The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop by K.Baby Minds: Br ain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love by L.A Rocket in My Pocket: The rhymes and chants of young Americans by Carl Withers.Kids Make Music: Clapping and Tapping from Bach to Rock by Avery Hart.If you're super interested - or just looking for a lil' more fun, check out these great books! Fingertip leaves on an autumn tree? Little fingertip kids playing fingertip basketball? Spell your name in five different colors, one on each fingertip? If you’re in a real tailspin, offering a kid an opportunity to “paint your feelings” can magically release tension, worth a shot if you have the supplies on hand! We recommend one simple rule: fingertips only! It’s a parameter that makes kids think harder about what they can create and inspires more creativity in the process (and is easier to contain and clean than entire paint-soaked palms). This is getting a little on the crafty side, but still only requires paper and a basic water color set (you keep those in your car, right?) There’s a whole world of art (and mess, of course) once hands and paints get together. Once you master shuffling, try adding the best sound in the world, a bridge - like Polly does right here. This lovely sonic & tacticle experience has the residual effect of being useful next time grownups are playing poker. WHO’S CINDY LAUPER!?!? Alright, where’s the iPad, we have a new project.) Ooh, this coin grew up playing Mario Brothers and listening to Cindy Lauper. (Did you know coins have dates on them? Check it out! This one’s a Grampa coin. What can you spin like a top? A quarter? A Frisbee? Who can spin it the longest? What happens if two makeshift tops collide? This is one of the most useful activities involving coins, but of course there’s sorting and stacking coins by size and date. Requires a hard, flat surface and spin-able objects. Or if you’re anti-improvisation, order a My First Sock Puppet kit (I swear they’re not sponsoring us, we just like ‘em!)īack to a kinetic activity, good for one or more participants with meditative or competitive potential. Best if you have some stickers lying around for flair. Sock puppets tend to inspire funnier voices than shadow puppets. See shadow puppets, but with more physical decoration activity involved. Part of the process involves building the strength of your fingers as well as considering how the snap sound is actually made - ask yourself, do you know? It could take ten minutes to try and explain it, let alone master the musical maneuver. Turtle? She just hides, she’s really shy.Īlong with whistling and tying shoes, snapping is one of the most elusive skills of childhood. And finally, if you need some narrative magic (for the non-competitive or to diffuse or redirect competitive juices) just start inventing new objects your hands can be. Second, it fits the amount of time available - you can play it once to settle an unrelated quarrel (such as who gets to go first), best of five for some variety, or a whole tournament with a big group of friends. The beauty of this game is threefold: first of all, it’s even simpler and more universal than hand-clapping games, no rhymes or coordination required and all genders and age groups are likely to join in. Here are some more great videos of Jazzy Ash clapping with her friends in the studio: Miss Mary Mack and Head & Shoulders, Baby.
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