   We’re talking like down to two years old, hopefully with parents. With any luck parents will hold the younger ones and mom and dad, dad and dad, mom and mom will dance together. But does anyone have any ideas for if the parents don’t engage in the dancing but just want to take pictures of their darlings? It’s for a library program, about 30 minutes. Thanks for any thoughts you might have. Jim Thaxter Columbia, MO [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]