Lavender Lane

Old favourites from

my childhood

A-H   I-R   S-Z

List at the bottom of page

 
 

POETRY PLEASE

Poems + action and other rhymes for children

Snip, snap crocodile A-K

Snip, snap crocodile L-S

Snip, snap T Snip, snap U-Z

 

Lists at the bottom of pages.

 

Count away

Nursery number favourites

To 3  To 3T-Z

To 5 A-F  To 5 F  To 5 G-Z

To 10 A-N To 10 O-Z To 100

Full lists at the bottom of page.

 
 

Sing a song of seasons

Songs for Christmas/Thanksgiving

A-E 📦 F-N 🔔O-S🔔 T-Z 🎅

Winter songs A – I  J – O..P- Z

Spring songs A-C D-H I-M P-S T-Z

Summer songs  A-H  I-S  T-Z

Full lists at the bottom of page.

Playground and outside games

Follow-my-leader and other games 1

Follow-my-leader and other games 2

 
 

Singing games for children

A treasury of singing games, songs, poems and rhymes

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Songs from other lands are accompanied by singable English translations.

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Autumn Leaves

A treasury of games and songs

More action songs A-C YouT

A-dancing we will go

A jump, a jump, a jump

A ram sam sam

All the little ducks turn upside down

As swift as a swallow

Baby bumble bee

Baby ducks

Birthay months

Bobbing up and down like this

Bow to your partner

Build it up

Can you walk on two legs?

Can you wiggle like a worm?

Caterpillar, bye-bye

Chee chee chaw / Singin’ in the rain

Clap your hands and wiggle your fingers

Clap your hands with me

Climb, climb up Sunshine Mountain

Cuddly koalas

More action songs D-H YouT

Do, do pity my case

Do your ears hang low?

Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky

Down is the Earth

Everybody do this

Fire down below

Fly, fly, fly

Fairies’ marching song

Fly, little birdie, fly

Fooba Wooba John

Four white horses

Gilly gilly gilly good morning

Good morning dear Earth

Grab that spider, tiger

Hardy sailors all

Have you seen the little ducks?

Head and shoulders, knees and toes

Head, shoulders, baby

Head, shoulders, knees and toes

How do you do ?

 

 
 

Sunshine pie

Songs written by Dany Rosevear

Australian originals YouT

An Australian animal alphabet

(Tread lightly on the Earth my friend)

Did you ever see a kangaroo?

Grandma saw a possum

Great big boomers

If you want to see a wallaby

Inky pinky pumpkin pie

Kevin the Crow

The sea sings to me

Whales can’t ride a bike

Who wants an octopus cuddle?

With Wynken, Blynken and Nod

Down the garden path YouT

Bees, knees and thrushes ankles

Busy little bees

Can you step, can you hop?

Georgina’s garden

Good evening, hungry hedgehog

Here comes the little centipede

Here comes trouble!

If a bee is buzzing round you

Little sparrow

Look up, look down

Rob Webb and the cobweb

Snails lunch

The yellow digger

How are you today? YouT

A grumpy song

A hand washing song

 “Atchoo, atchoo!” sneezed the zebra

Don’t put me in the bath ma!

Get moving penguin

Go hug a tree

Good morning, good morning

I can jump in stinky cheese

Peppermint toothpaste

Stomping on a spider

The tree in my garden

Number songs YouT

Can you count?

Five snow angels

Seven little crocodiles

Going down to Devon

Ants in their pants

Don’t wake the dinosaurs!

Dragon came to tea

Granny’s got the fleas

The little seal pup

On the farm YouT

Fox went out in the pale moonlight

Owl hunts*

Whoopsy diddle dum a dandy-o!*

Out and about YouT

A big sunshine pie

A-galloping we will go

Everywhere they go

Go, granny, go!

Off on a bike ride

Penny roll

Tiddley pom

Sing a song of seasons YouT

Pick up a leaf

Robin-a-bobbin’s present

Six little acorns

Round go the seasons

Tick tock change the clocks

Songs about colour 

A rainbow world of colour

The pink, pink, pink, pink flamingo

Wellies stomp, wellies stamp

Story time YouT

Little Red Riding Hood

Jimbo and Jack

The mermaid and the whale

With Wynken, Blynken and Nod

Wild things 1 YouT

Wild things 2

 

Hop skip

and away we go

The original collection

Creatures great and small YouT

Balancing elephants

Bow wow wow

Brave brave mouse

Shoo fly*

Six little frogs

Harvest time / At the mill YouT

Adam and Eve*

Creep, mousie, creep*

Dingle dangle scarecrow

Hot potato

Jimmy crack corn*

Jolly is the miller

Pick a bale of cotton

Oats and beans and barley

Old Roger is dead

Shake them ’simmons down

The muffin man

Meeting and greeting YouT

Bow Belinda

Dipidu

Here comes a bluebird

Jim along Josie

Jingle at the window

The waves roll high YouT

Bobbing up and down*

Charlie over the ocean*

Four in a boat

The alley-alley-O

Wade in the water YouT

Draw a bucket of water

Floating down the river

Scraping up sand (Shiloh)

Away we go! YouT

Dusty bluebells

Little red wagon

Little black train

My aunt came back

Rig-a-jig-jig

Rise, sugar, rise

Round and round the village

Train is a-comin’

Willowbee

Who are you?! YouT

Grand old Duke of York

Hansel and Gretel’s Dance

I’m a big bright star

I’m a little Dutch child

Old King Glory

Sing a song of sixpence

Sur le pont d‘Avignon

 

 

Away we go

Round and about

It’s a wonderful world YouT

Ali Baba’s farm (Turkish)

Epo i tai tai e

Hello, hello everybody

Mi chacra

Sambelele

The courtyard of my house

Tingalayo

Yat yih sam (Chinese)

Out of Africa

Ah wune kune

Che che koolayYouT

Fatou yo

Funga Alafia YouT

Jambo

Obiswana YouT

Tue tue

Dance around Europe 1 YouT

Ah, my little Augustine (German)

Bear sleeps (Norway Sweden)

Cousin Peter (German)

Dancing ladybirds (Polish)

Little frogs (Swedish)

Ritsch ratsch (Swedish)

Sarasponda (Dutch)

Snail, snail (Polish)

Spring song (German)

The more we get together

Dance around Europe 2 YouT

Amichi Charlie, Charlie

Danse del amics

El Patatuf

Just like the moon

Lundi matin

My clarinet

My father’s garden

Punchinello

Dance around North America 1 YouT

Bonjour mes amis, bonjour

Father Abraham

Mighty pretty motion

Threw it out the window

When ducks get up

Wind, wind sugar baby

Yankee doodle

Dance around North America 2YouT

Boa constrictor

Der glumph!

Elephants have wrinkles

Fire in the mountain

Monkey see, monkey do

Skinamarinky dinky dink

Some folk do

 

 

Away we go

Round and about

Play party songs YouT

Hey, Betty Martin

Here comes Sally

Old brass wagon

Pig in the parlour

Sandy land

Weevily wheat

Afro American songs YouT

All around the kitchen

Here we go zudio

Hop, old squirrel

Little Sally Walker

Mister Rabbit

Oh, watch the stars

Wake me! Shake me!

You gotta sing

Ain’t it great to be crazy YouT

Ain’t it great to be crazy

Doing the monster stomp

Down by the bay

Down in the jungle

It ain’t gonna rain no more

Knees up Mother Brown

Shake those sillies out

She sailed away

Playground favourites YouT

Doctor Dingle, Doctor Jingle

Down by the river

Knees up Mary Muffet

Sally go round the sun

We are going to Kentucky

When Susie was a baby

For the very youngest YouT

Dance to your daddy

Handy spandy

Here we go up, up, up

Hop little bunnies

Jump Jim Joe

Roosters and hens

Row your boat

See-saw Margery Daw

Walking, walking

Nursery favourites YouT

Alice the camel

Ha ha this away

Wind the bobbin up

Aeroplanes, aeroplanes

Kangaroo Brown*

The bear went over the mountain

Bobby Bingo

Tiny Tim

My pigeon house

Classic singing games YouT

A ring o’roses

Green gravel

Little sandy girl

Mrs. Bond

Nuts in May

Oranges and lemons

Pop! Goes the weasel

The farmer’s in his den

The mulberry bush

This old man

Over the ocean YouT

A sailor went to sea

Bully in the alley

I’se the b’y

John Kanaka-naka

Roll the old chariot along

Turn the glasses over

When I was one

When we dance the polka

More nursery favourites YouT

Hickory dickory dock

I’m a little teapot

Incy Wincy spider

Little Arabella Miller

Pat-a-cake

Ride a cock horse

 

 

A treasury of games and songs

For the very young A-H YouT

All around the daffodils

All my little ducklings

Andy Pandy, sugar and candy

Alphabet song

Animal babies

Baby, baby clap your hands

Baby goes boom-boom

Ball rolling

Bibbidi, bobbidi boo

Bubbles in the air

Button up!

Can you walk on tiptoe?

Circle of the sun

Cows in the kitchen

Clap your hands little Andrew Brown

Clap your hands together like this

Crackers and crumbs

Cuckoo! Cherry tree

Dance, dance baby

Dance, my child, dance

Down by the greenwood sidey-o

Eye Winker, Tom Tinker

Good morning to you!

Have you heard the cat at night?

