Before starting the song hand out a finger light to each child and wait until they have them on their fingers. The first time this takes a few minutes,but it gets faster as they learn how to do it. To teach the hand actions the first time just sing through the song once having the children watch you and then have them join you on the second time through. It's easy and the children pick up on the actions quickly. I would suggest teaching this song during a review or activity week before you need to use it for the first time. That way you don't have to take a lot of time teaching the song while the birthday person is waiting to be sang to.
You can see my actions in the video below. It's a little hard to see, but I do have a red finger light on my right hand. At the end of the song while all of the children have their candles (hands with finger light) in the air have the birthday person give a big blow as if they are blowing out all the birthday candles on a cake. Once they "blow" them out the children put their hands down.
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