At present this is just a taster page but with links to my original Singing games for children site. Any new material will be added here.
In the lists below you will soon find links to:
‘River of song’ website pages for each song including lyrics, sheet music and chords plus a YouTube link to each song.
More links will be added as time permits especially where they are absent from my old website
YouTube playlist: Action songs for children – YouTube
**** Words and music by Dany Rosevear
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
Love this song: 💖
Singing games for children website pages:
Action songs and rhymes A
A-dancing we will go
YouTube PDF action song
A fairy came a-dancing
YouTube PDF action song / fairy folk / summer
A fish story Polish
YouTube PDF summer / size
A happy place to be ****
YouTube PDF song for a better world / a circle game
A happy song for a Spring day
YouTube PDF action song / Israel
A jumbo jet
YouTube PDF
A jump, a jump, a jump
YouTube PDF transition bean game
A little rabbit on a hill or hand play
YouTube PDF
A little star / The stars, moon and me
YouTube PDF
A lovely way to start the day new ****
YouTube PDF transition/ friends / circle
A ram sam sam
YouTube PDF Morocco / campfire / round
A squash and a squeeze ****
YouTube PDF for the very young
Ain’t it great to be crazy
YouTube PDF action / circle game
Albuquerque turkey
YouTube PDF Thanksgiving / community / comic
All around the old oak tree ****
YouTube PDF partner game / Autumn
All around the singing well new ****
YouTube PDF choose a partner game
All by myself ****
YouTube PDF action play / dressing
All the little ducks turn upside down
YouTube PDF transition action rhyme
An elephant goes like this and that new
YouTube PDF all creatures / hand play
Ants in their pants ****
YouTube PDF double nos / action / creatures
As I go on my way new ****
YouTube PDF action song / transition
As small as a mouse new
YouTube PDF mice
As swift as a swallow
YouTube PDF
At the bottom of the sea
YouTube PDF Danish
More action songs B
Bend and stretch / Reach for the stars 💖
YouTube PDF schools TV / updated
Bounce the ball
YouTube PDF action game new
Baby bumblebee
YouTube PDF comic / community / insects
Baby ducks
YouTube PDF
Bananas, bananas/Ampar, ampar pisang
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme
Bend to the right side new
YouTube PDF action rhyme
Bend your body
YouTube PDF number / action rhyme
Big red tractor
YouTube PDF harvest / colour / food
Birthday months
YouTube PDF circle / action rhyme
Blow a kiss ****
YouTube PDF better world / action rhyme
Bobbing up and down
YouTube PDF
Bobbing up and down like this
YouTube PDF
Borboletinha / Little butterfly in the kitchen
YouTube PDF Brazil
Bounce the ball
YouTube PDF action game new
Bouncing baby bears
YouTube PDF
Bow to your partner
YouTube PDF
Buddies and pals
YouTube PDF
Build it up
YouTube PDF
Busy bee stop bugging me ****
YouTube PDF summer / action / bugs
Busy, busy, busy, busy ****
YouTube PDF hand play / autumn
Busy little bees ****
YouTube PDF minibeasts / food / summer
More action songs C
Can you hop like a rabbit?
YouTube PDF
Can you jump!
YouTube PDF
Can you walk on two legs?
YouTube PDF
Can you wiggle like a worm?
