Shaker Song A warm up for young children to get them moving. Use a shaker or anything that makes a rattle and add some choreography as well.
Category: Songs for early years
Percy the Park Keeper’s song *
Playtime song *
Idgety Fidgety Fingers *
by Jilly Jarman A fun song to get all the fidgets out by laughing about them. It can be taught using a 1,2,3,4,5 ladder (with a drop-down to the 5th below as well). It needs to start slowly until they can say: Idgety fidgety
Silly Noise Song – Sarah Nicholson *
Jazzy and fun. A song for Early years exploring fun sounds you can make.
My Little Voice – Stephen Hudson *
Jazzy and fun. A song for early years, exploring fun sounds you can make.
Here I Am! – James Ramage **
Fun song-game for taking the register or going home time. Easy call and response with simple guitar accompaniment. Written for the Reception and Year One class at Warcop School.
Dinah *
Playground song from Northumberland with American music. Really popular Key stage 1 and 2
There’s A Hole In My Bucket *
A traditional English children’s song thought to originate in the 1770’s. It is a circular song – when you get to the end you arrive back at the beginning, with no resolution possible.
Hot Cross Buns **
Traditional English folk song. This is a version sung as a round with chord suggestions.
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush *
Traditional English Folk tune with a verse for each day of the week. There are many different versions and it is sung all over the world in different forms.