Here are my ears

Hickety tickety bumble-bee

Hop a little, skip a little

For the very young I-O

I can run as fast as you

I have two eyes to see with

I know a hairy bear

I met a little tidy mouse

I’m a tall, tall tree

It’s time for us to go

It’s time to put our coats on

Little friend, let’s merry be

Little horses, little horses

Little snail / Lilla snigel

Mary come a-runnin’

Mother, may I go out to swim?

My wonderful bundle of fun

Niddledy noddeldy

On my face I have a nose

One little bumble bee

Owl in the tree says, “Whoo, whoo, whoo!”

Pickles in the pickle pot

Pray open your umbrella

Puppy’s little paddy paws

For the very young R-W YouT

Rabbit ain’t got no tail at all

Reach for the stars (Bend and stretch)

Roly poly, roly poly

Rose, Rose and up she rises

Sana, sana, colita de rana

See the ponies galloping

Skip around the room

Sweet water rollling

Swing me over the water

Tall and small

Thank you friends

The birds in the trees

The little white duck says

There’s a little bunny

This little hand is a good little hand

Three little ducklings

Thumbkin, Pointer

Tickle the clouds

Time for us to go

Time to put your coat on

Turn around and touch the ground

“Wake!” says the sunshine

We’re clapping

What little animals say

Where, oh where has my little dog gone?

Whoops Tommy!

What shall we do when we all go out?

Wiggly is a wee wee worm

 

A treasury of games and songs

Games to play with baby/Tickle rhymes YouT

A tickle for your toes

Big toe, tall toe

Cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe

Criss-cross applesauce

Dance, little baby, dance up high

Dormy, dormy, dormouse

Eyes nose, cheeky, cheeky chin

Here comes a little mouse

I found a little ladybird

Knock at the door

Mix and stir and pat in the pan

On my toe there is a flea

Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo

Pitty patty polt

Games to play with baby S-Z YouT

Round and round the garden

Sailing, sailing

See my little hammer

See the little mousie

She didn’t dance

Slowly, slowly, very slowly

That’s the way the baby grows

The moon is round

This little cow eats grass

This little piggy

This little wind

Wake little fingers

Where, oh where are baby’s fingers

Whoops Tommy!

Up, up, up to baby’s nose

 

 
 Forest

A treasury of songs

Song cupboard T3 YouT

The purple bamboo

The sweet nightingale

The Walloping Windowblind

The wraggle taggle gypsies

There ain’t no bugs on me

There once was a sow

There was a big fish

There was a good old woman

There was a man

There was a monkey

There’s a fox in a box

There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a hole in my bucket

There’s a little wheel a-turning

There’s a sun for the morning

There’s someone living on a big high hill

This little light of mine

Three jolly rogues of Lynn

Three men went a-hunting

Tip toe, tip toe dinosauar

Tozie Mozie

Treading the water wheel

Song cupboard U-W YouT

Uncle Noah’s ark

Up in a balloon

Wade in the water

Walking through the jungle

Waltzing with bears

We are all noddin’

We are little sunbeams

Wee Mr. Wagtail

We’re going to dig, dig, dig

What care we?

What shall I do when a button pops?

What shall we do with the old sow’s hide?

Song cupboard When-Z YouT

When I first came to this land

When I was young I had no sense

When the train comes along

Where are you going little birdie?

Where did you get that hat?

Who built the ark?

Who wants to dance with the pretty porcupine?

Wim wim wobble-O

Yellow bird

Yonder come day

 

 

A treasury of songs

Song cupboard R-S YouT

Rabbit run on the frozen ground

Raccoon’s got a bushy tail

Ring ding dong Johnny

Robin-a-Thrush

Risha rasha rusha

Sandy River bells

Say, bonnie lassie

Scarborough Fair

Simple gifts

Sing a song of spaceships

Sing ivy

Shadows go round

Shady Grove

Shake that little foot, Dinah-O

Shanghai chicken

Shortnin’ bread

Song cupboard Sm-Sw YouT

SMILE

Smiles

Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah

Somewhere there’s a forest

Song of the Delhi tongawallah

Song of the bugs

Song of the fishes

Sourwood Mountain

Spin, spider, spin

Star of the evening

Story of Creation

Sun and stars

Susie, little Susie

Sweet potatoes

Song cupboard T1 YouT

Tadpoles and Salamanders /

Down by the creek

Take time in life

Thank goodness for gravity

The bell cow

The best things in life are free

The birch tree (Beriozka)

The bird song

The blacksmith

The carrion crow

The cockle gatherer

The cuckoo/Peter’s flowing stream

The Derby Ram

The family of man

The frog and the crow

The frog and the mouse

Song cupboard T1g-n YouT

The golden boat

The Golden Vanity

The goose and the gander

The grey hawk

The gypsy rover

The jackfish

The keeper

The lambs in the green fields

The lion is king of the jungle

The lost pony

The man in the moon as he sails the sky

The merry green fields of the lowland

Song cupboard T2 YouT

The old hen cackled

The old grey duck

The old grey mare

The old woman and the pig

The pearly Adriatic

The poor king

The river is flowing

The shepherd and his dog

The shiny little house

The Skye boat song

The Spider and the Fly

The spinning song

The squirrel

The Tottenham toad

The tailor and the mouse

The water is wide

The wee falorie man

The winds they did blow/The squirrel

The whale, the whale

The worm song

 

 

 

A treasury of songs

Song cupboard A- YouT

A basket full of nuts

A dog and a mouse

A cat came a-fiddling out of a barn

A frog went walking

A hundred years ago

A little bird sat on a tree

A nonsense song

A place in the choir

A sly old fox am I

All around my hat

All the little chickens in the garden

Among the little white daisies

Away into space

Song cupboard B YouT

Bam chi chi bam

Bananas in pyjamas

Be happy, be happy, today

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Bill Grogan’s goat

Billy Boy

Billy Pringle

Blow away the morning dew

Boatman dance, boatman sing

Bobby Shaftoe

Bought me a cat

Brush, brush, brush

By the light of the silvery moon

Song cupboard C-D YouT

Cape Cod girls

Captain Patch the pirate

Caterpillars only crawl

Chatter with the angels

Cluck, old hen

Cockles and mussels

Country life

Cows in the kitchen

Crawdad song

Crocodile smiles

Crow on the cradle

Great big boomers

Days of the week

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs

Dog and cat

Donna, donna

Don’t drop litter

Don’t waste water

Down in the meadow, hop a doodle

Ducks in the millpond

Every day is a happy day

Song cupboard F-G YouT

Farmer Brown’s cow

Father Grumble

Ferry boat

Fiddle dee dee

Follow the drinking gourd

Footsteps on the landing / Night piece

Fox went out on a chilly night

Free little bird

Freight train, freight train

Frog went a-courting

Garden song, The / Inch by inch

Granny will your dog bite?

Go round, go round

Go tell Aunt Rhody

Going down the valley

Good manners

Good morning, lords and ladies

Good morning merry sunshine

Goodmorning Mr. Hedgehog

Good peanuts

Green corn, green corn

Ground hog

Song cupboard H YouT

Had a little rooster

Hansel and Gretel

Happiness runs

Happy as a robin

Hear mosquito buzzing

Hear the blackbird sing

Here’s to Cheshire, here’s to cheese

Hey, ho, the wind and the rain / When that I was and a little tiny boy

Hey lilely, lilely lo

Hill an’ gully

Hoist the window

Honey spread on brown, brown bread

Hop-a-long Peter

Song cupboard I YouT

I am glad for my two eyes

I had a little sailboat

I have a little house

I have a little tiny house

I know where I’m going

I like peace, I like quiet

I love my little donkey

I saw a ship a-sailing

I went to the animal fair

I went to the cabbages

I wish I had the shepherd’s lamb

If all the seas were one sea

If I were a blackbird

If we could consider each otherd

It could be a wonderful world

It’s a small world

 

 

A treasury of action songs

More action songs T YouT

Tall as a tree

Teddy has the measles

The earth needs the raindrops

The elephant wobbles from side to side

The lighthouse song

The other say I met a bear

The prehistoric animal parade

The snail

The wise man and the foolish man

There was a crocodile

There’s a spider on the floor

Tippy tippy tiptoe

Tom saw a sailor

Tommy was a baker

Tongo

Tony Chestnut

Touch your nose, touch your chin

Touch your shoulders

Tuli-lule

Two little boats are on the sea

Two little hands

Two, two, what are two?

More action songs U-Z YouT

Up I stretch on tippy toe

Walk all around

Walk and stop

Way up in the sky

We are woodmen sawing trees

We’ll hop, hop, hop like a bunny

We’re five jolly pirates

We’re marching in our wellingtons

We’re marching to the drum

What is an insect?

Wheels keep turning

Wiggle and freeze

Willum he had seven sons

With my little broom

You can stamp your feet

Lap play games A-L YouT

A farmer went trotting

Acka backa soda cracker

Bell horses

Big A little A

Bimbo, Bimbo

Boing! Boing! Squeak!

Bounce you up

Charley Barley buck and rye

Chip, chip my little horse

Come up horsey / Little lap dog lullaby

Dobbin, Dobbin

Father and mother, and Uncle John

Five little riders on a nice fall day

Green grow the rushes, O

Here come three kings a-riding

Hop up my ladies

Hokey pokey

Horsey horsey

Horses horses

How many days has my baby to play?

