Free Steady Beat Activities

Help your toddler or preschooler keep a steady beat by clapping, patting, and stomping to simple songs and rhymes. Below are some ideas.

Sing or say Pat A Cake. You can do the actual motion, or you could simplify the motions and just rotate between clapping and double high fives with your child.
Sing or say Polly Wolly Doodle. This is a fun one because of all the silly lyrics and tongue twisters! We normally just pat on our knees to the steady beat for this song because of the tricky lyrics.
Sing or say Here We Go Looby Loo. For this song you can skip to the steady beat during the chorus, and move to the motions during the verse.
Sing or say It's Raining. It's Pouring.. You need a rain stick for this song. You can make one out of a paper towel roll filled with rice. It would be closed off by hot gluing scrap fabric on the two ends.
Sing or say The Ants Go Marching. For this song you and your child can march to steady beat and practice counting!
Sing or say the The Hokey Pokey. Do the Hokey Pokey with your child and move to the beat. For example, "Put your one hand in," move your right hand to the beat.

Find some Irish music and a potato. Toss or pass the potato with your child to the steady beat. You can search the internet for free traditional Irish music. Our family likes to search and listen to free Riverdance, which is a theatrical show that consists of mostly traditional Irish music and dance.

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