(Sing to the tune of "Happy Birthday")

Good morning to you
Good morning to you
Good morning dear baby (substitute baby's name)
Good morning to you

(Suggestion: moving around the circle singing to each child.)

(Touch each finger starting with the pinky)

This little cow eats grass.
This little cow eats hay.
This little cow looks over the hedge.
This little cow runs away.
And this BIG cow does nothing at all
but lie in the field all day!
Let's chase her, and chase her and chase her! ("pounce" on thumb)

This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef.
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy cried,
wee, wee, wee all the way home.

Here sits Farmer Giles (touch forehead)
Here sits his two men (touch eyes)
Here sits the cockadoodle (touch nose)
Here sits the hen (touch mouth)
Here sits the little chickens (touch fingers between lips)
Here they run in (wiggle fingers on lips)
Chin chopper, chin chopper, chin, chin, chin (tickle under chin)

(Bounce baby up and down on your lap or knee)

To market, to market to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety jog.

To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

Two little blackbirds (wiggle both hands)
Sitting on a hill
One named Jack (wiggle right hand)
One named Jill (wiggle left hand)
Fly away Jack (hide right hand behind back)
Fly away Jill (hide left hand behind back)
Come back Jack (bring right hand back)
Come back Jill (bring left hand back)

Shoe the little horse (pat bottom of one foot)
Shoe the little mare (pat bottom of the other)
But let the little colt (wiggle feet with hands)
Run bare, bare, bare.

Round and round the garden goes the teddy bear (rub finger around baby's tummy)
One step, two step (creep your fingers slowly up the baby's body)
tickle you under there. (tickle under chin)

Giddyup horsie, to the fair.
What'll we buy when we get there?
A penny apple and a penny pear.
Giddyup horsie, to the fair.

My hands say thank you
With a clap, clap, clap.
My feet say thank you
With a tap, tap, tap.
Hands clap,
Feet tap
Roll your hands and wave "bye-bye."

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