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Originally Posted by Columbine

haha, 「ないない」はかわいいね〜

かわいいよね～。

How about the mums in UK?

like...
"say bye bye to your pooh bear,darling" ?

『プーさん　ないない（しましょうねぇ～）』 in Japanese maybe

'Ta' is used by grownups too as far as I know, so I'm not sure it's baby talk. I sure use it! haha, no one's ever accused me of sounding babyish, so I think you're safe. "fank you" or "sank you" is a baby pronunciation of "thank you".

You know many Japanese say "sank you",
so to you they sound like babies!

Wow, "fank you" sounds quite dangerous doesn't it?!
but I like it.

Dog=doggy/woof-woof
Cat=kitty or pussy-cat or puddy-tat (second one not so popular nowadays!)
Horse= Gee-gee
Cow= Moo-cow
sheep= baa-lambs
bedtime= sleepy-byes or beddy-byes
Banana= 'nana
pajamas= jim-jams or jammies

How cute, thank you !!

How do you pronunce gee-gee? like GG?
Do you grown-ups call Pyjamas "PJ" in UK?

Oh I remeber in Australia,
Kangaroo = roo
toilet= loo
koala= koala bear (even koalas arent bears at all)

Then some which were probably unique to my house/local area:
Jam sandwich: Jammy sams
Tortoise= Tor-tor (my grandmother had three!)
knobbly= knucky
little= diddle
hands= nans (when I was little) or nies (which was my sister's word for it. We think it might have come from ナイジェリア語, cause my family lived out there for a while and my sister started to pick it up.）
Bird= ga-ga (definitely came from ナイジェリア語)
Stork/crane= "ga-ga de knucky knees" A bird with knobbly knees!

Interesting!
I like
little=diddle
and it happens when I've got stuffed nose.

Our family had our original verb
『ガッチャンする』
we used to say like...
『ＸＸは　ガッチャンするだけでいいからね～　すぐで かけるから～』
『ガッチャンしておいてよ～　ＸＸが風で開いちゃうじ ゃ～ん』
Can you guess?

I used to chant:
Eenie Meenie Miney Moe
Catch a rabbit by the toe,
if he hollars let him go,
eenie meenie miney moe.
So exactly the same except I had rabbits, not tigers for some reason. My cousins used 'tiger' though. We also used to use;

"Ip dip dip, my little ship,
sailing on the water,
like a cup and saucer,
O.U.T spells 'out'!"

Oh rabbits hollar too?
Ip dip dip one chants like Eenie Menie?

and one that makes even less sense:

"ibble-obble black bobble,
ibble-obble out,
turn the dirty dish-cloth inside-out
mother doesn't like it,
turn it back in,
ibble-obble black bobble
ibble-obble OUT!"

yeah mothers wouldn't like it

and a naughty one:
"Mickey-mouse in his house,
pulling down his trousers,
quick mum, smack his bum,
what colour did it turn?"
then someone would shout "blue" or something, and you'd count round
"B. L. U. E" and whoever was the last letter was 'out'.

mmm my students will love it!
They love using bad and naughty words,
they are learning new ones like every day at their kinder
and every week they want to tell me all that.

I remember a naughty one when I was a elementary school kid!
Boys say "パン　２　Ｏ　みえ!" when they saw girl's underpants!
They had some hand gesture too.
clap your hands once
show your pointer and middle finger
make a circle with your thumb and pointer
put your hand (horizontal) on your forehead

and of course, the 'potato' rhyme where everyone holds up two fists and someone 'counts' by bumping the fists going round the circle chanting,
"one potato, two potato,
three potato, four,
five potato, six potato,
seven potato more,
one big black potato splits in HALF!" and on 'half', the person whose fist is bumped gets to put that hand down behind their back. If you get both hands out, then you're safe.

I will do this with my students after the holidays!
Thanks!

we just say "you're It".

thanks, cos I saw a book written by a Japanese English teacher who lives in Canada, she said " you are the it"
but as long as I remember the kids were saying "you are it!" in Australia.
Do you call it play tag or tig?