And other classic singing games

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Why are singing games important?

• circle games are such great fun
• young children are helped to develop memory, social and listening skills and so much more
• a break of physical activity allows children to expend energy in readiness to concentrate on quieter pursuits
• gross motor skills and coordination are developed
• a lovely sense of belonging to a group is formed
• they can boost a child’s confidence
• children’s brains are exposed to sounds, rhythms, and rhymes, building blocks for reading, poetry and music
• children are introduced to many different cultures and traditions

Singing games for children

Circle games are at the core of my ‘Singing games for children’ website where there is a large dedicated collection but there are also some that remain embedded in other categories.
Many, many of these games will need to be transferred and allocated to this and other collections. All new circle games will be added here , circle games from other categories and those that are faulty will take precedence when moving from SGFC.
Happily my YouTube playlist for Circle singing games for children gathers most of them together for you to enjoy.

YouTube playlist: Circle singing games for children – YouTube

In the lists below you can find lyrics, sheet music and chords plus a YouTube link to each song /rhyme.
More games will be added as time permits especially where they are absent from my old website.
Let me know if I need to give priority to ones you would appreciate.

Circle games

A circle of friends **** new 🕊️
YouTube PDF circle game / empathy / songs for a better world
A happy place to be ****
YouTube PDF song for a better world / action game
A flea went hopping
YouTube PDF follow my leader
A lovely way to start the day new ****
YouTube PDF transition/ friends / action
Ain’t it great to be crazy
YouTube PDF action / circle game
Ali Baba’s farm
YouTube PDF Turkish circle game
All around the daffodils new
YouTube PDF Spring circle game
All around the singing well new ****
YouTube PDF choose a partner game
Alouette
YouTube PDF French/Canadian call and response / round / bird
Ants in their pants ****
YouTube PDF double nos / creatures
Apple and blackberry pie ****
YouTube PDF Autumn harvest / food
Bassez down
YouTube PDF French Creole? circle dance
Banyan tree / Moonshine tonight
YouTube PDF Jamaican folk song / circle game
Bee baw babbity Scottish
YouTube PDF circle game / baby dandling
Bee, beautiful bumble bee
YouTube PDF summer call / transition / call and response new
Birthday months
YouTube PDF circle / action rhyme
Birthday song game
YouTube PDF South African game
Bonjour mes amis
YouTube PDF Cajun round / transition
Bow, wow, wow
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme
Busy, busy, busy, busy ****
YouTube PDF action / hand play / autumn
Come and join us new
YouTube PDF circle game / transition
Dancing daffodils ****
YouTube PDF Spring circle
Dear friends ****
YouTube PDF Spring / songs for a better world / circle game
Don’t wake the dinosaurs ****
YouTube PDF number
Dry bones come skipping
YouTube PDF Halloween / steady beat
Fairy rings ♪♫
YouTube PDF Autumn / action / fairies / circle
Fire child dance 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / wassail / circle
Five spooky skeletons
YouTube PDF number / Halloween / circle
Fly like an eagle Native American 💖
YouTube PDF circle game / call and response
Frosty weather, snowy weather
YouTube PDF Irish circle / action game
Funga Alafia
YouTube PDF West African call and response
Giro, giro tondo
YouTube PDF new Italian circle game
Good morning, good morning new Cameroon
YouTube PDF transition / greeting game
Good morning to you new
YouTube PDF transition
Good morning little yellow bird / Who are you?
YouTube PDF transition / call and response / circle name game
Here comes Halloween Fun ****
YouTube PDF Halloween circle game
Here we come a piping
YouTube PDF late Spring / line game
Here we go round the Maypole high
YouTube PDF circle game / seasonal
Here we go round the mulberry bush
YouTube PDF circle game
Hickety tickety bumble-bee 💖
YouTube PDF transition / for the very young / circle
Hop, said the grasshopper
YouTube PDF Spring circle action game
Hot potato pass it on
YouTube PDF rhythm, steady beat / circle game / food
Hymn for the Russian earth 🕊️ 💖
YouTube PDF round / circle dance / Russian folk song
I am a jolly leprechaun
YouTube PDF Spring / Irish
I don’t care if the rain comes down 🧡
YouTube PDF circle game / weather
I sent a letter to my love
YouTube PDF circle / St Valentine’s Day
I’m a big bright star on a Christmas tree
YouTube PDF a circle miming game
In a castle fine Trinidad and Tobago
YouTube PDF Caribbean circle game / call and response
It ain’t gonna rain no more
YouTube PDF comic / circle game
It’s Lady Spring
YouTube PDF Spring / circle game
It’s time for us to go ****
You Tube PDF transition / for the very young
Jane and Louisa Jamaica
YouTube PDF circle / waltz
Jump Jim Joe
YouTube PDF partner /action / circle
Knees up Mary Muffet
YouTube PDF playground ring game
Kololeoko
YouTube PDF West African clapping game
Little angel all alone ****
YouTube PDF story / circle / Nativity
Little bird, little bird (fly through my window)
YouTube PDF bird / circle game
Manuel Road new
YouTube PDF Jamaica / pebble passing game
Mother Earth, Mother Earth
YouTube PDF seasonal / Autumn
Old Roger is dead
YouTube PDF Autumn circle game
One little bluebird
YouTube PDF birds
Pass the pebble on
YouTube PDF Ghana / pebble passing game
Planting beans
YouTube PDF circle game / plants / parts of body
Round and round the apple tree
YouTube PDF Autumn circle game
Rosy apple, lemon and a pear
YouTube PDF Autumn circle game
Round and round and round we go
YouTube PDF circle game
Round and round the haystack new
YouTube PDF tickle rhyme for baby
Sally go round the sun
YouTube PDF playground game
Sansa krona / Little hawk new
YouTube PDF Ghana / steady beat / bird
See the little sandy girl
YouTube PDF classic circle game / better world
Spread happiness around ****
YouTube PDF better world / empathy / circle
The posy rhyme
YouTube PDF Somerset / circle game / seasonal
The three little pigs
YouTube PDF number / story
Three mockin’ birds
YouTube PDF community / circle game
Time to get clapping
YouTube PDF kindergarten circle dance
Tirra-lirra-lirra
YouTube PDF seasonal / birds / circle dance
Uno, dos y tres One, two and three new
YouTube PDF Mexican  circle count to ten
Üsküdar
YouTube PDF Turkish circle game
Walk, Daniel
YouTube PDF rhythm / action / Afro American
Way over in the blooming garden
YouTube PDF Summer / flowers / circle game
We are going down the numbers
YouTube PDF Nigerian counting back
We circle around / Long wing feathers
YouTube PDF Arapaho Sioux chant / call and response
We’re so glad you are here
YouTube PDF transition / circle game / affirmation
Where, oh, where, the lion new
YouTube PDF pebble passing / steady beat / call and response
While walking in the woods
YouTube PDF circle game /whistling / late Spring / May
Will you be a friend of mine?
YouTube PDF Valentine’s Day
Wind, wind sugar baby
YouTube PDF hand play

Other classic singing games

Here we go gathering nuts in May
YouTube PDF late Spring / classic line game