Music time with your baby teaches more than you think. Take time with these baby songs each day and watch your baby grow.
Here are our favorite action songs for babies that your baby will fall in love with for hours of fun and developmental growth.
Let’s explore how to add these baby action songs into your baby’s routine at home.
Baby Songs
There are so many fun songs for babies out there but I bet it’s been years since you’ve sung them.
As a new parent, these baby songs listed below are some of my favorites.
Part of what makes them my favorite is that they are also moving parts of their bodies as you sing with them. Combining both auditory skills and movement skills with your baby songs involves different parts of their brain.
A big win in my books is when I can stimulate growth in various parts of my baby’s development.
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Clap Clap Clap Your Hands!
My daughter learned to clap recently and now she’s clapping at everything she does. She even claps when she successfully falls down from standing, too funny. It made me stop and think about how much we’ve been modeling for her how to clap and what fun it can be to celebrate the little things.
Of course, the teacher in me was spinning ideas of all the benefits she’s learning from learning songs with Mommy. Plus now we can add instruments like these baby instruments on Amazon to our music fun too.
Most importantly singing with your children creates such a special bond between you and your little one.
Skills to Develop during Music Time for Babies
- Builds language development
- Allows for self-expression
- Learning about body parts
- Increases listening skills and opportunities to follow directions
- Builds social awareness
- Increases attention span
- Teaches order and sequence
- Builds dexterity and muscle control
I hope that you’ll take time each day to sing with your baby!
Music is such a gift in the life of a child.
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Action Songs for Babies
Here are some fun ACTION songs we’ve been singing for our baby songs.
Clap Clap Clap Your Hands
Clap clap clap your hands
Clap your hands together
Clap clap clap your hands
Clap your hands together.
TIP: You can easily substitute clap into any action word like stomp, jump tap wiggle and change hands to a different body part.
We like to sing this version as I lift her up in the air too.
Jump jump jump up high
Jump way up in the sky
Jump jump jump up high
Jump way up in the sky
If You’re Happy and You Know It
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!
TIP: You can change clap to any action word too! (Shake, wave, snap, reach up high etc.)
The Merry Goes ‘Round by Jewel
The Baby Hokey Pokey
You put your arms up
You put your arms down
You put your arms up
And you wave them all around
You tickle, tickle, tickle
And you wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
The baby hokey pokey is fun!
You put your legs up
You put your legs down
You put your legs up
And you wave them all around
You tickle, tickle, tickle
And you wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
The baby hokey pokey is fun!
You put your baby up
You put your baby down
You put your baby up
And you wave her all around
You tickle, tickle, tickle
And you wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
The baby hokey pokey is fun!
TIP: This song teaching about all body parts with your baby, get creative!
What are your favorite Action Songs you sing with your Baby?
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Music Ideas for Baby Songs
Looking for more ways to have fun with music with your baby? Here are some instruments ideas to go along with your music time for babies.
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- Create your Own Musical Instruments
- Growing Your Own Instruments
- Tips on How to Play with your 2 Month Old Baby
You can check out more Baby Time ideas on our site!
Hope you enjoy these adorable baby songs with movements with your littlest one!
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Thanks Activity Mom for sharing! Shonda so glad you're following us on facebook now! Hope your little ones loves them as much as mine does.
Robyn are library always gives us a print out when we attend our story time. Maybe you could ask yours if she's willing to do it. I'm just like you I forget it unless I've seen it in print.
Great post! I have a fair ammount of songs in my head that I can pull out any time to sing… but then when we attend storytime at the library and the super-fun library lady does all of her fabulous hand rhymes/songs with the kids- it makes me crazy that I can't remember them all when I want to! They are simple and I think I'll remember them at the time… but then when it comes down to it… I draw a blank. I need to go to her and get a list with all the hand movements and study them or something! anyway- great post
Yay! Easy ideas, I just need to do them with my baby!
Shared this with all my mom friends with babies!