YouTube PDF
Caterpillar, bye-bye
YouTube PDF
Chee chee chaw / Singin’ in the rain
YouTube PDF
Chest, chest, knee, toe
YouTube PDF
Christmas trees new
YouTube PDF Xmas / Schools TV
Clap, clap, clap your hands new
YouTube PDF action play for the young / transition
Clap your hands and wiggle your fingers
YouTube PDF
Clap your hands, slap your knees
YouTube PDF
Clap your hands with me
YouTube PDF
Climb, climb up Sunshine Mountain
YouTube PDF
Come little leaves 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / colour / seasonal
Come rowing with me
YouTube PDF
Cranes reach up
YouTube PDF
Crows in the cornfield
YouTube PDF Autumnaction play / creatures
Cuddly koalas
YouTube PDF
More action songs D
Dance like snowflakes
YouTube PDF movement
Dandelions yellow
YouTube PDF
Dinosaur, dinosaur shake the ground
YouTube PDF bedtime / action play
Do, do pity my case
YouTube PDF
Do your ears hang low
YouTube PDF comic / action play
Doing the monster stomp
YouTube PDF action game / comic / Halloween
Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky
YouTube PDF
Down by the bay
YouTube PDF Hawaii echo / hand play / comic song
Down in the jungle (Boogie woogie woogie)
YouTube PDF action game / comic songs / wild creatures
Down is the Earth
YouTube PDF
E
Everybody gogo / Chamniamo gogo Kenya
YouTube PDF call and response
Everybody knows I love my toes
YouTube PDF for the very young / action rhyme
More action songs F
Falling snow
YouTube PDF winter poem / movement
Father Abraham
YouTube PDF number / community
First I find a foot new ♪♫
YouTube PDF action play / number / transition
Five enormous dinosaurs
YouTube PDF one less / creatures / finger play /action
Flowers grow new Spring
YouTube PDF
Frosty weather
YouTube PDF Irish circle game
Fly, fly fly
YouTube PDF
Fly little bats / Halloween night is here
YouTube PDF movement / Halloween
Fly, little birdie, fly
YouTube PDF action play / animals
Frogs in yonder pond
YouTube PDF a round / creatures great and small
Frosty weather, snowy weather
YouTube PDF Irish circle / action game
Funny feet new
YouTube PDF
More action songs G
Get moving penguin ****
YouTube PDF winter
Getting up
YouTube PDF poem / hygiene
Go with the flow new ****
YouTube PDF hand play / transition
Great big dinosaurs ****
YouTube PDF movement
More action songs H
Head, shoulders, knees and toes
YouTube PDF transition
Hello song
YouTube PDF transition / colour
Helpful hands ****
YouTube PDF tidying up / transition
Here comes a toad **** new
YouTube PDF friendship / dramatize / amphibians
Here comes the snow new
YouTube PDF winter movement activity
Here we go up, up, up
YouTube PDF baby dandling / for the very young
Hey! Hey! look at me!
YouTube PDF action play
Hop a little, skip a little
YouTube PDF for the very young
Hop little bunnies
YouTube PDF for the very young
Hop, said the grasshopper ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring circle action game
Hot potato pass it on
YouTube PDF rhythm, steady beat / circle game / food
More action songs I
I can be big new
YouTube PDF for the very young / size
I can’t see the wind
YouTube PDF Spring / movement
Icy toes new
YouTube PDF winter / movement / weather
If I were a little flower new
YouTube PDF spring / the very young
If you should meet a crocodile
YouTube PDF a poem
I’m a brave, brave mouse 💖
YouTube PDF Schools TV / call and response
I’m a little chick
YouTube PDF Easter song
I’m a nut
YouTube PDF Autumn / community
I’m a tall, tall tree 💖
YouTube PDF action song for the very young
I’m forever blowing bubbles 💖
YouTube PDF Summer / whistling / partner play
Ipsy dipsy doo dum ****
YouTube PDF for the very young / hygiene
More action songs J
Jack-in-the-box
YouTube PDF hand play
Jackie the sailor
YouTube PDF
