Why are number rhymes and songs important?

Counting songs and rhymes provide the foundation for crucial numeracy skills and awareness.
With simple tunes just like nursery rhymes, they enable young children to practice early mathematical skills in a relaxed, enjoyable way. 
They are lots of fun!
Not only do they help develop a wide range of mathematical skills while singing, they also support language development, social, emotional and listening skills. What’s not to like!

Encourage children to use their finger while singing as this will help them link numbers with quantity.
Start early when they are babies and you give them a gift for life.

At present this is just a starter page but now has full links to my original
Singing games for children site and YouTube playlists.

Nursery number favourites:

To 3 A-There,  T-Z 
To 5 A-F, F Little,  More F,  G-Z
To 10 A-N, O-Z,  T-Z 
To 100

YouTube playlists:
Number songs to three – YouTube
Number songs to five – YouTube
Number songs to ten – YouTube
Number songs to 100 – YouTube

In the lists below you will soon find links to:
‘River of song’ PDF pages for each song which includes lyrics, sheet music and chords and how to play.
There will also be a YouTube link to each song.

More links 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 music that you would appreciate. In the meantime use the links above taking you to Singing Games for Children and YouTube playlists.
new indicates the song is only available on this website.
**** Words and music by Dany Rosevear
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add

Nursery number songs and rhymes to 3

A
Alligator one, alligator two
YouTube PDF counting / creatures / rhythmic hand play
B
Bate, bate chocolate new
YouTube PDF Mexico / counting / hand play
Bend your body
YouTube PDF number / action rhyme
Billy Pringle
YouTube PDF
C
I see a duck
YouTube PDF
D
Fishing song
YouTube PDF

H
Here and there
YouTube PDF Ukraine / hand play / number
Here’s a leaf new
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / number to 2
How many Valentines?
YouTube PDF Valentine’s Day / Spring / hand play
M
My hat it has three corners
YouTube PDF
N

O
Once there were three cats
YouTube PDF
One, two, three, hairy bears I see
YouTube PDF
P
Q
Quand trois poules
YouTube PDF French nursery rhyme / line game
S
See, see, see, three birds are in a tree
YouTube PDF
T
The birdies’ breakfast new
YouTube PDF winter / poem / birds
The farmer’s apple tree
YouTube PDF
The farmer’s geese
YouTube PDF
The three little pigs
YouTube PDF circle game / story
There were two birds sat on a stone
YouTube PDF
Three little angels
YouTube PDF
Three jellyfish
YouTube PDF
T continued
Three blind mice
YouTube PDF
Three Craws
YouTube PDF Scottish / birds / hand play
Three crows
YouTube PDF
Three dinosaurs came out to play
YouTube PDF
Three little birds
YouTube PDF
Three little fish
YouTube PDF
Three little fishes 🧡
YouTube PDF number / Lavender Lane / BBC Children’s radio
Three little kittens
YouTube PDF
Three little owls
YouTube PDF
Three little pigs and a little pig more
YouTube PDF
Three little raindrops
YouTube PDF weather / number / hand play
Three mice Charlotte Druitt Cole new
YouTubePDF food / number / poem
Three pirates came to London town
YouTube PDF schools TV / London
Three young rats
YouTube PDF
Tooty tam
YouTube PDF Ukraine / hand play
Twinkle, twinkle, traffic lights
YouTube PDF
Two little eyes
YouTube PDF
Two little eyes that blink, blink, blink
YouTube PDF
Two little goslings
YouTube PDF number / hand play
Two little hands new
YouTube PDF hand play / number / very young
Two little tigers / Liăng Zhī Lăo Hŭ
YouTube PDF Chinese hand play
W
Way up high in the apple tree
YouTube PDF Autumn / hand play
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears
YouTube PDF Story

Nursery number songs and rhymes to 5

B
Barnacle Bill
YouTube PDF
Blackbird singing
YouTube PDF
Blowing bubbles
YouTube PDF
E
Easter eggs are rolling number hand play
YouTube PDF
F
Farmer Brown’s farm
YouTube PDF
Five Autumn leaves
YouTube PDF Autumn / hand play / weather / one less
Five baby crocuses / Getting up
YouTube PDF
Five bold pirates
YouTube PDF
Five brown eggs in a nest of hay
YouTube PDF Easter / subtraction / colour
Five crispy pancakes Spring song
YouTube PDF
Five currant buns in a baker’s shop
YouTube PDF number / finger play / food
Five enormous dinosaursnew
YouTube PDF one less / creatures / finger play /action
Five in the bed
YouTube PDF
Five firefighters
YouTube PDF
Five green leprechauns new Irish song
YouTube PDF
Five happy little narwhals
YouTube PDF
Five hungry ants
YouTube PDF ‘one less’ / insects/ summer picnics / hand play
Five little angels
YouTube PDF
Five little busy bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF ordinal numbers/ insects/ summer / hand play
Five little candles
YouTube PDF
Five little caterpillars
YouTube PDF
Five little chickadees
YouTube PDF
Five little chickens
YouTube PDF
Five little ducks
YouTube PDF
Five little Easter rabbits
YouTube PDF