I want someone to buy me a pony

I’m galloping Jack

Jack be nimble

John Smith, fellow fine

Little blue whale

Lap play games O-S YouT

O Kafoozalum

O Mrs Sippy O

On grandpa’s knee

One, two three a’lairy

One, two three, baby’s on my knee

Ride a mile on daddy’s foot

Ride away ride away

Ride, baby, ride

She fell into the bathtub

Sitting in a high chair

So fast, so fast my horse can go

Sweet heart, sweetheart, you’re my star

Lap play games T-Z YouT

The galloping major

The lost shoe

The meadow-bout fields

This is the way the ladies ride

Trip a trop a tronjes

To market, to market to buy a fat pig

Tommy O’Flynn

Trot, old Joe

Trot, trot to London

Trot trot trot

Walter, Walter Wagtail

What shall we do with the grumpy pirate

Zoom, zoom, zoom

More nursery favourites YouT

Diddle diddle dumpling

Down at the station

Jack in the box

Johnny get your hair cut

Miss Polly had a dolly

Teddy bear teddy bear

The wheels on the bus

 

 

A treasury of games and songs

More action songs I YouT

I am the music man

I can hear my hands go clap, clap, clap

I jump out of bed in the morning

I have a little bicycle

I have caught a big fat trout

I wake up my hands

I wiggle  my fingers

I wish I were a little bird

If I could have a windmill

If I were a little bird

If I were so very small

If you were a farmer

If you’re happy and you know it

I’m a nut

I’m a shiny robot

I’m going to blow a bubble

I’m walking like a robot

Immediate despatch

In a cottage in a wood

In the barnyard

More action songs J-L YouT

Jackie the sailor

Jingle clap

Johnny, Johnny Jingles

Juba

Jump in the leaves

Jump, jump, jump

Jump over the moon

La la la la la la la / Tap your nose

Little birds, little birds

Little hands, little hands

Let everyone clap hands like me

Lickety spry

Long-legged sailor

Looking for a dinosaur

Love grows under the wild oak tree

More action songs M-P YouT

Michael row the boat

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac

Mister Green Froggie

Moose, monkey, kangaroo

Move with me

Mr. Jumping Jack Man

My dog Rags

My roots go down

My ship sailed from China

My thumbs are starting to wiggle

‘Neath the spreading chestnut tree

Nicky, knacky, knocky, noo

Oh, my fish in the sky

Oh, what shall we do in our garden

Okki-tokki-unga

One finger one thumb keep moving

Old Miss Sally

Old Missouri had a mule

Oliver Twist twist twist

Pickin’ a spot

More action songs R-S YouT

Raise your hands above your head

Riding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane

Rock-a-bye your bear

Rolling all around in a boat on the sea

Row, boys, row

Run like billy-o

Run, run, as fast as you can!

San Toki / Mountain bunny

Sarah the whale

Say, won’t you come along with me

Shake hands Mary

Shake, shake the apple tree

She waded in the water

Show me your right hand

Sometimes I am a sailor

Spaceship to the moon

Sunflower, sunflower standing straight

Swim little duck

Sunday, Sunday, clap, clap, clap

 

 

A treasury of songs

Song cupboard J-K YouT

Jack the lad and Jim

Jelly on a plate

Jim Crack Corn / Big old owl

Joe the carrier’s lad

Joe Rattle

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

John Jago

John, the rabbit

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Todd

Katie Beardie

Keemo Kimo

Keep on the sunny side

Kitty and mousie

Song cupboard L YouT

Land of the silver birch

Last night as I lay sleepng

Lazy coconut tree

Leave her Jonny

Let it be

Let’s all sing like the birdies sing

Let’s go fly a kite

Little Bingo

Little bird on my window

Little black bull / Hoosen Johnny

Little David play on your harp

Little John will be gone

Little Moses

Little Peter Rabbit

Little Rabbit Foo Foo

Little red fox

Song cupboard L 2 YouT

Little seed

Little Sir Echo

Little spring (Korean)

Little things / Little drops of water

Long, long ago

Look for the beauty

Lots of worms

Love somebody, yes I do

Lovely Rosa

Louisiana waltz song

Lukey’s boat

Lulabelle

Lychee China white sea

Song cupboard M YouT

Magic penny

Make new friends

May Day in the morning

May there always be sunshine

Me grandfather died

Mi caballo blanco / My white horse

Mingulay boat song

Mole in the ground

Morningtown ride

Moscow nights

My Aunt Jane

My bonnie lies over the ocean

My big black dog

My father had a horse

My shadow

My singing bird

Song cupboard N YouT

Nellie the Elephant

Nelly Bly

Never smile at a crocodile

Noah’s ark shanty

Nora Lee

Norwegian milking song

Song cupboard O-P YouT

Oh dear, what can the matter be?

Oh, Jemima, look at your Uncle Jim

Oh, we can play on the big brass drum

Old Dan Tucker

Old Joe Clark

Old MacDonald

Old Mother Mitchell

On Ilkley Moor baht’at

One cold and frosty morning

One little pebble

One misty moisty morning

One more river

One more step

Open the window

Paul’s little hen

Peace is flowing like a river

Perrie, merrie, dixi, domini

Plant a tree

Planting rice

Poppies and goslings / Papaveri e papere

 

Allons-y!

The French collection 2

Allons-y!

À Paris YouT

En passant les Pyrénées

En passant par la Lorraine

Le petit train

Les petites locos

Les roues du bus

Pour passer le Rhône

Roulez roulez YouT

Au bord de la mer

Bateau sur l’eau

Il était un petit navire

Le beau bateau YouT

Les petits poissons

Pique la baleine

Viendras-tu dans mon bateau? YouT

À la ferme

Il était une fermière

Le fermier dans son pré

Quand trois poules YouT

Rock and roll des gallinacés

Au moulin

Meunier tu dors YouT

Tourne, tourne petit moulin YouT

La nourriture

Allons chercher l’herbette

J’aime la galette

La danse des legumes YouT

Pomme de reinette et pomme d’api YouT

Rondin picotin YouT

Trempe ton pain Marie YouT

Dansons tous ensemble!

À la Monaco YouT

La Bigue Biguette

Mademoiselle voulez-vous danser?

Tous en rond dansez

Jouons tous ensemble!

C’est Gugusse YouT

La mistenlaire

Le plus nous sommes ensembles

Un soir dans sa cabane

Dans le bois

Dans la forêt lointaine

Enfilons les aiguiles du bois

Nous n’irons plus au bois

La secouette

Le furet du bois YouT

En avant!

Chevaliers de la table ronde

Fanfan la Tulipe

Le chevalier du Guet

Les fourmis marchent

Au baguette du roi

À la ronde des muets YouT

En roulant ma boule YouT

La reine à dit

Melchior et Balthazar YouT

En train de travailler

Au feu les pompiers YouT

La belette

La fille du coupeur de blé

Le facteur n’est pas passé

Scions du bois YouT

Sur le pont d’Avignon YouT

Voulez-vous le ramoneur?

Les sages et les fous

C’est Rivaut

Jean de la Lune YouT

La terre nourrit tout

La trompeuse

Train de balai

Bonjour et bonne nuit

La danse des lapins YouT

La fenotte

Mains en l’air YouT

Petit ourson

Saut du lapin

 

Tingelinge pannenkoek

The Dutch collection

 

Zeg ken jij de mosselman

Jobs

Advocaatje ging op reis

Als mijn vader en mijn moeder

In Den Haag daar woont een graaf

Ik stond laatst voor een poppenkraam

Zagen, zagen, wiedewiedewagen

Zeg ken jij de mosselman

Op de boerderij

On the farm

Al de eendjes YouT

Boer wat zeg je van mijn kippen

Daar reed een boer naar Leuven

Een koetje en een kalfje

In een groen knollenland YouT

Twee boerenkinderen

Zakdoekje leggen

In het bos

In the woods

De boom die wordt

Jongens meisjes aan de kant YouT

Op een grote paddenstoel YouT

Roodborstje tikt aan het raam YouT

Toemba, toemba, toemba, toemba

Zeg roodkapje

Klap eens in je handjes

Hands, feet and faces

Deze vuist op deze vuist

Dit zijn mijn wangetjes

Hak en teen

Ik heb twee mooie oren

Klap eens in je handjes YouT

Met de vingertjes

So gaat de molen YouT

Twee handjes op de tafel YouT

Het regent

It’s raining

Hannes loopt op klompen

Hansje Pansje kevertje

Het regent, het regent

Het regent op de brug

Onder moeders paraplu

Parapluutje, parasolletje

In het water

In the water

Berend Botje

De krokodil die ligt in het water

Jan Huygen in de ton

Schipper mag ik overvaren

Varen varen over de baren YouT

Visje visje in het water YouT

Witte zwanen, zwarte zwanen

 

 

Hop-là!

