Ways to support your children at home with

body percussion.

• Learn some action rhymes, such as ‘Wind the bobbin up’.

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• Play some commercially produced tapes and CD-roms. Clap along with familiar rhymes and learn new ones.

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• Listen to the sounds your feet make when walking, running or skipping: slowly, softly, fast, stomping hard, in flipflops, boots, high heels.

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• Try different types of clapping: clap your hands softly, quickly and make a pattern for your child to follow. Do the same clapping your thighs or stamping your feet. Tap your fingers. Click your tongue.

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• Invent a special family clap routine for when someone does something really well.