Action Songs for Babies

Music time with your baby teaches more than you think. Take time with these baby songs each day and watch your baby grow.

Here are our favorite action songs for babies that your baby will fall in love with for hours of fun and developmental growth.

Let’s explore how to add these baby action songs into your baby’s routine at home.

Action Songs for Babies

Baby Songs

There are so many fun songs for babies out there but I bet it’s been years since you’ve sung them.

As a new parent, these baby songs listed below are some of my favorites.

Part of what makes them my favorite is that they are also moving parts of their bodies as you sing with them. Combining both auditory skills and movement skills with your baby songs involves different parts of their brain.

A big win in my books is when I can stimulate growth in various parts of my baby’s development.

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Clap Clap Clap Your Hands!

My daughter learned to clap recently and now she’s clapping at everything she does. She even claps when she successfully falls down from standing, too funny. It made me stop and think about how much we’ve been modeling for her how to clap and what fun it can be to celebrate the little things.

Of course, the teacher in me was spinning ideas of all the benefits she’s learning from learning songs with Mommy. Plus now we can add instruments like these baby instruments on Amazon to our music fun too.

Most importantly singing with your children creates such a special bond between you and your little one.

Skills to Develop during Music Time for Babies

Builds language development
Allows for self-expression
Learning about body parts
Increases listening skills and opportunities to follow directions
Builds social awareness
Increases attention span
Teaches order and sequence
Builds dexterity and muscle control

I hope that you’ll take time each day to sing with your baby!
Music is such a gift in the life of a child.

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Action Songs for Babies

Here are some fun ACTION songs we’ve been singing for our baby songs.

Clap Clap Clap Your Hands

Clap clap clap your hands
Clap your hands together
Clap clap clap your hands
Clap your hands together.

TIP: You can easily substitute clap into any action word like stomp, jump tap wiggle and change hands to a different body part.

We like to sing this version as I lift her up in the air too.

Jump jump jump up high
Jump way up in the sky
Jump jump jump up high
Jump way up in the sky

LISTEN TO THE SONG

If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!

TIP: You can change clap to any action word too! (Shake, wave, snap, reach up high etc.)

LISTEN TO THE SONG

The Merry Goes ‘Round by Jewel

The Baby Hokey Pokey

You put your arms up
You put your arms down
You put your arms up
And you wave them all around
You tickle, tickle, tickle
And you wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

The baby hokey pokey is fun!

You put your legs up
You put your legs down
You put your legs up
And you wave them all around
You tickle, tickle, tickle
And you wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

The baby hokey pokey is fun!

You put your baby up
You put your baby down
You put your baby up
And you wave her all around
You tickle, tickle, tickle
And you wiggle, wiggle, wiggle

The baby hokey pokey is fun!

TIP: This song teaching about all body parts with your baby, get creative!

LISTEN TO THIS SONG

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