The French collection 1

Un, deux, trois

À la ronde jolie YouT

Passez pompons YouT

Pimpanicaille

Sauterelle

Un kilomètre à pied

Un petit bonhomme

Violette à bicyclette

Des vêtements et les couleurs

À la queue leu leu YouT

J’ai des poules à vendre YouT

Promenons-nous dans les bois

Quand Biron voulut danser

Corps et âmes

Enroulez le fil

J’ai un pied qui remue YouT

La danse du Limousin

La Lanverne YouT

La tapette YouT

La toumba YouT

Le boogie woogie

Lou Branle

Pied petitou

Pimpé, Pimpé

Secoue-toi

Têtes, épaules, genoux et pieds

Les marionettes

Jean Petit

Les marionettes YouT

Mains et pieds YouT

Petroushka YouT

Polichinelle

En famille

Bonjour mon cousine

Drôle de machine YouT

La boîte à outils YouT

Moi j’aime papa

Quand Fanny

Chez nous

Ah! mon beau château

C’est la Chandeleur 

Dansons la capucine

Le grand cerf

Toc, toc, toc, toc YouT

Dans le jardin

Auprès de ma blonde

Le petit nid de lièvre YouT

Mon petit lapin YouT

Savez-vous planter les choux? YouT

Tournons autour de la bruyère

Une poule sur un mur YouT

Les oiseaux

Alouette YouT

Alouette sur la branche

La volette YouT

Le loriot

Passe passe passera YouT

Et animaux petits

Branle du rat YouT

Citrouille YouT

Coccinelle

La ronde des oursons YouT

Petit escargot YouT

Un ouistiti

Y’a un rat

Animaux grands

Ah! Les crocodiles YouT

Danse de l’ours

J’ai vu le loup

Monsieur l’Ours

Qui a peur du loup? YouT

Sardines et crocodiles

Un éléphant ça trompe

Un éléphant qui se balançait

 

Joan del Rui

The Catalan collection

 

Els números i pedretes

Conillets a amagar

La gallina ponicana YouT

La pedreta

La tortuga YouT

Les pometes YouT

Pedra, pedreta

En cos i ànima

El ball de maniera YouT

El ball de Sant Cornelli

En Joan Petit YouT

Peu polidor

Si tu et vol divertir

Som els cavallers

Pica de peus

Els esclops de Pau

La dansa-sa YouT

La sardana de l’avellana

La solipanta

Napoleó YouT

Volta cap aqui

Gegant i petit

Balla el drac

El gegant del Pi

El tio fresco

Els petits putxinel li YouT

En Patufet YouT

Peix peixet

Un tren petito

Els animals

 Arri arri tatanet

El bedriol

El lleó no em fa por YouT

El ruquet valent

Escarbat bum bum

Jo tinc una cabreta

La petita granoteta

Mireu els meus ànecs

Ploreu ploreu ninetes YouT

Els oficis i la granja

Cançó dels colors YouT

El ball de la civada

El ball de Sant Ferriol

El petit vailet

Els quatre llauradors

La pastoreta

Som els bombers YouT

Aliments i beguda

Beurem una boteta

El dijous llarder

En Joan ve de la cuina

Jo tinc cinc pomes

Joan del Rui YouT

La Caterineta YouT

La coqueta amb sucre

La masovera

Olles, olles

Xim, na, na, nà YouT

Xiriminimi

La tardor

La castanyera YouT

Les fulletes YouT

L’esquirol YouT

M’agrada la tardor YouT

Pet patum

Soc un bolet YouT

Tres sis nou

De la nit, el dia i el temps

Ara plou, ara neva YouT

Dalt del diri

La lluna la pruna

Mireu alla dalt

Sol solet YouT

Trinco trinco

Anem a cantar i ballar

A la vora de la mar

Ball de cercavila de Salàs

Ball dels mocadors

La bolangera

Picarel la

Sant Antoni i el dimoni

Tots els ocells que canten

 

*** http://malandia.cat

Find more Catalan songs and poems too, some by Valencian musicians such as Paco Muñoz and Dani Miquel, translated into English by Lluís Barberà i Guillem.***

 

Tingelinge pannenkoek

The Dutch collection

 

In Holland staat een huis

At home

Er was er eens mannetje

Hop Marjanneke

In de maneschijnj

In Holland staat een huis

Opa Bakebaard YouT

Woutertje, Woutertje YouT

Joepie, Joepie is gekomen

People and friends

Annamarie Katrien YouT

Groen is gras

Hinkel de pinkel

‘k Zan zo graag een ketting rijgen

Joepi, Joepi YouT

Tante Pie

We maken een kringetje

Zo zijn onze manieren

Travel

Constant heft een hobble paard

Een Nederlandse Amerikaan

En mijn een been staat

Een treintje ging uit rijden YouT

Mag ik trapje hoger gaan?

Ri ra roets

Rijden rijden in een wagentje

Wie gaat er mee

Zo zijn onze manieren

Juffrouw, wil je de polka leren

Dancing, music and games

Daar zat een klein zigeunermeisje

Epompee

Heb een brilletje al voor mijn ogen

Juffrouw, wil je de polka leren

Juffrouw, wilt u mijn marmotje

Ra, ra, ra, wie heeft de bal

Twee violen en een bas, bas, bas

Één, twee, drie, vier

Number

De zevensprong YouT

Er zalen zeven kikkertjes

Hoedje van papier YouT

Robinson Robinson

Twee emmertjes water halen

Waar is Jan met de bokkewagen

Tingelinge pannenkoek

Food

Elssje Fiederelsje YouT

Er was er eens een vrouw

Handjes draaien YouT

Ik ben geboren in Frieseland

Ik zag twee beren

Papaegaaitje leef je nog?

 

 

 

Discover my YouTube topic Playlists: community singing, Halloween, Autumn, Winter, Christmas, Spring, Summer,wet weather, poetry and rhymes, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, French, Polish Australian and London songs, nursery rhymes, lullabies, number songs, songs about colour, wild things, sunshine zoo, farming and farm animals, seaside, circle and action games, finger rhymes and songs and more.

 

 

La pájara pinta

The Spanish collection

Cuéntalos conmigo

Brinca la tablita

Cinco lobitos

Cinco ratoncitos YouT

Dos manitas, diez deditos YouT

La gallina popujada

Los esqueletos YouT

Pon gallinita pon YouT

Uno, dos y tres

Yo tengo una casita YouT

Mi cuerpo

Asi van, van, van YouT

Digo si, digo no

El juego chirimbolo

El juego del calentamiento

Juanito cuando baila

La Tia Monica YouT

Mi carita redondita

Mi cuerpo, mi cuerpo YouT

Saco una manita

Un ratoncito

Yo tengo una carita

Del vestido

A la zapatilla por detrás

Cantaba la rana

Juguemos en el bosque

La petaquita

La Tarara

Pico picotero YouT

Veo, veo

Aliments

 A la rueda, rueda

Al corro de la patata YouT

Arroz con leche YouT

Aserrín, aserrán

Bate bate chocolate

La vaca lechera

Naranja dolce

Piñón, piñón, piñón

Yo tengo un tallarín

La granja

Al pavo pavito

Estaba una pastora

Las ocas van descalzas YouT

Los patitos YouT

Los pollitos dicen YouT

Mi gallo

Miguel, Miguel, Miguel

Patos, pollos y gallinas YouT

Qui qui ri qui

Todos los patitos

Els trabajos

Andar en tren YouT

Con mi martillo YouT

Don Piruli

El baile de la avena

El cocherito, leré

La farola del palacio

Matarile

San Serini YouT

Soy el farolero

 

La pájara pinta

The Spanish collection

 

Els animals pequeños

Aquel caracol

Debajo un botón

Don Melitón

El caracolito YouT

El gato y el ratón

El toro Toronjil YouT

La cucaracha

Los pescaditos

Una mosca

Una pulga y un ratón

Hay un gran animal

A mi burro a mi burro YouT

Caballito blanco YouT

El cocodrilo

La bella naranja

La danza de la serpiente

La foca Ramona

Mirad, mirad allí

Un elefante se balanceaba

Los pajaritos

Cigüeña cigüeña

Doña cigüeña

La pájara pinta

Los pajaritos que van

Ni tú, ni tú, ni tú

Pajarito vuela tú YouT

Del mar

A la vibora de la mar

Al pasar la barca YouT

El barco chiquitito

En alta mar

Juan Paco Pedro de la Mar

La reina de los mares

La rueda más hermosa

Se va la barca YouT

Tiburón, tiburón

Baila tú

A las estatuas de marfil

Ahora vamos a cantar

Chequi morena YouT

El chipi, chipi YouT

La mariposa

La tarantulita

Se baila el minué YouT

Taco y punta YouT

Toca el instrument

Así le hace Juan YouT

Bartolo

El juego de Juan Pirulero

El tambor de la Alegría

En la feria de San Juan

Gatatumba YouT

José se llama el padre

Una, do, li, tra

¡Cuánta gente!

