Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Heads, Bellies, Toes By Rae Pica Feeling special begins with self-awareness (that sense of I), and a great starting point for self-awareness is body-parts identification. Of course, any time you give a child your undivided attention, you’re making her feel special! Before You Start Simply explain that, when you call out the name of a body part, you want her to touch that part. Let's Begin 1. Begin with a slow, rhythmic chant that gently moves the child down and up, as you call out heads, bellies, toes, and then reverse the order. 2. Once the child is experiencing success with this, and mix up the order of body parts. 3. Then add knees to the mix (heads, bellies, knees, and toes). Furthermore Vary the tempo at which you call out the body parts, or start out slowly and gradually accelerate the tempo. The faster you go, the harder your toddler will laugh!   No materials needed. 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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