Nursery number songs and rhymes to 5

Five little field mice
YouTube PDF
Five little fingers
YouTube PDF
Five little fish swimming in a pool
YouTube PDF
Five little fishes
YouTube PDF
Five little fishes (2)
YouTube PDF one less number
Five little friends
YouTube PDF
Five little friends in a flying saucer
YouTube PDF number / space
Five little gingerbread men in a row
YouTube PDF
Five little gingerbread men lying on a tray
YouTube PDF
Five little goslings ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / number / hand play
Five little icicles Winter / Finger play
YouTube PDF
Five little jingle bells
YouTube PDF Xmas line play
Five little kittens
YouTube PDF one less / creatures
Five little leaves
YouTube PDF ‘one less’ hand play / Autumn
Five little leprechauns subtraction
YouTube PDF
Five little men made out of snow
YouTube PDF One less / Winter finger play
Five little mice on the pantry floor
YouTube PDF
Five little monkeys bouncing on the bed
YouTube PDF
Five little monkeys swinging in a tree
YouTube PDF
Five little monkeys walked along the shore
YouTube PDF
Five little owls on a moonlit night
YouTube PDF
Five little piggies
YouTube PDF
Five little piggies (2)
YouTube PDF
Five little reindeer / Santa’s reindeer
YouTube PDF number bonds to eight / Xmas
Five little robins on a sycamore tree
YouTube PDF
Five little seashells
YouTube PDF
Five little shamrocks
YouTube PDF Irish / colour
Five little speckled frogs
YouTube PDF one less / Spring
Five little teddy bears
YouTube PDF
Five little snowflakes
YouTube PDF one less / Winter dance
Five little snowmen
YouTube PDF Winter
Five little snowmen fat
YouTube PDF Winter
Five little tadpoles Spring
YouTube PDF
Five little turkeys Christmas / Thanksgiving
YouTube PDF
Five little worms on the garden lawn
YouTube PDF

Nursery number songs and rhymes to 5

F
Five lovely snowflakes ****
YouTube PDF winter / number hand play / weather
Five old crows
YouTube PDF
Five pigs so squeaky clean
YouTube PDF
Five plump peas
YouTube PDF
Five shiny conkers
YouTube PDF hand play / Autumn
Five shooting stars
YouTube PDF
Five snow angels ****
YouTube PDF winter weather / Count away / one less
Five spooky skeletons
YouTube PDF number / Halloween / circle
Five Spring flowers
YouTube PDF
Five warm eggs
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / Easter / number
Four robins
YouTube PDF
Four scarlet berries
YouTube PDF
Four seeds in a hole
YouTube PDF
Frogs new
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / China / number to 4
Going down to Devon ****
YouTube PDF summer / number / Devon
Here are the beehives
YouTube PDF number hand play / summer

Nursery number songs and rhymes to 5

H
Here are the beehives
YouTube PDF
Hicketty picketty buttercup
YouTube PDF

Hickety tickety new
YouTube PDF hand play / number bonds
L
Little chickens on the ground
YouTube PDF Spring number hand play
Love grows one by one song by Carol Johnson 💖
YouTube PDF Community / numbers / better world
O
One elephant went out to play
YouTube PDF
One little cockerel
YouTube PDF
One little daffodil ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / number / finger play
One little finger standing on its own
YouTube PDF
One little pancake
YouTube PDF a number / finger play / food
One potato (2)
YouTube PDF new a circle game
Only a boy named David
YouTube PDF
Old John Braddle-um
YouTube PDF
Old Molly Metcalfe Swaledale UK
YouTube PDF new
P
Paddle little ducks
YouTube PDF
Peter hammers with one hammer
YouTube PDF action play
Poor Jane Higgins / A pig tale
YouTube PDF
Puppies and kittens
YouTube PDF
S
Sailor, sailor on the sea
YouTube PDF
T
Teasing Mr. Shark
YouTube PDF
That’s the way the baby grows ♪♫
YouTube PDF number / hand / baby play
The house with five floors
YouTube PDF hand play / Ukraine
There were two wrens upon a tree
YouTube PDF
This little bunny finger play
YouTube PDF
Tired bunnies
YouTube PDF
Two little tigers / Liăng Zhī Lăo Hŭ
YouTube PDF hand play
Two, two, what are two? Japan
YouTube PDF action song / number
W
Where are the baby mice?
YouTube PDF
X
Zoom, zoom, zoom
YouTube PDF lap or action play / number / very young

