Fingerplay not only entertains the
kids but also plays an important role in kids' development. Introduce
fingerplay songs to preschoolers as it helps them in developing
language and listening skills, enhancing motor skills and improving
social skills. There are lots of fingerplay songs, some familiar and
some unpopular. Do fingerplay while chanting the rhymes, it is a
great way to build language as new words are added to kids'
vocabulary.
Your kids will light up as they sing their favorite nursery rhymes,
accompanied by fingerplay. Let's learn about some more benefits of
fingerplay -
Boost learning skills
Fingerplay songs foster memorizing the information and enhances the
ability to recall what has been learned. Action songs develop
children's learning skills as they listen and watch the actions. So,
kids grasp the information visually, musically and verbally as well.
Isn't that great?
Develop
fine and gross motor skills
Children
use their fingers, hands, legs, head and other body parts to do
fingreplay and perform actions while enchanting the nursery rhymes.
The controlled actions help the kids and preschooler to control body
and mind movement.
Improve hand-eye coordination
Through fingerplay and kids' action rhymes, children can learn to
coordinate their hands and fingers and also improve hand-eye
coordination.
Develop in listening skills
Kids will carefully follow and listen to their teacher or parents,
who are teaching them the action or fingerplay songs. This help
preschoolers and children to develop listening skills so that they
can follow the directions and perform actions.
Add new words to kids' vocabulary
Fingerplay songs not only boost the language skills but also improves
their vocabulary. As they sing the rhymes, they learn new words and
at time manipulate words and songs. Singing nursery rhymes is truly a
fun musical way to reinforce vocabulary and understand meaning of
words as they perform actions. 
