Course Description

Fingerplays are a wonderful way to build language and fine motor skills in the early years through the early grades.

How can you include fingerplays in your day?

  • Add a fingerplay to your daily rhythm (for example, when you sit down for snack)
  • Add fingerplays to your circle time
  • Warm up the hands for handwork, modeling, recorder, or writing with a couple fingerplays
  • Use fingerplays when your child needs help to gather his attention and focus
  • Anytime, just for fun!

The easiest, quickest way to learn a fingerplay is to watch someone do it!  I recorded these fingerplay videos (31 total) so you can have a repertoire always at your fingertips.  

Please note these videos are intended for parent/teacher preparation, not for sharing with children (young children learn language skills best via interactions with people, not screens). I hope you enjoy them!

Lavender's Blue Homeschool

My goal is to help you have a beautiful, joyful Waldorf-inspired homeschool experience....with no overwhelm or burn-out included!  I can't wait to have you in our Lavender's Blue crew this year!  xo, Kelly

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Autumn Leaves

    • Balloon

    • Five Little Pumpkins

    • Five Little Squirrels

    • Here Stands an Apple Tree

    • If I had a Little Turtle

    • Ten Red Apples

    • The Elephant

    • Wintertime is on its Way
  2. 2

    • Little Nancy Petticoat

    • Open Shut Them

    • Ready for a Nap

    • Stir a Bowl of Gingerbread

    • Tub, Tub, Tub

    • Where is Thumbkin

    • Good Morning Mrs. Hen

    • Here is a Cave

    • Here is the Church
  3. 3

    • A Farmer Once Planted

    • Caterpillar Wind About

    • Five Little Robins

    • Here are Mother's Knives and Forks

    • Here is the Beehive

    • If I were a Bird

    • Itsy Bitsy Spider

    • Little Robin Redbreast

    • Rain on the Green Grass

    • See See See

    • Ten Peas in a Peapod

    • Ten Yellow Chicks

    • This is a Nest