The Eentsy, Weentsy Spider: Fingerplays and Action Rhymes

by Stephanie Calmenson, Joanna Cole, Stephanie Cole, Joanna, & Calmenson

Book Overview

A companion to the best-selling Anna Banana: 101 Jump-Rope Rhymes, here is a collection of nearly forty fingerplays and action rhymes that have been chanted, sung, and enjoyed for generations. Children and their parents can join the eentsy, weentsy spider in its climb up the waterspout, pretend to pound in a nail while singing The Hammer Song, and tip their bodies over for I'm a Little Teapot.

Included are such favorites as The Wheels on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688108059
• ISBN13: 9780688108052
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

great

this book is just what I was looking for. the songs and poems are short and easy. lots of old favorites and new ones, too.

nice book of fingerplays

This book contains 38 finger plays, from the well-known (I'm a Little Teapot) to ones I've never heard of (Here are Mother's Knives and Forks). Each is in big type with large illustrations to show you how to do the fingerplay. For those that are sung, musical arrangements are at the back of the book, along with a bibliography and index.Excellent resource for the fingerplay challenged!

Joanna Cole succeeds again

As someone with training in folklore, I always trust a book with Joanna Cole's name on it. This book does a very good job of showing (rather than desscribing) the actions and provides the words and music. As it is folklore, you will find some of the fingerplays or action rhymes from your childhood as well as new additions to your repetoire. As I have come to expect, I believe that the publishing company has underestimated the age range for which the book is appropriate ... listen to your young friends after their first camping trip with the cub scouts, bluebirds etc. and you will find that even at that ages children are teaching children some of these plays.

Fantastic book to keep kids entertained

I love this book! I use it all the time when I want to keep kids up to 6 years old busy. I have kids who visit who beg me to bring out the book to do the finger plays. I recommend it highly.