Play a rhyme game.
Child development opportunities
* To gain better control of touch movements
* To match touch movements to rhyme
* To develop powers of observation
* To have fun How to play
* Explain to the children that they are going to play a rhyme game.
* One child kneels on all fours in the centre of the circle, like a dog or cat, and shuts their eyes.
* The other children stand in a circle around the child.
* One child pats and strokes the back of the child in the middle while saying: Pat the dog Stroke the cat
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