Wash Up, Up, Up! song
Make handwashing a fun and familiar experience for children! Here is an original song based on handwashing procedures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
Lyrics and music © 2020 Malcolm Pittman
Benjamin Futterman: vocals, guitar, audio editing
Ela Ben-Ur: vocals, fiddle
Malcolm Pittman: vocals, banjo @IncorrigibleStringBand
Courtesy of Star Bright Books
Lyrics
Wash up, up, up!
Wash up, up, up!
This is how you wash your hands:
You Wet
Lather
Scrub
Rinse, and
Dry
You wet your hands, you can use cold water
You lather your hands with a squirt of soap
Then you scrub your hands lots of different ways
You scrub the palms, one, two, three
You scrub the backs, one, two, three
You scrub the sides, one, two, three
You scrub the fingers, one, two, three
You scrub the tips, one, two, three
Then you rinse the soap off and dry your hands
And you’ve washed up, up, up!
One more time:
Wash up, up, up!
Wash up, up, up!
This is how you wash your hands:
You Wet
Lather
Scrub
Rinse, and
Dry
Illustration © 2018 by Ying-Hwa Hu
This song is inspired by the book Clean Up, Up, Up!
Clean Up, Up, Up! is written by Ellen Mayer, illustrated by Ying-Hwa Hu, and published by Star Bright Books © 2018. For more information on this early math story that supports spatial-relations learning, click here.
This book is based on work supported in part by TERC under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.