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12 Great Songs You Should Teach Your Preschool Child

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One of the best activities to do with your children every day is to sing songs. Children love singing and they learn a lot through music and songs.

Teach your kids these fun songs for preschoolers and toddlers.

Here are just some of the educational benefits of singing nursery rhymes and songs:

  • Develops gross motor skills (action rhymes)
  • Develops fine motor skills (finger rhymes)
  • Teaches language and increases vocabulary
  • Builds auditory perceptual skills (by learning rhythm, rhyme and sounds)
  • Develops mathematical skills (counting rhymes)

These 12 songs are all-time favourites and a must for your preschoolers. Some are action songs that you can do the movements to, some are fun fingerplays and some will teach your little ones about numbers.

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12 Best Preschool Songs and Rhymes

These 12 songs are all-time favourites and a must for your preschoolers. They are also great songs for toddlers.

Some are action songs that you can do the movements to, some are fun fingerplays and some will teach your little ones about numbers.

ACTION RHYMES:

1. If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands

Repeat with:

If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet, shout ‘hurray’, pat your cheeks, do all four.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

2. The Wheels on the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round,
(roll forearms over one another in front of the body)
Round and round;
Round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All day long.

The lights on the bus go blink, blink, blink,
(open and shut hands)
Blink, blink, blink;
Blink, blink, blink.
The lights on the bus go blink, blink, blink
All day long.

The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
(make arms like windscreen wipers)
Swish, swish, swish;
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
All day long.

Make up other actions e.g. the moms go chatter, the horn goes toot, etc.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

3. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes,
And eyes, and ears, and mouth and nose
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

4. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Here we go round the mulberry bush
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning.

This is the way we wash our face
Wash our face, wash our face
This is the way we wash our face
So early in the morning.

Repeat with:

This is the way we take our bath, wear our clothes, drink our milk, march to school.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

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NUMBER SONGS:

5. Five Green Bottles

Five green bottles hanging on the wall
Five green bottles hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall
There’ll be four green bottles hanging on the wall

Repeat with four, three, two, one and no green bottles.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

6. Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks went swimming one day
(hold up five fingers)
Over the hills and far away
(hold arm across body and tuck fingers behind shoulder on the opposite side of the body)
Mother duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
(use other hand to make a mother duck beak and open and close hand to quack)
But only four little ducks came back
(bring first hand back to the front with four fingers showing

Continue until no little ducks came back, then;

Old Mother Duck went out one day,
Over the hills and far away,
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
And all of those five little ducks came back.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

Here are more fun animal songs for preschoolers.

7. Five Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
YUM! YUM!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were four speckled frogs!
GLUB! GLUB!

Four little speckled frogs…

Three little speckled frogs…

Repeat verses until there is one speckled frog left:

One little speckled frog
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
YUM! YUM!
He jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were no speckled frogs!

Listen to the tune on YouTube

8. The Ants Go Marching

The ants go marching one by one
(hold up one finger)
Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants go marching one by one,
Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants go marching one by one,
The little one stops to suck his thumb
(pretend to suck thumb)
And they all go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain.

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The little one stops to tie his shoe
(pretend to tie shoe)
3
The little one stops to climb a tree
(pretend to climb a tree)
4
The little one stops to shut the door
(pretend to shut a door)
5
The little one stops to take a dive
(pretend to dive)
6
The little one stops to pick up sticks
(pretend to pick up sticks)
7
The little one stops to pray to heaven
(pretend to pray)
8
The little one stops to shut the gate
(pretend to shut a gate)
9
The little one stops to check the time
(pretend to check wristwatch)
10
The little one stops to shout “THE END!!”
(shout out loud)

Listen to the tune on YouTube

Click here for more counting rhymes.

FINGER PLAYS:

9. Two Little Dickey Birds

Two little dickey birds sitting on a wall,
(both index fingers in air, move both of them)
One named Peter, One named Paul
(wiggle one index finger, then the other)
Fly away Peter,
(draw the hand with “the Peter finger” behind your back and hide it)
Fly away Paul
(draw the other hand – “the Paul finger’s hand” – behind your back and hide it)
Come back Peter,
(reverse the last action with “the Peter finger” hand)
Come back Paul.
(reverse the last action with “the Paul finger” hand)

Listen to the tune on YouTube

10. Tommy Thumb Where Are You?

Tommy Thumb,
(hands in air and lift thumbs)
Tommy Thumb,
Where are you?
Here I am,
(wriggle thumb)
Here I am,
(wriggle other thumb)
How do you do?