Jambo Bwana Kenya new
YouTube PDF Africa / partner song / transition
Jeżyk / Little hedgehog
YouTube PDF Polish action play / Autumn
Jingle clap
YouTube PDF
Johnny, Johnny Jingles
YouTube PDF
Juba
YouTube PDF
Jump in the leaves
YouTube PDF
Jump, jump, jump
YouTube PDF
Jump over the moon
YouTube PDF poem
Jumping Jack jumps new
YouTube PDF bouncing song / finger play / direction
Jumping up and down
YouTube PDF
Jump Jim Joe
YouTube PDF partner / for the very young / circle
Just look how high I’m jumping
YouTube PDF
K
Get moving penguin ****
YouTube PDF winter / action game
Keep those wheels a turning
YouTube PDF
Knees up Mother Brown
YouTube PDF comic / dance / Lavender Lane
Kuma San / Mr. Bear Japan
YouTube PDF
L
La la la la la la la / Tap your nose
YouTube PDF
Let everyone clap hands like me
YouTube PDF
Let’s clap, clap, clap our hands today
YouTube PDF
Little birds, little birds
YouTube PDF
Little bunny hopping new *ER *****
YouTube PDF spring / finger play / the very young
Little hands, little hands
YouTube PDF
Little seed, deep in the ground
YouTube PDF
Little toad
YouTube PDF hibernation / Spring / action play
Lickety spry
YouTube PDF
Little jumping Joan
YouTube PDF
Long-legged sailor
YouTube PDF
Looking for a dinosaur
YouTube PDF
Los pollitos dicen / Hear the little chicks
YouTube PDF Spanish / lullaby / birds
Lots of worms song by Patty Zeitlin
YouTube PDF an action play
Love grows under the wild oak tree
YouTube PDF community song
More action songs M-P
M
Mama don’t allow
YouTube PDF
Maria’s gone folk song / Appalachian line game
YouTube PDF
Mark your steps
YouTube PDF winter /follow my leader /action
Michael row the boat
YouTube PDF
Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac
YouTube PDF
Miss Polly had a dolly
YouTube PDF a song to mime
Mister Green Froggie
YouTube PDF
Moose, monkey, kangaroo
YouTube PDF
Most times I am happy
YouTube PDF **** feelings / number to 100
Move with me
YouTube PDF
Mr. Bullfrog new
YouTube PDFcomic hand or action play
Mr. Jumping Jack Man
YouTube PDF
My dog Rags
YouTube PDF
My red balloon
YouTube PDF
My roots go down Sarah Pirtle 💖
YouTube PDF action song / better world
My ship sailed from China
YouTube PDF action song / community
My thumbs are starting to wiggle
YouTube PDF
My yellow raincoat new
YouTube PDF weather / hand play / colour / clothing
N
Nicky, knacky, knocky, noo
YouTube PDF
‘Neath the spreading chestnut tree
YouTube PDF
O
O, I’m goin’ to sing
YouTube PDF
Oh my, fish in the sky
YouTube PDF
Okki-tokki-unga
YouTube PDF
Old MacDonald had a veggie farm ****
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / very young / harvest
Old Miss Sally
YouTube PDF
Old Missouri had a mule
YouTube PDF
Oliver Twist twist twist
YouTube PDF
On the run new ****
YouTube PDF action song / tempo
One finger, one thumb
YouTube PDF an action game classic
Opposites new
YouTube PDF friendship / dramatize / feelings
P
Peter hammers with one hammer
YouTube PDF number
Pickin’ a spot
YouTube PDF
Pinta la cara del sol / Paint the round face of the sun
YouTube PDFsummer / calendar
Please Mr. Crocodile
YouTube PDF song cupboard / colour / action play / playground
Pumpkin patch new
YouTube PDF Autumn / Halloween / hand play
More action songs R-S
R
Raise your hands above your head
YouTube PDF
Riding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane
YouTube PDF
Rock-a-bye your bear
YouTube PDF
Rolling all around in a boat on the sea
YouTube PDF
Roosters and hens
YouTube PDF question
Roots, trunks, branches
YouTube PDF
Row, boys, row
YouTube PDF
Row, row, row your boat
YouTube PDF partner / lap play / round / for the very young
Row, row to the fishing grounds
YouTube PDF Norwegian
Run like billy-o
YouTube PDF
Run, run, as fast as you can!
