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I Hiv a Little Spider

Song type: Actions, Active, Finger play, Rhymes, Tickling
Language: Scots
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, 3-5, Toddler

How to share this song with babies

Tickle babies with your spider fingers as you creep up their shoulder, chin, nose and head!

How to share this song with toddlers

You can do the actions on one hand, then repeat it and do the actions on the other hand.

How to share this song with 3 to 5-year olds

This is lovely as a bedtime rhyme, with the “Night, night” ending. Perhaps your wee one can sing the song or say the rhyme and tickle you?

I Hiv a Little Spider lyrics

I hiv a little spider

I’m affa fond o’ hem

He rins up tae ma shooder

Then jumps up tae ma chin

He hops on tae ma nose

And rins on tae ma heid

An fin he’s affa affa tired he rins bak in tae bed, night night!