Repeat verse with Peter Pointer (index finger), Toby Tall (middle finger), Ruby Ring (ring finger), Baby Small (little finger), and Fingers All.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

11. Where Is Thumbkin?

(Start with hands behind back)
Where is Thumbkin? Where is Thumbkin?
Here I am.
(bring right hand to front, with thumb up)
Here I am.
(bring left hand to front, with thumb up)
How are you this morning?
Very well, I thank you.
(Wiggle thumbs as if they’re ‘talking’ together)
Run away.
(hide right hand behind back)
Run away.
(hide left hand behind back)

(Repeat rhyme with each finger: Pointer, Tall Man, Ring Man, and Pinkie)

Listen to the tune on YouTube

12. Ten Fingers

I have ten fingers
(hold up both hands, fingers spread)
And they all belong to me
(point to self)
I can make them do things
Would you like to see?
I can shut them up tight
(make fists)
I can open them wide
(open hands)
I can put them together
(place palms together)
I can make them all hide
(put hands behind back)
I can make them jump high
(hands over head)
I can make them jump low
(touch floor)
I can fold them up quietly
(fold hands in lap)
And hold them just so.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

I hope you enjoyed these songs for preschoolers. Need more songs? Here is a big collection of classic preschool songs.

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10 Favorite Action Songs for Kids

Here is a list of fun preschool movement songs. Try out a few of these action songs to get your preschoolers moving and grooving.

Do you get tired of dancing and moving to the same old songs with your kids?  It is sometimes difficult to find new action songs that kids really enjoy.  Here are 10 of my favorite preschool movement songs for little ones.  Hopefully, this will help you find a few new tunes to get your kids moving and grooving.

My Favorite Preschool Movement Songs

If you click on the pink title of each of these songs, the link will take you to a youtube video of the song.

The Goldfish by Then Laurie Berkner Band – You can’t go wrong with a Laurie Berkner song, and The Goldfish is one of the best.

Wiggy Wiggy Wiggles by Hap Palmer – Here is a favorite that gets kids screaming with delight.  If you pretend like the song is over when the music slows…kids scream with delight when the music starts up again.

Shake Your Sillies Out by The Learning Station – Speaking of wiggles….Here is a song to shake your sillies out and wiggle your waggles away.

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The Silly Pizza Song by Signing Times – We taught my son some sign language as he was learning to speak, and he LOVED the signing time videos.  This is a favorite.  Signing the entire song was too difficult, but we always had fun signing each silly pizza topping.

Oh Hey Oh Hi Hello by Jim Gill – Jim Gill is one of my favorite children’s musicians….and this song is a shout-out to my home state. So, you can’t go wrong with that.  Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a Buckeye to sing it.

Face the Facts by Jim Gill – Here is another favorite by Jim Gill.

Tooty Ta by Dr. Jean – Totally silliness….and this is a fun song to play when you have parents visiting.

Go Bananas by The Learning Station – Seriously, ask your kids to go bananas every once in a while.

Clap Your Hands Together – I couldn’t find my favorite version of this song, but this one will give you an idea of how the tune is sung.

Going on a Bear Hunt – You might have a kiddo who wants to sit on your lap while you enter the cave, but hunting bears is always great fun.

If you want to see all of these songs listed together on Youtube, click HERE to see the playlist that I created.

More Preschool Song Ideas

Here are more ideas that many teachers have recommended.

  1. Baby Shark by PinkFong – You might start singing this one in your sleep 🙂
  2. 5 Little Monkeys by Dr. Jean –
  3. Head, Shoulds, Knees & Toes by The Learning Station
  4. Chicken Count by Jack Hartman
  5. The Chicken Dance
  6. Slippery Fish
  7. It’s a Happy Day by Shawn Brown – Here’s a dare…Try NOT to move while listening to this fun song.

Additional Rhyming Songs and Activities

Are you looking for even more songs to get your kids moving and grooving?  Check out my favorite rhyming songs for kids and additional rhyming activity ideas below.

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