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Right hand, left hand

Help children differentiate between right and left through a fun game. Child development opportunities

Child development opportunities

* To learn a rhyme with matching actions.

* To find a useful way to remember left and right.

* To use a rhyme to find out how to learn-to-learn and self-correct.

* To find out that self-achievement can be fun.

How to play

* Explain that the children are going to say a rhyme that uses both right and left hands. The aim is to self-correct until their own actions match the words of the rhyme exactly. There is no winner.

* Ask the children to sit or stand in a line facing you.

* Stand or sit in front of the children with your back to them, so that your right and left sides are the same as theirs.

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