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What you need
Your beautiful singing voices!
Benefits
- Learning about language, communication and developing new words
- Developing rhythm and rhyme awareness
- A great way to play and bond with your child
- Developing listening and concentration skills
- Family fun!
The experience
Find a cosy area at home and get ready for some wiggling to the Wiggly Woo worm song!
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
and his name is Wiggly Woo
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
and all that he can do
is wiggle all night and wiggle all day
He’s wiggling his life away
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
and his name is Wiggly Woo.
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
and his name is Wiggly Woo
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
and all that he can do
is wiggle all night and wiggle all day
He’s wiggling his life away
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
and his name is Wiggly Woo
And his name is Wiggly Woo
And his name is Wiggly Woo.
After listening to the song, why not try some imaginary play – encourage physical development by pretending to be a little wiggly worm. How does the worm wiggle and move? You can extend this learning by encouraging your child to copy how other animals move too, while learning about actions like leaping, stomping, shaking and flapping. Let your child take control of their own imagination and follow where it goes.
For younger children: place your baby on your lap so that they can enjoy feeling close to you. With toddlers, make sure that you have their attention and eye contact. Say or sing the rhyme, emphasising some of the movements or words such as wiggly woo, worm. Repeat the rhyme, but do so slowly and note the parts that the child seems to recognise.
Have fun!