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Owl Finger Puppet Tutorial (and Fingerplay!)

November 11, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Children's Songs and Fingerplays, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 46 Comments

The last couple months, my daughter E and I have been learning a a lot of new songs and fingerplays. Songs and fingerplays are an AWESOME and FUN way to help your child learn new language. They also are setting your child up to be better readers as songs and fingerplays, especially the ones that […]

Cute Song to Help Teach Body Parts

October 20, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Children's Songs and Fingerplays, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 4 Comments

I found this simple and cute song recently in a book, The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, that parents can sing to their infants and toddlers, (and SLPs can sing to their students), to help teach body parts. The song is called Baby’s Little Nose and was contributed by Karyn Everham. I sang it […]

Five Little Pumpkins Activities

October 17, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Books and Literacy Activities, Children's Songs and Fingerplays, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 3 Comments

In my last post, I talked about 10 Fun Fall and Halloween Songs and Fingerplays that you can do with your child/client/students. I mentioned at the end of my post that the fingerplay Five Little Pumpkins has an array of activities that can go along with it, and I would just love to share some […]

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