A coger, el trébole

A la rueda de San Miguel

Doña Blanca YouT

El florón YouT

La reina Berenguela

Mambrú

Mirón, mirón, mirón

La noche, el dia y el tiempo

Al ánimo

Chiapenecas

Con el guri, guri, guri

La araña pequeñita

Martinello

Patatin, patatin, patatero YouT

Pimpón YouT

Que llueva YouT

Tres hojita madre YouT

 

 

Karuzela

The Polish collection

 

Off we go

Jedzie pociąg YouT

Karuzela

Kółko graniaste

Maszerują dzieci drogą

Nie chcę cię

Nitko nitko YouT

In the forest

Jadą jadą misie YouT

Kasztanek YouT

My jesteśmy krasnoludki YouT

Orzeszki laskowe YouT

Szła dzieweczka

Food and farming

Czarny baranie YouT

Czerwone jabłuszko

Ja Kujawiak, ty Kujawiak

Mało nas

Miała baba YouT

Rolnik sam w dolinie

Trojak

Wele wele wetka

Creatures great and small

Chodzi lisek koło drogi

Jeżyk YouT

Kot i mysz

Pingwinek YouT

Poszła żabka spacerować YouT

Stonoga YouT

Wlazł kotek na płotek

Bodies

Julijanka

My są żabki

Niedźwiadek YouT

Pięć paluszków

Tańczymy labada

Tu paluszek YouT

W murowanej piwnicy

Feelings and family

Baloniku

Fari, fara, farum YouT

Grozik YouT

Kawaliry

Kwiatek dla mamy YouT

Mam chusteczkę haftowaną

Ola chce wyjechać

Stoi różyczka YouT

Synkopa / The big dig YouT

Music making

Jestem muzykantem

Jestem sobie przedszkolaczek

Orkiestra YouT

Playtime

Dwa malutkie misie YouT

Misia A Misia B

Nazywają mnie poleczka

Spacer po dywanie

Tańcowały dwa Michały YouT

Tańczą pajacyki

Seasons

Bałwankowa rodzina YouT

Biały walcyzk

Małe czerwone jabłuszko YouT

Ola i Liście YouT

Tak się zachmurzył YouT

Sanna

Zima zła YouT

Number and time

Dorotka

Hej, żeglujże żeglarzu YouT

Jawor jawor

Krakowiaczek jeden

Laurencjo

Ojciec Wirgiliusz YouT

Stary niedźwiedź YouT

Taniec siedmiokroczek YouT

You can find many more songs and singing games in Polish and other languages and vidoes to watch at: http://www.edumuz.pl/news.php

 
 


NEW!

Songs for a better world A-R

A jewel in the universe / Hear the stars sing***

Deep blue sea

Do you know how many little stars

Good morning dear Earth

Let it be

Little Pixie Pick-me-up

Little things

Lots of worms

Mother Earth

My guitar plays for the moon***

My roots go down

One pair of hands

Our planet is a garden ***

Our poor planet Earth ***

Reach, reach, reach for the stars ****

Reforest our planet ***

Songs for a better world S-Z

Simple gifts

Sing for the climate / Do it now

Somewhere there’s a forest

Swim on, swim on ***

The best things in life are free

The Earth is our Mother

The family of man

The garden song

The river is flowing

This pretty planet

What do we do when we plant a tree?*

Winter songs

A – I

Bread and milk for breakfast

Chickadee

Come here little robin

Dance like snowflakes

Dress up warmly

Falling snow

Feed, feed, feed the birds

Five little snowflakes

Five little snowmen

Five little snowmen fat

Five snow angels

Frosty the snowman

Frosty weather, snowy weather

Hands are cold and feet are cold

I like winter, I like snow

I made a little snowman

I’ll make me a snowball

I’m a little penguin

I’m a little snowman

I’m going to build a little house

In winter time

It snows in the night

It’s snowing, it’s blowing

J – O

Jack Frost rapped on the window pane

Jacky Frost

Jolly red nose

Knock no more!

Little Jackie Jack Frost

Little snowflake

Little snowflakes song

Merry little snowflakes dancing in the air

Mince pies or pudding

On a frosty morning

Once there was a snowman

One day we built a snowman

Over the river and through the woods

P- Z

Peter, Peter Penguin

Sing a song of winter

Sleigh ride

Snowdrops, snowdrops

Snowkey Pokey

Song of the dragon

The sky bears had a pillow fight

Tiny little snowflakes

To a snowflake

Way up high in the winter sky

We sing of the polar bear

Who saw the footprints in the snow?

Who made the footprints in the snow?

Willlows in the snow

Winter is cold

Wrap up warmly for winter

Spring songs

Spring songs A-C

A happy song for a Spring day

A liitle seed

A speckled green frog

A Spring song

A sweet little robin

Apple trees in bloom

Buttercups and daisies

Caterpillar, caterpillar

Cherry blossom

Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken

Chicks grow into chickens

Chinese dragon

Chinese New Year Dragon/ Let’s wave and say’ Ni hao’

Cornish May song

Crocus, crocus, waken up

Cuckoo, cuckoo

Spring songs D-H

Daffodillies yellow / Daffodilly came to town

Do you know the trees by name / Naming trees

Down in the earth

Dragon of a thousand lanterns

Early one morning

Five baby crocuses

Five crispy pancakes

Five Spring flowers

Five warm eggs

Fly, fly, butterfly fly

Fukien boat song

Have you ever seen a rainbow?

Here’s a baby birdie

Here’s a branch of snowy M ay / Maypole song

Hot cross buns

Spring songs I-O

I can’t see the wind

I dig my garden, dig, dig, dig

I found a tiny snowdrop

I have heard a mother bird

I have made a pretty nest

I know a little pussy

I love the flowers

Ibble obble black bobble

I’m a little chick

I’m a little leprechaun

I’m a little pancake

In the Spring the leaves are budding

In Springtime when the rain falls down

Irish blessing

It happens each Spring

It’s Lady Spring

Let’s tidy up

Lion Dance song

Little Johnny-jump-up

Mix a pancake

Morning has broken

My Easter bonnet

My Lady Spring

Off to the wild woods

One little daffodil

One little pancake

Spring songs P-S

Pancake Day

Pop a little pancake

Pussy got the measles

Sakura / Cherry blossoms

See the dragon dance and prance

“Shall I sing?” said the lark

Shrove Tuesday

Silver raindrops patter

Snowdrop bells

Someone’s making pancakes

Sounds of Spring

Spring carol

Spring-clean tideo

Spring has now unwrapped its flowers

Spring has sprung

Spring is coming

Spring is here

Spring song / All the birds

Spring song / As I sat on the hillside

Spring’s waking

Spring songs T-Z

The butterfly song

The donkey and the cuckoo

The fairy ring

The leprechaun

The little brown bulbs

The winter now is over

Tirra-lirra-lirra

To people who have gardens

Up pop the flowers

Wake up, wake up, all you little children

Welcome the Spring

Welcome Spring!

What is yellow?

What the robin told

When I was a lad on me father’s farm

Where are the froggies?

White bells

Songs for Christmas/

Thanksgiving

A-E 📦

A cradle hymn

A little angel all alone

A turkey ran away

A turkey sat on a backyard fence

As I went over Yonders Hill

Away in a manger

Bake a cake for Christmas

Bright morning star

Christmas cracker

Christmas Eve in Trinidad

Christmas is coming

Christmas pudding

Clap your tiny hands

Coventry carol

Dame get up and bake your pies

Deck the halls

F-N 🔔🔔

Five little Christmas trees

Five little jingle bells

Five little reindeer / Santa’s reindeer

Gloucestershire wassail

Hello, Mr. Turkey, how are you?

Here we go round the Christmas tree

Holly berries

I have a turkey in my garden

I heard Mr. Turkey say

I heard the bells on Christmas day

I saw three ships

It’s almost day

Jingle bells

Jolly old Saint Nicholas

Kings came riding

Kolyada

Let’s all do some happy clapping

Let’s be thankful

Little donkey trotting down the road

Little star shining in the darkling sky

Mama bake the Johnny cake

Mary had a baby

Nine happy reindeer

Nine little reindeer

O-S🔔

Old man of the woods

Once there was a turkey

One Father Christmas

Over the river and through the woods

Over there

Past three o’clock

Patapan

Plums in winter

Reindeer go

Reindeer hokey pokey

Ring, ring, ring the bells

Robin-a-bobbin’s present

Rocking carol

Rocky, rocky road

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

Santa Claus

Santa is his name-o

Santa’s footsteps

Santa’s reindeer

Santa’s reindeer alphabet

Silent night

Sing a song of Christmas

Sing a song of mincemeat

Sing hey! Sing hey!

Sleep of the infant Jesus

Stir a bowl of gingerbread

T-Z 🎅

The angel band

The birds’ carol

The boar’s head

The cherry tree carol

The holly and the ivy

The holly tree / Y Gelynnen

The little fir tree

The turkey

The turkey is a funny bird

There was a pig went out to jig

Three little angels

Turkey trot blues

Up on the rooftop

We wish you a Merry Christmas

When Santa got stuck up the chimney

Who is coming on Christmas night?

Winds through the olive trees

Zima, Zumba / Zuma, zumbale al pandero

 

Autumn songs

Autumn songs A-K YouT

A little Autumn fairy

A little man is standing within a wood

A song of bread

Alms for Autumn / Spindlewood, spindlewood

Apple and blackberry pie

Autumn leaves

Autumn leaves are falling

Big red tractor

Bringing in the hay

Come, little leaves

Come with me and dance with me

Did you see the wind today? / Autumn leaves

Falling leaves

Five golden leaves

Five little leaves

Five shiny conkers

For the golden corn

Glimmer lantern glimmer

Golden corn

Grey squirrel, grey squirrel

Here is an apple tree

I walk with my little lantern

John Barleycorn

Jolly October

Jump in the leaves

Autumn songs L-S YouT

My faithful Johnny

My lantern, my lantern

My nice red rosy apple

October winds

One man shall mow my meadow

Pick up a leaf

Puff the magic dragon

Red, orange, yellow brown

Roly poly acorn / Donguri korokoro

Round go the seasons

Six little acorns

Squirrel Nutkin

Sweeping with my broom

Summer, goodbye!

