Watch, listen, and move along with these fun preschool fingerplays! Fingerplays combine simple words, hand movements, and repetition to help young children develop language, listening, memory, and fine-motor skills while having fun. This collection includes fingerplays beginning with letters A-Z.
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Traditional
Bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish
How many pieces do you wish?
1, 2, 3...Pop!
Author Unknown
Here is the beehive, Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive
One, two, three, four, five
Bzzzzzzzz… all fly away
Traditional
I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop
I told the little bird to stop, stop, stop
I went to the window to say “How do you do?”
He wagged his little tail and far away he flew
Traditional
The itsy, bitsy spider, climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
So the itsy, bitsy spider went up the spout again
Traditional
This little piggie went to market
This little piggie stayed at home
This little piggie had roast beef
This little piggie had none.
And this little piggie cried “Wee, wee,” all the way home
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Traditional Nursery Rhyme
Tune: Frère Jacques or Are You Sleeping
Note: This version includes only Thumbkin, Pointer, and the whole family.
Add Tall Man, Ring Man, and Pinky to include all five fingers.
Where is thumbkin?
Where is thumbkin?
Here I am
Here I am
How are you today sir?
Very well, I thank you
Run away
Run away
Additional verses:
Where is pointer?
Where is tall man?
Where is ring man?
Where is pinkie?
Where is whole family?
