Bean Bag Alphabet Rag

Learning the Alphabet With Bean Bags
Hap Palmer

This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can A Cherry Pie Wave Goodbye?

Note:
The A-H extended response version is ideal for preschool children. It focuses on just the first 8 letters of the alphabet. It is also an ideal lead up activity to the complete A - Z version of this song: 5. Bean Bag Alphabet Rag.

Skills and Concepts:
- Recognize letters of the alphabet
- Master initial consonant sounds
- Identify body parts
- Improve motor skills

Setting:
Stand in front of your seat or in open area

Activity:
Get a bean bag, or put beans inside an old sock and move along with the "Bean Bag Alphabet Rag."

A - Arm, put it on your arm
B - Back, put it on your back
C - Catch, throw the bag and catch
D - Drop, drop the bag and dance
With the Bean Bag Alphabet Rag

E - Ear, put it on your ear
F - Foot, let it fall to your foot

G - Grab, grab and grip the bag
H - Hop, hold it on your head and hop
With the Bean Bag Alphabet Rag

I - Ice, imagine it's made of ice
J - Jump, jiggle the bag and jump
K - Keep, keep it on your knee
L - Leg, lift it with your leg
With the Bean Bag Alphabet Rag

M - March, N - Neck, put it on your neck and march

O - Off, let it ooze off your neck
P - Pat, gently pat the bag
Q - Quick, quickly make it quiver
R - Run, run around the bag
With the Bean Bag Alphabet Rag

S - Slide, slide it up your side
T - Toes, tap it on top of your toes
U - Under, undulate under the bag
V - Vibrate, vibrate very fast
With the Bean Bag Alphabet Rag

W - Waist, wipe it on your waist
X - X-ray, look through it with X-ray vision
Y - You, you make something up
Z - Zoom, zoom around the bag
With the Bean Bag Alphabet Rag