Ladybug, Ladybug

Getting Ready For the Game

Have the children stand several feet from each other.

How To Play the Action Song
(words in red, action in blue)

Ladybug, ladybug,
(move fingers)
Let me see your crawl,
(crawl slowly on all fours)
Hurry after those harmful bugs
(move quickly on all fours)
But be careful, do not fall!
(fall over)

See The Lady Bug

Sing this song to the tune of "Frere Jacques"...

See the ladybug, see the ladybug.
Watch it crawl, watch it crawl.
See it crawling higher,
See it crawling higher.
Watch it crawl, up the wall.

See the ladybug, see the ladybug.
Watch it crawl, watch it crawl.
See it crawling lower,
See it crawling lower.
Way down low, to my toe.

The original "Frere Jacques" in French...

Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques,
Dormez vous? Dormez vous?
Sonnez les matines,
Sonnez les matines,
Din, din, don! Din, din, don!

The original "Frere Jacques" in English...

Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping?
Brother John? Brother John?
Morning bells are ringing,
Morning bells are ringing,
Ding dang dong, Ding dong dong.

Five Little Ladybugs

Show your child your hand and wiggle all your fingers and thumb as you sing this traditional nursery rhyme:

Five little ladybugs climbing up a door
One flew away then there were four

(Bend your thumb into your palm and continue:)
Four little ladybugs sitting on a tree
One flew away then there were three

(Bend a finger into your palm and continue singing, wiggling the remaining fingers:)

Three Little ladybugs landed on a shoe
One flew away then there were two

(Bend a finger into your palm and continue singing, wiggling the remaining fingers:)
Two little ladybugs looking for some fun
One flew away and then there was one

(Bend a finger into your palm and continue singing, wiggling the remaining finger:)
One little ladybug sitting in the sun
She flew away and then there were none

(Then tickle your child and kiss them on the head.)