Autumn songs T-Z YouT

The autumn leaves have fallen down

The Autumn wind

The country farmer’s vainglory / Harvest home

The farmer gathers his hay today

The farmer sows his seeds

The hayride road

The journey of the leaves

The Little Red Hen

The loaf of bread

The miller’s song

The tree in the wood

There were three little owls

Tick tock change the clocks

Under the harvest moon / Autumn comes

What have you brought for harvest time

What shall we do on a nice Fall day?

When Mary goes walking

Wind in the corn

Yellow the bracken

 

Songs for Halloween A-H YouT

A witch wears a long tall hat

Bats in the belfry

Chop, chop, choppity chop

Dry bones

Every way and witch way

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate

Five spooky skeletons

Gobbolino, the witch’s cat

Goblins and witches

Halloween / Tonight is the night

Hallowe’en counting rhyme

Halloween fun

Halloween is coming

Halloween’s coming

Have you seen the ghost of Tom?

Hawaiian boat song

Hinx minx the old witch winks

Songs for Halloween I-M YouT

I am a pumpkin, big and round

I am the witch’s cat

I made a Jack O’Lantern

I saw a ghost

If I were a witch

I’m a Jack-o’ lantern

I’m a mean old witch with a hat

In a dark, dark wood

In the Hairy scary castle

It’s Halloween!

Jack o’ lantern

Jack-o’-lantern (2)

Mrs White had a fright

Songs for Halloween O-SYouT

One little skeleton

One little, two little, three little witches

Old mother witch

Old witch, old witch

Out on Halloween

Queen Nefertiti / The mummy

Shake them bones, two at a time

Six ghosts lurking

Souling song

Stirring the brew

Songs for Halloween T-W

The Hairy Scary castle

The haunted house

The owl is abroad

The skeleton stomp

The witch

The witch and her cat

The witch has lost her broomstick

The witches are riding their brooms

There was an old witch

There’s a goblin in the dark

Three little pumpkins

Three little witches

To fool some folk on Halloween

Welcome said the spider

We’re witches of Halloween

Witch in the brambles

Witch, witch where do you fly?

Summer songs

Summer songs  A-H

A picnic on the grass

Apusski dusky

Around and round Miss Maggie

Bees! Zum! Zum

Blackberries / Berries turned green

Down at the seashore

Fidle de dee! Grasshoppers three

Five little seashells

Georgina’s garden

Give me a bucket and spade

Have you ever been a-fishing?

Hawaiian boat song

Hello bubble

Here is a seashell

Here is the sea

How does a caterpillar go?

How pleasant to sit on the beach

Summer songs  I-S

I do like to be beside the seaside

I went to the beach

I will plant a garden green

I’m forever blowing bubbles

In my little garden bed / The little plant

Lily pond

Little bird up in a tree

Mary Ann

My big blue boat

Nature carol

Nine little tailors

Oh, Mister Sun

Paintbox / Cauiliflowers fluffy

Picnic tea

Roll with the waves

Run little crab

Seagull, seagull sit on the shore

Shake the papaya down

Sponge fishing / Xekina mia psaropoula

Summer songs  T-Z

The cuckoo is a pretty bird

The dandelion and the child

The minibeast parade

The sun has got his hat on

The teddy bears’ picnic

The water fairies

There I was just a-swimming in the sea

There’s a tiny caterpillar

There was a little turtle

We have planted in our garden

We sail and we sail and we stop!

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

 

A treasury of circle games

More circle games A-C YouT

A dancing song

A qua qua del a omar

A-tisket, a-tasket

Ach ja! So, so!

All around the buttercups

All join hands

All those born in January

Ally galoo galoo

Apples, peaches, pears and plums

Bassez down

Big bunch of roses

Bird in a cage / Kagome, kagome

Birthday song game

Bluebird, bluebird, thru’ my window

Boom makaleli

Bounce high, bounce low

Built my lady a fine brick house

Button you must wander

Can you tell me ?

Chiri bim, chiri bom

Clapping Land

Come along everyone

Come and join the circle

Cut the cake

More circle games D-E YouT

Dance with me

Dancing in a ring

Dancing through the corn

Darby, Darby dressed in black

Dog tick

Doggie, doggie

Down in the holler

Down in the valley two by two

Down is the Earth, up is the Sky

Down the Mississippi

Dry bones come skipping

Fire child dance

Fly like an eagle

Frère Jacques

Frog in the meadow

More circle games G-H YouT

Go round the mountain

Golden ring around the Susan girl

Goosey, goosey gander, where do you go?

Great big house in New Orleans

Green coffeee grows on white oak trees

Gretel Pastetel

Haida, Haida

Hands, knees and Boomps-a-daisy

Here we sit in a ring

Here sits a monkey

Here we come a-piping

Here we go dancing jingo-ring

Here we go Santy Maloney

How do you do and shake hands

How d’you do? How are you

Hunt the cows

More circle games I YouT

I am a jolly leprecaun

I can walk with two feet

I don’t care if the rain comes down

I sent a letter to my love

I want to be a farmer

I wonder, wonder why

If you should meet an elephant

Jeremiah, blow the fire

Jump Little Annika

Intery mintery

I’ve a pigeon in my pocket

I’ve built myself a house

I’ve made a lovely bonfire

More circle games J-M YouT

Jeremiah, blow the fire

Jump little Annika

Kokoleoko

Lazy Mary will you get up

Let’s go walking

Lickety spry

Little bird hops down the street

Little circle turning

Little lady from Baltimore

Little Tommy Tattlemouse

Little swallow

Looby Loo

Lucy Locket

Miss Sue / Go through your tiny window

Mother Earth, Mother Earth

Mouse, mousie

My little boat turned over

My little dog Buff

More circle games N-P YouT

Naughty pussy cat

No bears out tonight

Old bald eagle

Old Mister Rabbit

One in the middle

One little bluebird

One, two, three, open your eyes and see

Our boots are made of leather

Pass the ball / Mawga nanny

Pass the pebble on

Peep squirrel

Poor Jenny sits a-weeping

Push the business on

Put your little foot

More circle games R-S YouT

Rabbit in the hollow

Red balloon, pass it on

Rhymer’s roundelay

Ring around the rocket ship

Rocky mountain high

Rosy apple, lemon and a pear

Round and round

Round and round and round we go

Round and round the apple tree

Round and round the wheel goes

Sheep in the meadow

Skating away

Skip to my Lou

Slip one and two

Snake baked a hoecake

Somebody’s waiting

More circle games T YouT

Tea Rye Riley

That’s the life of the farmer

The button and the key

The Elfin Cap

The farmer

The feather bed’s the best bed

The juniper tree / Oh, Sister Phoebe

The leaves are green

The needle’s eye

The wind blows high

There came an old woman from Sandy Land

There once was a princess long ago

There stands a lady on the mountain

There were two jolly sailors

Ting, tang,tellerlein

Tread, tread the green grass

More circle games W-Z YouT

Uncle John is sick a-bed

Üsküdar

Water, water wallflower

We are dancing in the forest

We are fine musicians

We’ll all join in the circle

Wishy washy wee

Who are you?

Who will come into my small ring?

Who’s got a fishpole?

Who’s that tapping at my window?

Will you be a friend of mine

Yo ho, I pull the anchor

Zum gali gali

Zinty tinty tuppenny bun

Playground and outside games YouT

All in a row

Blackthorn! Blackthorn!

Bluebells, cockle shells

Buttercups and daisies dancing

Chickama, chickama craney crow

Dancing around the Juniper tree

Early in the morning at eight o’clock

Father, mother may I go / Banks of roses

Mrs Macaroni

My mother said I never should

One, two, three O’Leary

Our gallant gallant ship

Poor Jenny sits a-weeping

“Stop!” says the red light

 

Follow-my-leader and other games 1 YouT

A flea went hopping

Alabama girl

All the birdies in the air

All ‘round the brickyard

All the ducks are swimming in the water

American jump

Be kind to your web-footed friends

Black snake, black snake

Can you tell me?

Come on, everyone

Do as I’m doing

Down the river

Engine, engine number nine

Follow me

Follow my Bangalorey Man

Follow the leader

Green grow the leaves on the hawthorn tree

Here come three dukes a-riding

Hi dee roon

I went to school one morning

I’m a great big tiger

Follow-my-leader and other games 2 YouT

Lead through thatsugar and tea

Let us chase the squirrel

Little red caboose

Off to Timbuktu

Oh, will you come a-sailing

Page’s train

Puffer train

Snail, snail

Somebody’s knocking at my door

Swing and turn, Jubilee

Take your feet out the sand

The elephant is so slow

The little red engine that could

The old grey cat is sleeping

The thread follows the needle

There’s a dragon crawling round

Turn, cinnamon, turn

Wind the bobbin, Ding dang!

Wind up the apple tree

 

Songs about colour

Buck-eye Jim

Colour song

Down came a lady

Down on grandpa’s farm

Here goes the red bird

Ida Red

If you are wearing red

Jenny Jenkins

Mary wore her red dress

Orange is a carrot

Roll that brown jug

So many fishies in the deep blue sea

The rainbow paints the sky

What are you wearing?

