Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Music for Learning Recommended Reading Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Campfire Songs By Julie Joy An Activity for Preschoolers Fingerplays and songs encourage movement and motor skills. It is important to feed growing baby brains lots of language and music. Curriculum Area Gross Motor and Language Before You Start Position baby so you can look at each other while playing. Let's Begin 1. Sing the following camping song to the tune of "The Farmer and the Dell": A camping we will go, A camping we will go, Pack our bag and off we go, A camping we will go. WEEE! 2. Move the baby’s hands and arms with the rhythm. Encourage her to clap. 3. Add additional verses like, A hiking we will go, A fishing we will go, and so on. 4. Place baby on you lap and gently bounce her as you sing. Furthermore Sing other campfire songs or play music for baby to listen and move to.   Adult and child Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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