Help with PECS

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So we started teaching my 2 year old son PECS 3 days ago, he's already getting it. He can discriminate between about 5 pictures right now. I've been making my own by printing pictures and labeling them at the bottom. The thing is there are a lot of people games we play with him that he really enjoys, but I can't figure out how to make a picture for them. He likes when we sing "if you're happy and you know it" and he'll clap along, and he enjoys "soft road, bumpy road" and he likes when we pick him up and dance with him in our arms to music. I can't for the life of me figure out what picture to use for these games, especially the dancing since it just looks like we're carrying him when we do it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! He doesn't speak at all, the only one of his activities he can initiate is the dancing, but I'd like to teach him how to do it without dragging us to the computer and putting our hand on the mouse.

If you are playing the music on the computer why not just a picture of the computer screen with whatever program you use running?

I like Wreck-Gar's suggestion, as it's the initiating behavior for the whole thing. Is there an icon on the computer?

If that doesn't work, can you have somebody follow you around with a camera when you're engaging in these activities, and take a whole bunch of pictures until you find one (or even a series) that expresses clearly which activity it is? I could see a series of pictures for "If you're Happy" involving the various actions: clapping hands, touching nose, etc.

We're often playing songs on YouTube, but we also watch short videos on there, so just the computer alone wouldn't work. For the videos I took pictures of the beginning. But I love the idea of a series of pictures to get the idea across. I was thinking if I took a picture of the computer and then put it beside a picture of him in our arms dancing that would really make the concept easier for him. Thanks do much you guys! I had never thought of a series of pictures for a single idea, that's really brilliant.