Walk along John

You’re my rainbow, you’re my star

 

Australian songs

Australian songs A-H YouT

An Australian animal alphabet

(Tread lightly on the Earth my friend)

Click goes the shears

Good morning Mrs Dingo

Grandma saw a possum

Great big boomers

Hippety Hop the kangaroo

Hop, hop, hop

Australian songs I-K YouT

I got kicked by a kangaroo

I walked along in the bush one day

Kangaroo Brown*

Kangaroos like to hop

Kangaroo, skippy roo

Kookaburra

Australian songs L-S YouT

Little Tommy Tadpole

Look at the terrible crocodile

Maranoa lullaby

Old Jumpety Bumpety

Platypus, echnida

One snail, two snails

Said the kind kangaroo

Australian songs T-W YouT

Tadpole tadpole what do you see?

The emu and the kookaburra

The ostrich

The sneezing fisherman

Three jellyfish

When someone smiles at me

Who wants an octopus cuddle?

 

Poetry please

Snip, snap crocodile A-K YouT

Poems + action and other rhymes for children

A goblin lives in our house

A little green frog

A little lovely dream / Hindu cradle song

A wise old owl sat on an oak

Are you going to golf sir?

Boats sail on the rivers

Busy little ants

Calico Pie

Cats sleep anywhere

Come little leaves

Five little owls in an old elm tree

Four little birds

Garden fairies

Goodnight

Grasshopper Green

Here are grandma’s glasses

How doth the little crocodile

How doth the little busy bee

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?

Hundreds of stars

I wish I lived in a caravan

I’d love to be a fairy’s child

If you should meet a crocodile

In a hickory nut

Jack Frost is about!

Juniper, Juniper

Kind hearts are the gardens

Knock, knock, knock, knock

Snip, snap crocodile L-S YouT

Little by little an acorn said

Looe

Look at your hat!

Minnie and Winnie

Moby Dick

Monday’s child

Mousie, mousie

My Lady Spring

Old John Muddlecombe

On the Ning Nang Nong

One day I saw a a downy duck

One for sorrow, two for joy

One-eyed Jack the pirate chief

Picnic tea

Pretty cow

Pussy willow

Rat-a-tat-tat

Red in Autumn

Sampan

Sing, little bird

Someone came knocking

Six little mice

Snip, snap crocodile T-Z YouT

The clucking hen

The cold old house

The early morning

The fairies

The lark is up to meet the sun

The leaves had a wonderful frolic

The little plant

The little tune

The night will never stay

The Owl and the Pussycat

The prickly little hedehog

The robin

The rose is red

The snake

The swallow

The swing

The tadpole

The wind came out to play The playful wind

The woodpecker

The world is full of colour

There are big waves and little waves

There was a little robin

This is the boat, the golden boat

Thistledown

Three jolly gentlemen

Time to rise

Tipety, tipety tin

To let

Under a stone where the earth was firm

Under the blanket

Walk fast in snow

We have a secret, just we three

What do you suppose?

What does little birdie say?

When you see a daffodil

Which is the way to Fairyland?

Whisky Frisky

 

London songs and games

A smooth road to London Town

Anna Marie

Blackfriars

Follow my leader to London town

How many miles to London town?

London Bridge

London Bridge is broken down

London’s burning

London Hill

Pop goes the weasel

Pussy cat, pussy cat

Saint Paul’s steeple

See saw sacradown /

The merchants of London

Three pirates came to London town

Young lambs to sell

 

Finger and hand play A-B YouT

A caterpillar crawled

A chubby little snowman

A crocodile swam in the water

A hedgehog is very prickly

A little child’s walk / A little boy’s walk

A little fish was swimming

A little garden seed

A little green frog

A mouse lives in a little hole

A tiny, tiny worm

A smile is like the sunshine

Afloat, afloat in a golden boat / Sailing

All the fish are swimming in the water

Alligator, alligator long and green

Alligator and frog

Animals up the hill (Malaysian)

Bear in a cave

Big bugs, small bugs

Birdie, birdie

Bugs are neat, bugs are sweet

Building up my house

Finger and hand play C-F

Clapping mouse

Chicken in the barnyard

Come-a-look-a-see

Dance, Thumbkin, dance

Dance your fingers up

Dear little moon

Dig a little hole

Down in the grass, curled up in a heap

Fee, fi, fo, fum

Fingers like to wiggle waggle

Fingers, thumbs and toes

Five little mice on the pantry floor

Fuzzy little caterpillar

Finger and hand play H-I YouT

Hands on shoulders

Here are the astronauts

Here are the lady’s knives and forks

Here comes the bright Spring sun

Here is a boy / girl

Here is a bunny

Here is a chimney

Here is a house, built up high

Here is a house with a pointed door

Here is a nest for a bluebird

Here is a tree with leves so green / The apple tree

Here is the church

Here’s a little mousie

I had a little cherry stone

I had a little pig

I have a little spider

I have ten little fingers

I saw a little rabbit go hop, hop, hop

I’m a little bunny

Finger and hand play J-N YouT

Johnny Puppet dances

Little bird, little bird, flap your wings

Little brown seeds

Little fishes swim along

Lirum larum Little Thumbkin, dance

Little robin redbreast sat upon a tree

Little robin redbreast sat upon a rail

Little seeds

Look at the terrible crocodile

Magpie was sitting on the stove

Merry little raindrops

Mister Turkey and Mister Duck

Mrs. Mouse was cooking rice

Mrs Pussy’s dinner

My fingers are so sleepy

My hands upon my head I’ll place

Never say ‘No!’ to your greens

Finger and hand play O-S YouT

Old Tom Tomato

Once a little apple tree

Once I saw a bunny

Once I saw a little bird

Once I saw an octopus

One little finger

Open, shut them

Piggie Wig and Piggy Wee

Plant a little seed

Put your finger on your head

Right hand, left hand

Roly poly caterpillar

See, see, see, three birds are in a tree

See my fingers merrily dancing

See the carrots

Something in my pocket

Sometimes my hands are at my side

Stars are twinkling in the sky

Sunflower, sunflower

Finger and hand play T-Z YouT

The bird’s nest

The golden sun is shining

The oak tree

The owl and the brownies

The rainbow

The snake charmer

The sun it rises

The waves on the sea

There was a hungry hunter

There’s such a tiny little mouse

This little bear has a warm fur suit

This little mountain

This little tiger is very wild

This pretty planet

Three little owlets

Tiny little bird

Tiptoeing in the dark

Finger and hand play To-Tld YouT

Tommy Thumb

Tommy Thumb is up

To the sky and back

Tortoise the brave

Two fat gentlemen

Two little blackbirds sitting in the snow

Two little blackbirds sitting in the sun

Two little dickie birds

Finger and hand play Tlf-Z YouT

Two little feet go tap, tap, tap

Two little houses

Two mother pigs

Up the tall white candlestick

Up to the ceiling, down to the floor

Where is Thumbkin?

Wild geese flying

Wiggle them, wiggle them

 

Count away

Nursery number favourites

To 3

Alligator one, alligator two

My hat it has three corners

Once there were three cats

One, two, three, hairy bears I see

See, see, see, three birds are in a tree

The farmer’s apple tree

The farmer’s geese

The three little pigs

There were two birds sat on a stone

Three blind mice

Three crows

Three craws

Three dinosaurs came out to play

Three little birds

Three little fish

Three little kittens

Three little owls

Three little pigs and a little pig more

Three young rats

Two little eyes

Two little eyes that blink, blink, blink

Two, two what are two?

Twinkle, twinkle traffic lights

Way up high in the apple tree

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bear

 

To 5 A-F

Blackbird singing

Blowing bubbles

Fishing song

Five brown eggs in a nest of hay

Five currant buns

Five firefighters

Five in the bed

Five little angels

Five little ants

Five little busy bees

Five little candles

Five little caterpillars

Five little chickadees

Five little chickens

Five little ducks went swimming one day

Five little Easter rabbits

Five little field mice

Five little friends

To 5 F

Five little fingers

Five little fishes

Five little friends in a flying saucer

Five little gingerbread men in a row

Five little gingerbread men lying on a tray

Five little goslings

Five little leprechauns

Five little men made out of snow

Five little mice on the pantry floor (2)

Five little monkeys bouncing on a bed

Five little monkeys swinging in a tree

Five little monkeys walked along the shore

Five little owls on a moonlit night

Five little robins in a sycamore tree

Five little shamrocks

Five little snowmen fat

Five little speckled frogs

Five little tadpoles

Five little teddy bearsFive little turkeys

Five little worms on the garden lawn

Five old crows

Five pigs so squeaky clean

Five plump peas

Five Spring flowers

Five snow angels

Four scarlet berries

Four seeds in a hole

To 5 G-Z

Here are the beehives

Hicketty picketty buttercup

Old Davy Jones

Old John Braddle-um

One elephant went out to play

One little cockerel

One little finger standing on its own

Only a boy named David

Peter hammers with one hammer

Poor Jane Higgins

Sailor, sailor on the sea

Six little pigs

Teasing Mr. Shark

Tired bunnies

There were two wrens

When Barnacle Bill was one

Where are the baby mice ?

