Saturday, November 25, 2006

Substitutions

Word substitution games are a great way to get the attention of very little children. If they know how to say a couple words, then they're ready to play. For the one-year-old's sake, we've been playing a lot of an ABC game, where we'll sing as shown below but substituting different sets of words in. The names of the people in the family is always a hit, and foods are a good category too. Increasingly, the baby will even sing the substituion word on pitch.

"A B C D E F _________"
"H I J K L M N O ________"
"Q R S T U ___________"
"W X Y ______________"
"Now I Know my A B __________"
"Next Time won't you sing with __________"

And then we all clap and have a good time.

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