Hand Washing Adapted Song Books | Hygiene Life Skills | SLP SPED Autism Music
Product Description
These Hand Washing Adapted Song Books, "Wash! Wash! Wash!" and "This Is How We Wash Our Hands," teach students WHEN and HOW to wash their hands through fun, interactive songs and chants. A hygiene and life skills resource that builds language, beginning reading, AND functional self-care routines — set to familiar, easy-to-sing tunes.
🧼 Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting vocabulary, sequencing, following directions, and music-supported language goals
- Special Education teachers building hygiene, life skills, and self-care routines
- Autism classrooms working on hygiene routines and functional independence
- Occupational Therapists working on self-care, ADLs (activities of daily living), and hand-washing sequence
- Music Therapists building song-based language and life skills lessons
- ABA therapists running discrete trial life skills and sequencing programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers
- School Nurses and health teachers
- Homeschool families with young learners
🚿 What's Included — 2 Adapted Song Books:
Book 1: Wash! Wash! Wash!
- Teaches WHEN to wash hands (appropriate times)
- Sung to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Interactive matching activities
Book 2: This Is How We Wash Our Hands
- An adapted book chant teaching the STEPS / proper hand-washing technique
- Sequential hand-washing routine (wet, soap, scrub, rinse, dry)
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Hygiene and hand-washing routines, life skills / self-care, activities of daily living (ADLs), sequencing (steps of hand washing), when vs. how concepts, health and germ vocabulary, beginning reading, listening comprehension, sing-along participation, following directions, expressive and receptive language, and fine motor skills.
Sample Text (Wash! Wash! Wash!):
"Wash! Wash! Wash your hands!
Wash them every day!
Squirt the soap between your hands.
Scrub the germs away!"
Sample Text (This Is How We Wash Our Hands):
"This is how we wash our hands to get them really clean.
First we get them nice and wet — step one in our routine.
Next we get two squirts of soap to keep the germs at bay.
Then we rub, rub, rub our hands and scrub those germs away!"
How to Use:
In a small group, the teacher or therapist sings and moves through the pages while students sing along and learn when and how to wash their hands. At the end, students identify when and how they should wash. Use This Is How We Wash Our Hands as a step-by-step routine chant during actual hand-washing. Independent learners can read the books and complete the matching activities at a literacy center or workstation.
🧴 Ways to Use:
- Hygiene and life skills lessons
- Self-care and ADL (activities of daily living) routines
- Hand-washing routine support (post by the sink!)
- Speech therapy sequencing and vocabulary sessions
- Music therapy language and life skills sessions
- OT self-care and ADL sessions
- Health and germ-awareness units
- Back to school routines (establishing hygiene habits)
- Cold and flu season hygiene instruction
- Independent work systems (TEACCH)
- Circle time and morning meeting
- Take-home and tele-therapy practice
If your students enjoy my Adapted Song Books, there are many more in my collection. Please see the complete collection below:
Complete Adapted Books Collection
To see details about the best-value, Adapted Song Books Bundle please see the link below:
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