 

To 10 A-N

A happy green crocodile

A mosquito one

Bees come buzzing from a hive

Blackfriars

Caribbean counting rhyme

Counting song from Mexico

Farmer Brown had ten green apples

Gath’ring the eggs

Good morning Mrs Hen

Here comes the bus

Hickety pickety

I have five fingers on each hand

I went up the apple tree

I’m going to build a chimney pot

I’ve got ten little fingers

I’ve got sixpence

Jack Jintle

Nine little planets

To 10 O-Z

On my right hand what do I see?

One and one, is a mountain

One little brown bird

One man went to mow

One, two , kittens that mew

Once I caught a fish alive

Over in the meadow

Seven little pigs

Six little acorns

Six little ducks

Ten fat sausages

Ten fat turkeys

Ten fluffy chickens

Ten galloping horse

Ten in the bed

Ten little bubbles

Ten little goblins

Ten little pumpkins

Ten little tadpoles

The ants go marching

Two little chickens

Under a web

Who gives a hoot?

To 100

Counting apple seeds

Lean daddy longlegs

One two buckle my shoe

The appleman

The centipede song

We’ll all go down the meadow

 

Lullabies A-B

A bonny boat

A bushel and a peck

A candle, a candle

A sleepy song

A summer lullaby

All the little ones are sleeping

All the pretty little horses

All the world is sleeping / Suo-Gân

All through the night

Ally bally bee

Baby mine

Baby beds

Baloo baleerie

Baby bye, here’s a fly

Baby’s bed is a silver moon

Barm sull / Child’s lullaby

Barnyard lullaby

Black sheep, black sheep

Bed is too small

Bedtime

Bossy-cow, bossy-cow

Brahms’ lullaby

Bye, baby bunting

Bye, bye, baby,baby bye

Lullabies C-F

Castle of Dromore

Come to the window

Counting sheep

Cotton-eyed Joe

Cradle song / Bye low, bye low

Cushlamochree

Daisies

Deep blue sea

Do you know how many little stars?

Dors, dors, p'tit bébé,

Douglas Mountain

Down in the valley

Down with the lambs

Dreamland opens here / A Louisiana lullaby

El coqui / The tree frog

Evening is a little boy / Small song

Fa la nana bambino

Father’s gone to sea

Far in the wood

Flower’s lullaby

Lullabies G-I

Go row the boat child

Go to sleep, go to sleepy

Go to sleep my baby

Go to sleepy little baby

Golden slumbers

Goodnight, beloved mine

Goodnight children

Goodnight Mr. Moon

Great big stars

Greensleeves

Highland fairy lullaby!

Ho ho watanay

Hobo’s lullaby

Hush now my darling

Hush-a-ba, birdie

Hushabye my bear cubs

Hush a bye my little crumb

Hush, hush little baby / Evening

Hush little baby

Hush, little rooster

Hushaby! Rockaby!

I have a little sailboat

I see the moon

If I were and elfin

I’m a bird, I sing my song

I’ve found my bonny babe a nest

Lullabies K-M

Kalinka

Kentucky Babe

Khasi’s lullaby

Kitty alone

Kumbaya ya

Lady, lady

Like a ship in the harbor

Little children / Mozart’s lullaby

Little red bird

Little silver moon

Lulla, lulla

Lulla, lullaby / A la rurru niño

Mama loves, papa loves

Mama’s gone to the mailboat

Mammy, mammy told me-o

Manx lullaby

Moon glow, moon glow

Moon, moon, shiny and silver

Morag’s cradle song

Mozart’s lullaby / Sleep, little one

My owlet

My rocket ship

Lullabies N -R

Nature’s goodnight

Nature’s lullaby

Night is here

Norwegian cradle song

Now the day is over

O ladybird

Oh, Mother how pretty the moon looks tonight

Oro, my little boat

Over the river to Charlie

Owl moon

Raisins and almonds

Rock gently sail boat

Rock me easy

Rock-a-bye baby

Rock-a-bye you

Rockaby lullaby

Rockin’ by the baby

Russian cradle song

Lullabies S

Seal lullaby

Sing a song at twilight

Sleep, baby, sleep

Sleep, little seed

Sleep, my little one, sleep

Sleep, O sleep

Softly canary sings a song / Yurikago no uta

Softly, softly rock

Starlight, starbright

Stars are hiding

Stars of the summer night

Stars shining

Suliram

Sweep away

Sweet and low

Lullabies T 

Tell me why

That’s an Irish lullaby

The dream fairy

The golden day is dying

The Israeli boat song

The man in the moon

The moon’s song

The nesting hour

The little sandman / Brahm’s lullaby

The little white boat

The starlighter

The white hen’s cradle song

Three white gulls

Time for man go home

To Babyland

Turn around

Twinkle twinkle

Lullabies U-Y

Way up high in the cherry tree

Where do you sleep?

Which is the way the wind blows?

Winkum, winkum

Warm kitty, soft kitty

Where should a baby rest?

Wishing star

Up the wooden hill

 

Just nursery rhymes A-I

Alphabet song, forwards and backwards

Baa baa black sheep

Cackle, cackle, Mother Goose

Cock-a-doodle-doo

Ding dong bell

Four and twenty tailors

Georgie Porgie

Girls and boys come out to play

Goosey, goosey gander

Hey diddle diddle

Higglety, pigglety pop!

Humpty Dumpty

I had a little nut tree

I love little pussy

If all the world were paper

Just nursery rhymes J-P

Jack and Jill

Jack Sprat

Ladybird, ladybird

Lavender’s blue

Little Bo Peep

Little Boy Blue

Little Jack Horner

Little King Pippin

Little Miss Muffet

Mary had a little lamb

Mary, Mary quite contrary

Mitty Matty had a hen

Old King Cole

Old Mother Hubbard

On Saturday night I lost my wife

Pease pudding hot

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater

Pit, pat well-a-day

Polly put the kettle on

Poor old Robinson Crusoe!

Just nursery rhymes S-W

Simple Simon

Sing, sing, what shall I sing?

Sippety sup. Sippety sup

The lion and the unicorn

There was a crooked man

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

There was an old woman lived under the stairs

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket

This is the house that Jack built

Three men in a tub

Tom, he was a piper’s son

Wee Willie Winkie

Who killed Cock Robin?

Willie Foster had a coo

Song cupboard rounds and partner songs

Brother Martin

Calll John the boatman

Canoe song

Come follow

Chain, chain, daisy chain

Clouds of rain

Early in the morning / Kum bahur

Grasshoppers three

Hey, ho nobody home

Ifca’s castle

Knock no more !

Little bells of Westminster / at Christmas time

Mr. Moon, Mr. Moon / Cuckoo!

Morning song

Now all the woods are waking

Oh, how lovely is the evening

One bottle pop!

Peace round / The scarlet rose

Round and round the Earth is turning

Sweetly sings the donkey

The frog in the bog

Thirty days hath September

Two ducks on a pond

Where is John?

Whippoorwill

White coral bells

Whose pigs are these?

Why doesn’t my goose?

 

Whatever the weather A-L

Bend with the wind

Blow, wind, blow

Dog jumps through the window

Good morning Mr. Wind

I see the wind as the leaves dance by

I hear thunder

I like to sing when the sun is shining

I love puddles

It rained a mist

It’s a windy day today

It’s raining cats, it’s raining dogs

It’s raining, its pouring /

Like a leaf or a feather

Little April shower

Little by little

Whatever the weather M-W

Michael Finnegan

Mr. Frog

Noah

Oh, oh, the sunshine

Paddling in the puddles

Rain come wet me

Rain is falling all around

Rain rain go away

The mitten song

The North wind doth blow

The rainbow fairies

The water cycle

The weather witch

What the birds say

When the rain is falling down

Who has seen the wind?

Windy weather

 

Lavender Lane

Old favourites from

my childhood

Lavender Lane A-H

A windmill in old Amsterdam

Aiken Drum

Babes in the wood

Catch a falling star

Daisy, Daisy/She was one of the early birds

Dashing away with a smoothing iron

Donkey riding

Down in Demarara

Edelweiss

English country garden

Hey! Little hen!

How much is that doggie in the window?

Lavender Lane I-R

I know a little cupboard

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly

I’m only a poor little sparrow

Inchworm

Let me call you sweetheart

Little boy fishing

Little white duck

Mairzy doats

My grandfather’s clock

My old man said follow the van

Oh, Susannah

One potato, two potato

Que sera, sera

Run rabbit, run rabbit

Lavender Lane S-Z

She sat ‘neath the lilacs

She’ll be coming round the mountain

The mermaid

The quartermaster’s store

The runaway train

The smoke goes up the chimney

There’s a little white duck

There was an old lady

Three little fishes

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

Wiggley Woo

You are my sunshine

Sunshine pie

More songs written by Dany Rosevear

You will find many more above and on my YouTube playlist of original songs

I have also written tunes to rhymes and poems.

Wild things 1 YouT

A good friend of mine

A tiger, a spider and a tiny little mouse

Bip and Bop’s song

Did you ever see a kangaroo?

Did ever you hear a dragon sing?

Wild things 2

Giraffe, giraffe, giraffe

Grandma saw a possum

Great big boomers

Hey, hippopotamus

Inky pinky pumpkin pie

Knicky knocky noo

Something scary this way comes

Giraffe, giraffe, giraffe

Grandma saw a possum

Great big boomers

Here comes Thomas

Hey, hippopotamus

Inky pinky pumpkin pie

Knicky knocky noo

Something scary this way comes

Whales can’t ride a bike

Where did the dodo go?