Hokey Cokey

What you need

Your listening ears, and space to move around!

Benefits

This song will enhance your child’s hand-eye coordination, their listening skills, their ability to follow directions, and their reading readiness through the song’s actions. It will also develop their language skills.

The experience

Are you ready for some dancing?

This is an action game song, where the lyrics are imitated through movement using simple actions, starting off with your feet, arms and then your whole body. While watching the video, encourage your child to follow the moves while singing the song.

Why not share a video of your child trying out the moves on Famly? Lyrics:

You put your right foot in You take your right foot out You put your right foot in And you shake it all about You do the hokey cokey And you turn yourself around That's what it's all about

You put your left foot in You take your left foot out You put your left foot in And you shake it all about You do the hokey cokey And you turn yourself around That's what it's all about

You put your right hand inYou take your right hand out You put your right hand in And you shake it all about You do the hokey cokey And you turn yourself around That's what it's all about

You put your left hand in You take your left hand out You put your left hand in And you shake it all about You do the hokey cokey And you turn yourself around That's what it's all about

You put your whole self in You take your whole self out You put your whole self in And you shake it all about You do the hokey cokey And you turn yourself around That's what it's all about