“Baker’s Playhouse” might be one of the oldest rhymes in the English language. Parents or caregivers use this specific type of songs to further preschoolers educational level. Most list of kids songs, or rhymes come from an educational website where preschoolers use a collection activities to developed other learning cues. In cases like this one, the rhyme of Pat-a-Cake originated in a Thomas D’Urfey’s play known as, The Campaigners from 1698. A few years later after the play, the same pat a cake rhyme came across in a Mother Goose tune in 1765. Whether the rhyme was used in two different versions, they both had the same meaning they. It consists of a melody of the process of baking bread, from the patting to the baking, to the ingredients, and the oven, etc.
Once this rhyme and the meaning was out there from the Mother Goose, it became a way for early development techniques to be put to use with parents or caregivers of babies through children ages 0-5. By having a child listen and interact with this song, it not only improves their cognitive and motor skills, but as well as their hand-eye coordination, social and verbal development. This rhyme has a hand coordination with the patting of a cake, or bread, so kids can play along with it. A handful of children this age love to play pretend, if not with their parents, with siblings, or with an actual pretend kitchen, pretend pot and pans, or with a cooking set, etc.
This nursery rhyme does a phenomenal job of teaching them just that, that by actually sing along and pretend to make bread, you can actually do that later on with an adult. This is exactly why, if not done so already done so by parents, we suggest they take time to invest in programs like this one to have the ability for their children to listen to these kids songs and rhymes. Some children do assists preschool, but others when they are not in the classroom environment their exposure to other things, are not developed as fast as the ones in daycare. Parents unfortunately nowadays do not always get the chance to stay home with their children, but when they are at home some parents feel their child might be behind compared to others when they do start kindergarten.
By having our children exposed rhymes like this one, other songs, numbers, abc’s, coloring pages, activity songs, etc, improves their child learning ability by 100%. When babies are born, their brain acts like a sponge, anything and everything that they are exposed to especially at this age is automatically engraved in their brain, they will remember it, and when they start talking they began repeated back, that is exactly why it is extremely important for their brains to get exposed to rhymes. In general rhymes like pat a cake expose children to not only have fun, interact, and play with friends, but it opens their mind to so many learning possibilities.