Genre
Stories in rhyme
Subject
Body movement activities for children
Hand
Waving

This book shows different ways our hands work. In the book is demonstrates how our hands can grab, touch, feel things, and more. This is great for children to understand how many things our hands are capable of doing. This book is great for children ages 1-4 years old. ( )

A rhyming book with charismatic photos hands can is ideal for encouraging little ones to explore their world creating hands on experiences. ( )

Hands can hold things.
Hands can mold things.
Hands can catch
and hands can throw.

Hands can do much more, of course — wave hello and goodbye, play peekaboo, touch things, clap, even tie a shoe. For the very young, hands are a never-ending source of discovery and a means of mastery in an ever-unfolding world. With singsong rhythm, simple design, and alluring color photos of toddlers, Hands Can invites the littlest readers to discover the many things hands can do. (amazon.com)

In realistic photographs, a multicultural group of children (toddlers to grade schoolers) demonstrates the variety of things that hands can do. The gentle rhyme highlights opposites (high and low, hello and good-bye, catch and throw) and other wonderful word pairs (clap and sing, mix and fix). Every page offers an opportunity for caregivers to interact with babies or toddlers to move: waving, hugging, playing peek-a-boo, and more.

Song pairings: "Hands are for clapping" by Jim Gill