YouTube PDF
S
Sailing, sailing over the ocean
YouTube PDF hand play / for the very young
San Toki / Mountain bunny Korean
YouTube PDF
Sarah the whale
YouTube PDF
Say, won’t you come along with me
YouTube PDF
Shake hands Mary
YouTube PDF
Shake, shake the apple tree
YouTube PDF
She waded in the water
YouTube PDF action / comic / community
Show me your right hand
YouTube PDF
Six little frogs
YouTube PDF number / Schools TV / call and response
So silently new
YouTube PDF Winter movement / poem / transition
Sometimes I am a sailor
YouTube PDF
Spaceship to the moon
YouTube PDF
Stop, look and listen
YouTube PDF road safety / hand play
Story time is over
YouTube PDF transition
Sunflower, sunflower standing straight
YouTube PDF
Swim little duck
YouTube PDF
Sun, sun, ba ba e
YouTube PDF Latin American / call and response / bird
Sunday, Sunday, clap, clap, clap
YouTube PDF
More action songs
Th
Tall as a tree
YouTube PDF
The birds in the trees
YouTube PDF Spring / hand play / action
The black cat yawns
YouTube PDF
The crow
YouTube PDF food / harvest / action play / autumn
The earth needs the raindrops
YouTube PDF
The elephant wobbles from
YouTube PDF
The farmer gathers his hay today
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / fruit / mime
The lighthouse song
YouTube PDF
The oak in the acorn
YouTube PDF
The other say I met a bear
YouTube PDF
The prehistoric animal parade
YouTube PDF
The silver thread
YouTube PDF
The snail Devon UK
YouTube PDF action song or hand play
The young squirrel
YouTube PDF Autumn / summer / dramatize
The wise man and the foolish man
YouTube PDF
There was a crocodile
YouTube PDF
There’s a kangaroo jumping new
YouTube PDF transition /very young
There’s a spider on the floor
YouTube PDF
More action songs
T
Tippy tippy tiptoe
YouTube PDF
Today is Monday
YouTube PDF
Tohora nui / The big whale
YouTube PDF action song /New Zealand
Tom saw a sailor
YouTube PDF
Tommy was a baker
YouTube PDF
Tongo Solomon Islands
YouTube PDF call and response
Tony Chestnut
YouTube PDF
Touch your nose, touch your chin
YouTube PDF
Touch your shoulders
YouTube PDF
Tourne, tourne petit moulin
YouTube PDF a French hand play
Tuli-lule
YouTube PDF
Two hoots *****
YouTube PDF action song / better world
Two little boats are on the sea
YouTube PDF
Two little hands
YouTube PDF
Two, two, what are two? Japan
YouTube PDF action song
More action songs U-Z
U
Uncle Jesse
YouTube PDF transition / action / circle game
Up, down, turn around
YouTube PDF
Up I stretch on tippy toe
YouTube PDF
Up in the morning new ****
YouTube PDF
Up the tall white candlestick
YouTube PDF
W
Walk and stop
YouTube PDF
Walk, Daniel
YouTube PDF circle / rhythm / Afro American
Walk to London Town new
YouTube PDF London
Waltzing dolphins **** new
YouTube PDF sea life / movement
Way up in the sky
YouTube PDF
We are woodmen sawing trees
YouTube PDF
We bounce and we bounce new transition
YouTube PDF
We went hunting for a lion new
YouTube PDF Italian / scouting / creatures
Weave a web of sunshine new****
YouTube PDF better world / lullaby / action play / weather
We’ll hop, hop, hop like a bunny hand play
YouTube PDF
We’re five jolly pirates
YouTube PDF
We’re marching in our wellingtons
YouTube PDF
We’re marching to the drum
YouTube PDF
What is an insect?
YouTube PDF
What shall we do on a nice Fall day?
YouTube PDF Autumn/ action play
Wheels keep turning
YouTube PDF
Wiggle and freeze
YouTube PDF
Will you come and walk with me
YouTube PDF
Willow bee (2) new
YouTube PDF a copycat game
Willum he had seven sons
YouTube PDF
Wind ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / Autumn / movement / weather
Wind the bobbin up
YouTube PDF
Winter whispers****
YouTube PDF hand play / movement / winter
Wishi ta doya Native American
YouTube PDF
With my little broom
YouTube PDF movement / spring cleaning
Y
You and me and little flea ****
YouTube PDF transition
You can stamp your feet
YouTube PDF BBC Children’s TV