Why fingerplays?

Fingerplays are texts that an adult recites and are accompanied by movement – playing with a child’s fingers, hands, feet, tickling and stroking, rocking a child on their knees or feet. Usually, the recitation of the verses starts in the second half of the first year, when the child begins to understand the meaning of the text and is able to sit on your lap.

Vaira Vike Freiberga says: “Young children love the attention of adults when they play with them, using rhythmic movements, humming, waving, or playing with their fingers or toes. The These verses should be repeated over and over again, as long as the child expects them and laughs at them. Then he will remember them until he has children of his own to play with.”