We play wrestle and we get ruff. when she was a baby we werent ruff but we still play wrestled. when she was about 15 months old she headbutted me and knocked me out cold for a couple mins. now we get kinda ruff and she fights back hard. its something we have always done that gets us all playing together. she also loves it when i lift her up on my legs, i hold her hands and put my feet on her tummy and then lift her in the air. Sometimes she lets go for a second or i spread my legs and let her drop down to my hands. I have only missed once and i learned quick to keep my hands up cuz she busted my lip open.

I played  this game with my son, he loved it, it teaches baby sign lang. and animal names and sounds.

It's a song with actions so...

Sit with that baby on your knee if he sit unaided or lay him with is back on you thighs knees bent.

Do each action whan you sa the name of the animal or it's sound and Sing...

The bear goes up the hill  and raw raw raw! (claw your chest with 2 hands)

The monkey  goes up the hill eek eek eek!  (scrach your sides)

The Doggy goes up the hill  ruff ruff rufff!(tap you leg 3 more time saying)

Then cat  goes up the hill, meow meow meow! ("pull" your kitty wisker on each side of you nose) 

The the fish goes up the hill  glup glup glup!  ( make a swimming miton with you hands togeather)

The elephant (stroke an imaginary trunk from your nose up) goes up the hill  this time bounce the baby 3 times saying boom boom boom!

Last sing....         

And they all come down the hill  Bumpidy bumidy bump! ( bouncing the baby "wildy" as he tumbles down the hill with the animals.)

When the baby is old enough you can make his hnads do all the signs.

Junior would start laughing at the eleaphant and didn't stop untill we tumbled down the hil 2 or 3 times!

This is how he learned to sign his animals  he would sign ,,,more bear...more bear.. in just a couple of months he was doing all the actions

enjoy!!

My kids loved "ride a little horsey". You straddle them over both legs and sing ...ride a little horsey ride it to town ride a little horsey don't fall down! When you say don't fall down your holding their hands and open your legs to kinda let them fall but not on the ground.

My kids scored in the play arena, because I had them while I was still teaching and entertaining children...lots of tricks up my sleeve. We mostly enjoyed fingerplays and songs together...
"Miss Mary Mack" - "Wheels on the Bus" - "Little Fish" "Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Wall" etc
They loved the rhythms and hand motions. Even when they couldn't sing or speak , I went for it and probably looked ridiculous.

Of course there is always the favorite --- belly rasberries and kisses , which is sure to get a giggle. 
of course I didn't do that with my students :)

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I played airplane where you lay on the floor and put your feet to their legs and hold their hands and lift them into the air.

I ALWAYS did patta-cake and this little piggy with the toes.

I loved and still love to sing to them. I sang Somewhere over the rainbow, you are my sunshine, and amazing grace!

I know there's more, but it's not coming to me right now! lol

A-Always
U-Unique
T-Totally
I-Interesting
S-Sometimes
M-Mysterious

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