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Playsongs Playtime

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Welcome to Playsongs Playtime, a joyous five minutes of guided interactive play with your baby or toddler. Each episode introduces one short playrhyme and one short playsong, and guides you through playing with them - right now in the moment - or tucked away and played again and again later. Our aim is to bring playsongs and playrhymes to life for you and your little one - so you can enjoy the participatory action to the full. Babies and toddlers have chuckled and laughed through action play with

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6:10

20. Lullaby Horses for Sleepy Babies

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/11/26

Snuggle your baby or toddler close, while you softly lull them into sleepiness with our foot-patting rhyme, Shoe a Little Horse. Then sing or hum them to sleep with the hauntingly beautiful old lullaby, All the Pretty Little Horses. Lullabies are as much a comfort for ourselves, as they are for our little ones. On one of those sleep-deprived nights, we can soothe ourselves through the desperate stretches of wakefulness, clock aware, calculating how much time we might just manage to sleep ourselves

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6:50

19. Rocking the Golden Boat Merrily Down the Stream

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/11/19

We’re rocking you and your little one over the silvery sea in our playrhyme, The Golden Boat, and with our playsong, Rock Rock Rock my Boat. Both games support that stage in a little baby’s development, when they’re preparing themselves to manage that rollover from lying on their back to lying on their front. And these games work in different ways for your bigger baby or toddler just as enjoyably. We’ll show you how. So find a comfy, warm bit of floor to sit on, join hands and rock rock

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6:53

18. Splish Splash Splosh

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/11/12

Pop a pretend soap bubble on baby’s nose with our playrhyme, Bubble, and for the serious business of getting baby bathed, we have our playsong, Splish Splash Splosh, in this episode of Playsongs Playtime. Our 5-minute guided interactive play session is a perfect companion to a pretend bath or a real bath. So here’s the soap to wash your hands, now blow a big bubble and see where it lands! Pop!

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9:12

17. A Spoonful of Sweet Potatoes

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/11/05

We’ve a delicious musical menu of interactive play for you and your baby or toddler in this episode of Playsongs Playtime. For a tempting starter we have our playrhyme, Spoons, and for our main course we have our playsong, Sweet Potatoes. This is mealtime fun you can have together even before your baby’s weaned. No time too soon to tap a tune on a spoon. Our 5-minute guided play session is a perfect takeaway of feeding games for you and your little one, whether they’re too little to hold a spoon

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10:46

16. Dance Off to the Park with Grandpa, and Go Round...

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/10/29

We're going Off to the Park with Grandpa – dancing your baby or toddler all the way. And before you catch your breath, we'll whirl you both off again with Sally go Round the Sun. Hold hands with your toddler to support their free-styling footwork. Dandle a bigger baby on your knee, or dance with your baby supported against your shoulder, where they can feel the beat through you. Parks, birthday picnics, and a bunch or friends are great for these two dances, but indoors is just as good for dancing

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6:15

15. Walk Tall and Fly High with One to Make Ready and...

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/10/15

These two out-and-about leg walkers are especially good for reviving a tired toddler, and you can just as easily play them indoors with a baby on your knee. Swing a toddler up and along between two grown ups with One to Make Ready. Hold your toddler’s hand as they tight-rope their way along a wall with Miss Mary Mac. We’ll show you how they work just as well for your baby. No walls, horses, elephants, or wings required ~ just five minutes free for some happy interactive play in this episode of

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7:48

14. Jelly on the Plate and One Two Three A-leary:...

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/10/15

We’ve borrowed two playground games, Jelly on the Plate, and One Two Three A-leary, to give you and your baby or toddler an episode brim full of knee-bouncing fun. The outdoor skipping and bouncing tricks we played as kids with these two games, turn themselves nicely into indoor thrills for your little one, bouncing on your knee. No skipping ropes required. Just you and your little one and five minutes free to take them onto your lap for some happy interactive play in this episode of Playsongs

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8:25

13. The daring ups and downs of Five Little Froggies...

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/10/08

Roll up, roll up with your baby or toddler for a thrill-filled five minutes of ups and downs and flying around in this episode of Playsongs Playtime. Our playrhyme, Bumblebees, has your little one flying up in the breeze, and our playsong, Five Little Froggies, has them perilously leaping high and low, to and fro. Lots of up and down actions and lifts with up and down words and sounds. Dance the teeniest tiny ones in your arms, bounce a bigger baby high and low on your knee, or join in with your

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10:00

12. Say Hello to Tommy Thumb

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/10/01

Hands up! We’ve got five people to introduce to you and your baby or toddler with our playrhyme, Tommy Thumb. It’s a very old fingerplay with a very big handful of play-learning to offer - it’s about having a conversation, it’s about taking turns, it’s about saying hello, it’s about finger awareness, and as your little one grows, it’s about developing finger dexterity and coordination. And we'd also like to introduce you to our playsong, Say Hello, which can turn its hand to beeping noses, patting

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7:25

1. A Teddy, a Snail and a Mouse, and a Search for...

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/09/24

Get ready for giggles and gentle play! The first episode of our second series begins with the beloved classic Round and Round the Garden – a tickling game that's been delighting babies and toddlers since teddies began. Watch your little one's face light up as the anticipation builds with each circle around their palm before that magical tickle moment arrives!Then we'll slow things down (and speed things up!) with Slowly Slowly Quickly Quickly, featuring a creeping snail's gentle journey that

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09:34

10. Croons and Lullabies

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

Hush a bye baby bye hypnotically sways you and your baby or toddler into a soothing calm, perfect for you both, then Souallé takes over to rock you both into peaceful dreams.

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07:20

9. Dances and Surprises

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

Two little bats (you and your baby or toddler) go swooping and looping then 'they both fall asleep hanging upside down'. (Securely held of course!) Then we all go hopping, jumping, and bumping with Bob and the Frog.

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07:17

8. Pony Trotters

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

Pony trotting knee riders are great games for bigger babies and toddlers and lovely for babes-in-arms held securely against you as you lightly trot on the spot.

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07:08

7. Sounds and Soundmakers

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

A playrhyme and a playsong exploring some of those first sounds that we pick out of the jumble and play with together - whether travelling by when we're out and about or cosily sharing a noisy picture book together.

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07:40

6. Leg Walkers

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

We’ve got two leg walkers for you, both of them featuring daft little dogs. One of them leaps off to Dover and the other two are trotting around Wales in sunshine and rain. Great knee-time fun for babies and toddlers.

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06:30

5. Knee Bouncers

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

An old Irish knee bouncer with a surprise slide and three naughty little monkeys bouncing on the bed provide us with five minutes of hilarious, shared knee-time play.

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06:13

4. Jumping Jacks

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

Here are two joyous jumps to give you both a laugh. In the rhyme Jack Be Nimble, there’s a glorious skyward lift. In Jack-in-the-Box, there are whole body actions for toddlers and down and up lifts for a baby.

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05:47

3. Tickle Mice

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

Two little tickle rhymes featuring friendly mice. They're great little teasers to give baby a giggle and instantly distract them from a moment of distress, or to play any moment you're relaxing together.

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08:09

2. Peekaboo!

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/08

Two peekaboo games to play with your baby or toddler. They love the anticipation. They’re listening, they’re waiting, then... Boo! There you are again. Great fun.

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05:25

1. Yours Mine Face Touchers

Playsongs Playtime ·

2025/06/07

Two close up 'yours' 'mine' face touchers to play with your baby or toddler. Face to face fun with Eye Winker, and Cheeky Cheeky Chin. Play now or tuck them away for after baby's feed, when you’re getting your toddler’s face washed, or they're just cuddled up on your knee.

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