VOLUNTEER TRYING TO TEACH: Handwashing

[For handwashing and toothbrushing, we invested in a purple plastic bucket with a tub. In Malawi, you could buy them in every plastic store.]

6 Steps of handwashing

with gestures!

1) Palm to palm

2) Back of hands

3) Thumbs –

another thumb

4) Wrists –

another wrist

5) Spaces between fingers

6) Aaaand?! (Children know the answer)

Fingernails! (Chichewa: Zikhadabo!)

tune: Wheels on the bus

with gestures!

The soap on our hands goes squirt squart squirt (soap your hands)

squirt squart squirt

The soap on our hands goes squirt squart squirt

As we wash our hands!

The germs on our hands go ieh ieh ieh (shrug disgusted your shoulders)

ieh ieh ieh

The germs on our hands go ieh ieh ieh

As we wash our hands!

The water on our hands goes swish swash swish (wipe your hands)

swish swash swish

The water on our hands goes swish swash swish

As we wash our hands!

The towel on our hands goes rub dub dub (clap your hands turning them up and down)

rub dub dub

The towel on our hands goes rub dub dub

As we wash our hands!

(stretch your hands to the front, inside the circle so that everone can see them)

Look, our hands are squeeky clean

squeeky clean, squeeky clean

Look, our hands are squeeky clean

Because we washed our hands!