Songs for Babies Swimming Lessons Pack 2

An information-based course for parents teaching babies and toddlers to swim, and for teachers seeking more songs, not for swim school owners, with notes on regulations and qualifications.

Learn water entry and exit for babies, select swim lesson equipment, and apply holds for toddlers, while exploring pediatrician and psychologist insights on physical and mental development, plus bonding songs.

Use orange dot songs as welcome or goodbye cues to reinforce consistent conditioning for babies and toddlers during swimming lessons, repeating the full verse at the end for bye-bye exit.

Learn safe techniques for entering and exiting the water with a fragile baby, including taking your time, maintaining balance, using a ladder or mat, and considering parental patience.

Learn to safely enter and exit the water using a ladder while holding the baby, taking time, maintaining balance, and using one step at a time.

Demonstrates safe entry and exit with one parent and one baby using a mat or pool deck, reversing the process to leave water as the baby waits and follows instructions.

Learn a two-adult, safe entry and exit method for babies, where a parent hands the infant to the instructor and both work to keep the baby calm and secure.

Learn how to hold babies during the swim, matching each song and activity to a specific hold, with video guidance and voiceover explaining important details.

Demonstrates a baby sitting on a parent's leg to ease transitions between activities, while caregivers are guided on clearly explaining the next song or activity and how to perform it.

Learn the hip hold, a resting position for babies and parents that supports comfort while listening for instructions, saving energy for the rest of the class.

Master the head on the shoulder hold, a basic back hold for beginners that rests the head on a parent's shoulder while the back is supported, with activities and songs.

Demonstrate the face-to-face hold by supporting babies from the armpits with arms and legs free, while maintaining eye contact to guide buoyancy as they float.

Master the comfortable hold for baby swimming: support the bottom with one hand and secure the belly with the other, from armpit to chest, for babies facing the glass.

Advance from the basic back hold to the advanced back hold by extending both arms to cradle the baby as they lay back, with head on your arms, during flotation.

Learn the side hold, a foundational baby and toddler swimming grip used during toy chasing and songs, with parents supporting chest to back for comfort and freedom of movement.

Explore swimming equipment and teaching aids, learn their uses, colors, and shapes, and how to use them to make lessons fun while avoiding overreliance, false confidence, and silent drowning risks.

Explore classical conditioning and its relation to water conditioning, with insights drawn from Crash Course psychology resources on YouTube.

Explore water conditioning, a form of classical conditioning using cues such as one, two, three, go and ready, steady, go to trigger eye closing and breath holding around the head.

Start with this is the way as a versatile orange dot song for welcome, activity, or goodbye in baby swimming lessons, teaching hand slashes, leg kicks, and blowing bubbles.

Explore the hokey pokey with babies and toddlers in a parent-led activity that emphasizes turning around and shaking it all about, as part of swimming lessons.

Present the Ncdc spider song as a swimming lesson activity using a mat to guide babies and toddlers from crawling to walking, with parent-assisted returns and toys.

Row Row Row Your Boat offers a slow, relaxing segment for babies and toddlers and parents between active songs, with water conditioning signs to keep heads above water.

Explore water conditioning science through the teddy bear song, helping toddlers and parents relax between rapid songs while deciding when it is safe to go under water based on signs.

Open them, shut them, a popular song for babies and toddlers with hand movements, splashes, and blowing bubbles, performed with parents.

Teach babies and toddlers the crocodile song to guide cue-based water entry, using back-of-hand gestures and water-conditioning signs to decide head under or stay out.

Explore the 'I am a little starfish' song to teach babies and toddlers back and front flotation through parent-assisted flips, emphasizing safe transitions from front to back.

Use the song twinkle twinkle little star to teach babies and toddlers back flotation, with a partner or teacher using a mirror or toys to distract and encourage looking up.