Double, Double
Start with your hands in a fist. ‘Double
Double’
Let your fingers loose ‘This This’
Bring your fingers back & make fists again ‘Double
Double’
Turn your hands around and fingers free ‘That That’
then do just one of everything ‘Double This
Double That’
Two fists again
‘Double
double
And one flat front and back This That…
Double!’ .”
Concentration
‘This is a game’ (2 pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
‘of
concentration’ (2 pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
‘No repeats’ (2
pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
‘or hesitations’ (2 pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
‘I’ll go first’
(2 pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
‘you’ll go second’ (2 pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
‘the topic is…’ (2 pat-a-cakes)
2 claps
Down, Down
Baby, Down By The Roller Coaster
‘Down
down baby
Down
by
The
roller coaster’ (wavy hands)
‘Sweet
sweet baby
I’ll
never
Let
you go’ (cross hands- shoulder to shoulder, hugging self)
‘Shimmy
shimmy cocoa pop
shimmy shimmy
pow! (with right thumb
out, bring fist back beside ear)
‘shimmy shimmy cocoa pop
shimmy shimmy
breakdown! (with thumbs out, bring fists back beside ears)
‘I
like coffee
I
like tea
I
like my friends
And
my friends like me.
To
the front (jump forward)
To
the back (jump backwards)
To
the side, side, side (jump to the right, the left, and the right again)
To
the front (jump forward)
To
the back (jump backwards)
To
the side, side, side (jump to the right, the left, and the right again)
My
sick baby’s
Sittin’
in bed
called
the doctor
And
the doctor said
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the head
Ding dong (index finger pointing
to temples, tip head side to side)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the head
Ding dong (index finger pointing
to temples, tip head side to side)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the hands
(clap,
clap)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the hands
(clap,
clap)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the feet
(stomp
one foot, then the other)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the feet
(stomp
one foot, then the other)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the
h-o-o-o-t
stuff (put hands on hips, move hips in circle)
Let’s
get the rhythm
Of
the
h-o-o-o-t
stuff (put hands on hips, move hips in circle)
Put
it all together
And
what do you get
Ding
dong (head motion), clap clap, stomp stomp, h-o-o-o-t stuff (move hips)
Put
it all backwards
And
what do you get
h-o-o-o-t
stuff (move hips), stomp stomp, clap clap, ding dong (head motion)!
A Sailor Went To Sea, Sea, Sea
‘A (clap)
sai- (right
hands reach across to clap)
lor (clap)
went (left
hands reach across to clap)
to (clap)
sea (both
hands backwards)
sea (both
hands frontwards)
sea (clap)
repeat above motions for each column of words:
to but was
the
see all bottom
what that of
the
he he deep
could could blue
see see sea
see see sea
see see sea!”
Shame
I
don’t (clap
middle)
Want
to (clap above)
Eat
my (clap
below)
Vegetables (clap middle)
No
more, more, more (3 claps above)
There
are (middle)
Cakes (below)
And (middle)
Ice
cream (above)
At
the (middle)
Store,
store, store (3 below)
If
you (middle)
Give (above)
Me (middle)
Celery (below) pause
(middle)
I’ll
trade (above)
It
in for (middle)
HersheysTM (below)
Cause-I-don’t (middle)
Want
to (above)
Eat
my (below)
Vegetables (middle)
No
more, more, more (3 above)
Shame! (point
at each other)
Down By The Banks
Down (legs)
By
(legs)
The
banks (clap)
Of (clap)
The han- (pat-a-cake)
Ky (pat-a-cake)
Panky (clap)
Where (clap)
The bull (legs)
Frogs (legs)
Jump (clap)
From (clap)
Bank (pat-a-cake)
to (pat-a-cake)
banky (clap)
singing (clap)
eep (scissors)
opp (scissors)
eep (switched scissors)
opp (switched
scissors)
opp (pat-a-cake)
skiddle (clap)
diddle (legs)
ker-plop! (squat down)
Miss Mary Mack
shoulders legs clap right clap left clap right
Miss Ma- ry Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black black black
With sil- ver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back
She asked her mother mother mother
For fif- teen cents cents cents
To see the elephants elephants elephants
Jump over the fence fence fence
They jumped so high high high
They reached the sky sky sky
And they never came back back back
‘Till the fourth of July July July
You lie!