The song is easy to learn. It has a quiet quality and needs to sung with a lovely singing voice. The last note needs to be held while the piano plays a short ending.
Teach the song with a simple beat pattern of both hands touching lap following by two claps of the hands. Cue this as Down Clap Clap. Emphasize that the first action is the strong beat while the clapping is the weak beat. They should FEEL that strong beat so make it a loud clap on the lap followed by two softer claps of the hands.
As soon as you can hear and feel that Strong Weak Weak beat of the movement add the song. End by doing Down Clap Clap Down
Only doing what I did above will entertain the children for a couple of minutes. It is much too easy once they can do it. So the fun part of this song is to see how many triple beat patterns the children can invent that will go with this song. And then let the children take turns leading the movement while everyone sings.
Some examples: Stomp foot, clap, clap; Clap, touch head, touch head; Clap, jump, jump
You want to let the children be as creative as they can without being irreverent and just plain silly.
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