Five Fat Peas (Makaton)

Use your baby’s hand and do the actions. Help them create a fist (‘in a peapod pressed’). Then as ‘one grew, two grew’, touch their fingers and uncurl them.

Finish with a big clap (‘pop’). Slow down and build up the anticipation before you pop!

In a group, try using a piece of Lycra or other stretchy material. Everyone holds onto a piece of the material throughout the rhyme. Get the children to let go of the material and clap their hands when they say ‘pop’!