Toddler / Infant Game Online: More Animal Fingerplays

Here are more fingerplays related to animals. These fingerplays songs will help stir your child's creative imagination when remembering the animals mentioned in these fingerplay songs and rhymes.

Doggie's House
This is doggie's house. (create an "O" sign by putting tip of thumb and fingers together)
Is the doggie home?
Put your finger in... (let child put finger in hole)
Doggie's chewing a bone? (close the "hole" lightly as if nipping the child's finger)

Piggy on the Railway
Piggy on the railway, (pretend to pick up stones)
Picking up stones;
Along came an engine (bang fist against palm)
And broke Piggy's bones.
"Oh!" said Piggy, (raise hands in surprise and anger)
"That's not fair."
"Oh!" said the engine driver, (shrug shoulders and turn away)
"I don't care!"

Toddler / Infant Game Online: More Animal Fingerplays

The Ostrich
Here is the ostrich straight and tall, (raise one arm for ostrich)
Nodding his head above us all.(use your raised wrist to 'nod' like an ostrich head)
Here is the hedgehog prickly and small, (hold hands together with fingers in a panel)
Rolling himself into a ball. (cup both hands into a ball)
Here is the spider scuttling around (turn one hand over and wriggle fingers like a spider)
Treading so lightly on the ground. (let fingers crawl on baby's arm or leg)
Here are the birds that fly so high, (interlock both thumbs while rest of fingers spread out like a bird)
Spreading their wings across the sky.
Here are the children fast asleep, (pretend to be asleep)
And in the night the owls do peep, (ring eyes with fingers for owl eyes)
Too wee too wee too!

Mousie
Mousie comes a-creeping, creeping. (close fist and push index finger of ther hand through)
Mousie comes a-peeping, peeping. (push finger through until tip of index finger just appears)
Mousie said, "I'd like to stay, (wriggle index finger through the "hole")
But I haven't time today."
Mousie popped into his hole (pull index finger suddenly out of sight!)
And said, "Achoo!
I've got a cold!"

Toddler / Infant Game Online: More Animal Fingerplays

Little Rabbit
Little cottage in a wood, (make roof of cottage with hands pointing upwards)
Little man at a window stood, (look through hands like holding binoculars)
Saw a rabbit runny by,(use 2 fingers to make a rabbit)
Knocking at the door. (mke fist to knock at imaginary door)
"Help me! Help me! Help me!" he cried, (shoot hands upward from shoulders and down while rabbit is talking)
"See the hunters on their way." (point)
Little Rabbit come inside, (make "come" gesture with hand)
You'll be safe with me." (stroke hand and place both hands on chest)

Round about there
Round about there (swirl your index finger around palm of child's hand)
Sat a little hare,
A cat came and chased him (walk fingers up child's arm)
Right about there! (tickle child's underarm)

Toddler / Infant Game Online: More Animal Fingerplays

The Little Bird
This little bird flaps its wings, (flap outstretched fingers like wings of a bird)
Flaps its wings, flaps its wings, (lift hands still flapping as high as you can
This little bird flaps its wings, (lift higher and higher!)
And flies away in the morning!

Toddler / Infant Game Online: More Animal Fingerplays