Nursery number songs and rhymes to ten

A
A happy green crocodile
YouTube PDF
A mosquito one
YouTube PDF
A Spring visit to the farm
YouTube PDF
Ants in their pants ****
YouTube PDF double nos / action / creatures
Apple picking new
YouTube PDF Autumn hand play
Are you going to golf sir? 💖
YouTube PDF call and response / counting to 10
Around the moon we go *****
YouTube PDF space travel / hand play / countdown
Autumn’s harvest / finger fun ****
YouTube PDF number / hand play
B
Bedtime finger fun new ****
YouTube PDF
Bees come buzzing from the hive
YouTube PDF
Blackfriars
YouTube PDF
C
Caribbean counting rhyme
YouTube PDF poem
Charlie’s apple tree
YouTube PDF
Counting song
YouTube PDF
D
Dandelion clocks
YouTube PDF number / summer / finger play
Don’t wake the dinosaurs ****
YouTube PDF circle game
Dumplins call and response / Jamaica
YouTube PDF
F
Father Abraham
YouTube PDF action play / community
Farmer Brown had ten green apples
YouTube PDF
First I find a foot new ♪♫
YouTube PDF action play / number / transition
G
Gath’ring the eggs
YouTube PDF
Good morning Mrs. Hen
YouTube PDF
H
Hallowe’en counting rhyme
YouTube PDF number
Happy hands
YouTube PDF
Here comes the bus
YouTube PDF
Hickety pickety
YouTube PDF
I
I have five fingers on each hand
YouTube PDF
I went up the apple tree
YouTube PDF
I’m going to build a chimney pot
YouTube PDF
I’ve got sixpence
YouTube PDF
I’ve got ten little fingers
YouTube PDF
J
Jack Jintle
YouTube PDF
M
Market day
YouTube PDF
Mother Duck’s ducklings
YouTube PDF
N
Nine little planets
YouTube PDF number / space

Nursery number songs and rhymes to ten

O
Old Davy Jones
YouTube PDF
On my right hand what do I see?
YouTube PDF
Once I caught a fish alive!
YouTube PDF hand play
Once I saw an octopus
YouTube PDF hand play / summer / sea life
One and one, it’s a mountain
YouTube PDF hand play / double numbers
One bottle pop! 💖
YouTube PDF better world / hand play / round
One bubble, two bubbles
YouTube PDF
One candle, one light ****
YouTube PDF festivals / hand play
One duck, two ducks
YouTube PDF
One for sorrow, two for joy ♪♫
YouTube PDF birds / poem
One little bluebird
YouTube PDF circle game / double numbers
One little brown bird
YouTube PDF
One little candle
YouTube PDF Hannukah / winter / number
One man shall mow my meadow
YouTube PDF Autumn
One man went to mow
YouTube PDF
One potato, two potato
YouTube PDF new summer / food / garden
One, two, kittens that mew
YouTube PDF
Over in the meadow
YouTube PDF Summer
S
Sammy’s mango tree
YouTube PDF new Carribean rhyme
Seven little pigs went to market
YouTube PDF
Six ghosts lurking
YouTube PDF
Six little acorns ****
YouTube PDF subtraction / Autumn
Six little ducks
YouTube PDF
Six little frogs
YouTube PDF Schools TV / call and response / action song
Six little kittens
YouTube PDF colour / hand play / number
Six little mice 💖
YouTube PDF number / hand play / poem
Six little pigs
YouTube PDF hand play / number
Spanish counting song
YouTube PDF

Nursery number songs and rhymes to ten

T
Teddy and me *** new
YouTube PDF
Ten fat sausages
YouTube PDF
Ten fat turkeys
YouTube PDF
Ten fluffy chickens ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / Easter / number / hand play
Ten galloping horses
YouTube PDF
Ten in the bed
YouTube PDF
Ten little bubbles
YouTube PDF
Ten little chickies
YouTube PDF Spring / number / hand play
Ten little fairies
YouTube PDF number / hand play ♪♫
Ten little goblins
YouTube PDF number / hand play ♪♫
Ten little pumpkins
YouTube PDF
Ten little tadpoles Rose Fyleman 💖 ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / number / poem
Ten red apples new
YouTube

PDF Autumn / finger play / colour
Ten small fingers
YouTube PDF
Ten yellow chicks
YouTube PDF
The angel band
YouTube PDF Christmas / number / spiritual
The ants go marching
YouTube PDF
These two rabbits
YouTube PDF
To ten and back new ****
YouTube PDF counting / finger play
Twig by twig **** 💖
YouTube PDF a Spring hand play / birds / counting
Two little chickens
YouTube PDF
U
Under a web
YouTube PDF
Uno, dos, tres Spanish
YouTube PDF
Uno, dos y tres One, two and three new
YouTube PDF Mexican  circle count to ten
W
Who gives a hoot? ****
YouTube PDF
Yat Yih Sam Cantonese
YouTube PDF

Number songs and rhymes to 100

Ants in their pants ****
YouTube PDF double nos / action / creatures
Can you count?
YouTube PDF
Counting apple seeds
YouTube PDF
Eat an apple, save the core
YouTube PDF number / food / finger play
Floating down the river
YouTube PDF
Four in a boat
YouTube PDF
Here comes the little centipede
YouTube PDF
Hundreds of stars / Only one mother
YouTube PDF
Inchworm
YouTube PDF BBC radio /doubling / Lavender Lane/ bugs
Lean daddy longlegs
YouTube PDF
One two buckle my shoe
YouTube PDF
The appleman
YouTube PDF
The centipede song
YouTube PDF
The little witch / Morgens früh um sechs / In the morning at six
YouTube PDF German nursery rhyme new
Three frogs Chinese
YouTube PDF
We are going down the numbers
YouTube PDF Nigerian counting back / circle game
We’ll all go down the meadow
YouTube PDF