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Shooglie Wooglie

Song type: Actions, Active
Language: Scots
Genre: Scots
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, Children, Pre-school, Toddler
Topics: Bookbug, Scots

How to use this song with babies

Try this as a lap song. Sit your baby on your lap facing you, and gently bounce them as you sing, doing the actions with them. Or get up and have a boogie!

How to use this song with toddlers

Join in with your child. They will copy what you do if they are unsure. They will love singing and dancing with you.

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

See if you can do the verses for both arms and legs. Don’t forget to try the whole body (yer hale sel’).

Song and rhyme words

Ye pit yer richt airm in,

Yer richt arm oot,

In, oot, in, oot

Shak it aw aboot.

Ye dae the Shooglie Wooglie

And ye birl aroon.

That’s whit it’s aw aboot – AYE!

Aw the Shooglie Wooglie Wooglie.

Aw the Shooglie Wooglie Wooglie.

Aw the Shooglie Wooglie Wooglie.

That’s whit it’s aw aboot – AYE!

(keep going and repeat with your left airm (arm), shank (leg), elba (elbow), haun (hand), hurdie (hip), fit (foot) and yer haill sel (whole self)!

Words by and reproduced with kind permission of Matthew Fitt.

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