While saying a beloved children's nursing rhyme, you can play with your fingers and make a church with a steeple and people inside.The finger church has been made by children for centuries.
Step 1: Face your hands together.
With your palms turned inward, hold your hands an inch apart, with your fingers facing upward.The church building will be created by the hands and fingers.At this stage, your thumbs should point upward.The doors of the church will eventually be created.Put your fingers together.Your fingers should be facing downward.The only fingers not locked together are your thumbs.
Step 2: Put your thumbs together.
The thumbs should be facing each other.The door of the church was created by them.Press your palms together.As you press them together, keep your thumbs straight.The other fingers should be locked together.The top of your hands form the roof of the church.There should be no space between your thumbs.The first part of the rhyme is "Here is the church."
Step 3: Point the index fingers up.
At first, point them towards the sky.The fingers on the index were locked together.They will build a steeple.Press the pads of both fingers together.Your fingers should remain locked if you keep your thumbs pressed together in a vertical line.When you press the pads of your fingers together, they should form a triangle with a point at the top.The second part of the rhyme is, "Here is the steeple." Some historians believe that steeples symbolize Christians' desire to lift their hearts and minds up toward heaven.
Step 4: You can open your thumbs.
Swing your thumbs apart while holding your index fingers together.Your thumbs are the door of the church, so opening them emulates opening the doors.As you do this, keep your fingers locked.To see the locked fingers in your hands, tilt your wrists upward.Your fingers will be lined up so that they look like the people in the church.
Step 5: The fingers were wiggled.
The people are revealed when you open the thumb doors.Children like to wriggle their fingers to show that people are moving inside the church.You are ready to say the final part of the rhyme: "open the doors and see all the people."
Step 6: The last part of the rhyme should be said.
The last part of the nursery rhyme says, "Here's the parson going upstairs."A member of the clergy is called a parson.You can add the words at the end.If you do, put your hands together in prayer.The fingers point toward the sky when you press both hands together.The rhyme is a good way for children to start praying.The hands are supposed to represent praying.The last line and prayer hands can be dropped if you are secular.
Step 7: Master the rhyme.
If you want to make a church with your fingers, make sure you say the rhyme with the gestures.The rhyme goes, "Here is the church."The steeple is visible.You can open the doors and see all the people.There is a parson going upstairs.A lot of people left the last two lines off.It is up to you.Many children don't know that a leader of the church is called a parson."Close the doors and let them pray" is a way to end the rhyme.With your pinkies touching, open your hands all the way.They have all gone away if you open the doors.It's as if the parishioners have vanished, so it will surprise and thrill small children.
Step 8: You can learn the rhyme's history.
Mother goose has a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.Children love making a church out of their hands.It is a good way to improve coordination.English churches with their steeples can be seen in the skyline of major European cities.The oldest church steeples are in France on the 12th century Chartres Cathedral.hyming is a good way for children to master patterns of speech.
Step 9: Go to the barnyard instead.
You can use the same finger gestures to open a barn and show the animals inside.The rhyme is "Here's the barn".Open it wide.The animals hide inside.There are horses and cows.They are drinking and eating.They will stay here until the night turns into the day.They will all leave when we open the doors.They eat grass and hay in the pasture.You could shorten the rhyme and simply say: "Here is the barn."Open it wide.The animals hide inside.The horses and cows are here.