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Pattycake Baby Game

The only cake you can share with baby that won't show up on your thighs.
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DevaD

Old-fashioned fun!
Your hands
Your kid's hands
The words to the old English nursery rhyme (below)
1 As you say the rhyme, clap your hands together and then alternately clap your hands with your kids'.

2 First line: Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

3 Second line: Bake me a cake as fast as you can.

4 Third line: Pat it and roll it and mark it with "B" (or you can use your kid's first initial and mark it with a "R" for Rosie, for example.)

5 Fourth line: And put it in the oven for Baby and me. (Or, if you went the first initial route, say "Rosie and me."

You can play this with your baby—it's OK if she doesn't get the whole "alternating" clapping thing. She'll love it anyway!

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corwelch
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6/29/2009 - 11:31AM
Report Abuse 		I grew up with that nursery rhyme. I learned it the way said above but then my husband's parents tried teaching it to my kids this way Pat-a-cake Pat-a-cake Baker's man BAke me a cake as fast as you can Roll em up Roll em and put em in the pan Personally - I like the original one!!


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