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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 to both kids today, and they LOVED it 🙂 The original lyrics are as follows:

Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb
(Child’s name) had a little nose, little nose, little nose
(Child’s name) had a little nose, it’s oh so nice to touch (touch child’s nose).

When I saw both my kids liked it, I kept singing it but I changed the body parts up every verse (nose, mouth, fingers, toes, knees, etc). I also changed the last part from “It’s oh so nice to touch” to “it’s oh so nice to tickle” and then I gave the body part a little tickle. My little ones cracked up! This is SUCH a cute and easy-to-remember song to work on teaching body parts.

Happy Thursday…which means its almost F R I D A Y!

Cheers!

About Katie

Katie is a licensed, credentialed and certified pediatric speech-language pathologist and mom to four (8, 6, 3 and 6 months). Her passion for educating, inspiring and empowering parents of children with all abilities led her to start her blog playing with words 365 where she shares information about speech & language development & intervention strategies, parenting, photography and a little about her family life too. Katie has been working in the field of speech pathology for 12 years and is certified in The Hanen Centre’s It Takes Two to Talk ® and Target Word ® programs and holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). In addition to blogging and being a mommy, Katie works part time in her small private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Comments

  1. Love and Lollipops says

    November 5, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    Hi Katie,

    Thanks so much for popping by my blog today and your lovely comment! I’m so thrilled that something I did can inspire you and perhaps be helpful to your little one 🙂

    I love this idea for teaching body parts! Going to pin it right now!

    Take care,
    Georgia

    Reply
    • Katie says

      November 5, 2011 at 12:56 pm

      Hi Georgia! So glad you stopped by, thank you! Yes, my kids LOVE this little song!! Thanks in advance for the pin!!

      Reply
  2. Mandy says

    May 31, 2014 at 6:07 am

    Great idea for teaching about the body. I use songs, too, with my kids. Here are two of their favorites:

    1) “The Parts of You and Me” on Toddler World TV
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_xMQGyc8WQ

    2) “One Little Finger” on Super Simple Songs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBVqcTEC3zQ

    Reply

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