Children are drawn to creatures of all kinds, nurture that sense of wonder and interest with care …
Humans have an innate affinity to other living beings.
In recent years early educators have recognized this affinity in young children and encourage it in play, nature based environments and activities, outdoor time, stories and song.
This collection will focus on the animals that share our earth and depend on us to ensure their habitats on land, air or sea are fit for their very survival.
My original site: http://www.singinggamesforchildren.com/ has a library of more than 3000 songs, games and rhymes many that fit this category.
Here in this ‘River of song’ collection they will be gathered together alphabetically in named groups.
Some compilations can already be found in my YouTube playlists
YouTube playlists:
Songs about birds – YouTube
Songs about farming and farm animals – YouTube
Frog songs – YouTube
Songs about hedgehogs – YouTube
Minibeasts and creepy crawlies – YouTube
Pets – YouTube
Rabbits and bunnies – YouTube
Squirrel songs – YouTube
Wild things – YouTube
When any collection below on this page reaches the
!MAGIC NUMBER 21! or more it will be rewarded with
a dedicated homepage!
Words and music by Dany Rosevear ****
Love this song: 💖
Animals of all kinds
All things bright and beautiful new 💖
YouTube PDF creatures / community / better world
Be kind to one another **** 💖
YouTube PDF creatures great and small
Big Mistake *****
YouTube PDF creatures / hand play / community / comic song
Down in the jungle (Boogie woogie woogie)
YouTube PDF action game / comic songs / wild creatures
Fish in the seas ****
YouTube PDF creatures / action play / better world / community
Fly, little birdie, fly
YouTube PDF action play / animals
Jumping Jack jumps new
YouTube PDF bouncing song / finger play / direction
Little hamster
YouTube PDF hand play / pet / senses
Look up, look down ****
YouTube PDF new Summer out and about
Mama lend me your pigeon
YouTube PDF summer / calypso / Bahamas / creatures
Our planet is a garden ****
YouTube PDF better world
See, see, see, three birds are in a tree
YouTube PDF hand play / number / Dutch / creatures
Tadpoles and salamanders Marcia Berman
YouTube PDF Spring / creatures great and small
The friendly beasts new
YouTube PDF Xmas / better world
The minibeast parade
YouTube PDF summer / echo action / creatures
There’s a fox in a box
YouTube PDF rhyming verse
There’s a kangaroo jumping new
YouTube PDF action / transition /very young
Treasure the waters of life new ****
YouTube PDF for a better world
Bats
Little bitty bat ****
YouTube PDF hand play / critters / nightime
Birds of a feather
A new collection https://riverofsong.uk/birds-of-a-feather/
Cats
Cats sleep anywhere Eleanor Farjeon 💖
YouTube PDF poem / cats
Five little kittens
YouTube PDF one less / finger play
Gobbolino, the witch’s cat 💖
YouTube PDF Halloween / story song
Magic / The witches cat Patricia Watson
YouTube PDF Halloween / poem / schools TV / cats
Pussy got the measles
YouTube PDF health / Irish / Spring
Pussy cat, pussy cat
YouTube PDF Pets / nursery rhyme / London
Crocodiles and other reptiles
A crocodile swam in the water
YouTube PDF Summer / hand play / creatures
Alligator, alligator long and green
YouTube PDF hand play / creatures
Alligator and frog
YouTube PDF
Alligator one, alligator two
YouTube PDF counting / creatures / rhythmic hand play
How doth the little crocodile Lewis Carroll
YouTube PDF poem / comic hand play
If you should meet a crocodile
YouTube PDF action rhyme
Look at the terrible crocodile 💖
YouTube PDF comic song / hand play
She sailed away on a lovely summer’s day 💖
YouTube PDF community / comic / summer
Dinosaurs
Dinosaur, dinosaur shake the ground
YouTube PDF bedtime / action play
Don’t wake the dinosaurs ****
YouTube PDF circle game / number / creatures
Five enormous dinosaurs new
YouTube PDF one less / creatures / finger play /action
Great big dinosaurs ****
YouTube PDF movement
Dodo
Where did the dodo go? ****
YouTube PDF bird / creatures
Elephants
An elephant goes like this and that new
YouTube PDF action or hand play
If you should meet an elephant
YouTube PDF circle game
Nellie the elephant
YouTube PDF nostalgia / story
The blind men and the elephant
YouTube PDF poem / points of view story
Farm animals
Farmyard fun ****
YouTube PDF animal noises / hand play
Had a little rooster 💖
YouTube PDF community / cumulative / farmyard
Old MacDonald has a farm
YouTube PDF nursery / community / animals/ cumulative
Paul’s little hen
YouTube PDF Norwegian / story / Schools radio
Quand trois poules
YouTube PDF French nursery rhyme / line game
Roosters and hens
YouTube PDF question / very young / farm
The hayride road 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / farm animals
Fish
The sleepy fishes
YouTube PDF summer / fish
The trout / Die Forelle Schubert
YouTube PDF Germany / folk song / BBC Schools radio
Frogs, toads and salamanders
A new collection at:
And other amphibians
YouTube playlist: Frog songs – YouTube
Hedgehogs
Five little birds
YouTube PDF Spring / hedgehogs / finger play
Fox, hedgehog, fly, flea / Odd one out ****
YouTube PDF Creatures / finger play
Good evening, hungry hedgehog **** 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn
Good morning, Mr. Hedgehog
YouTube PDF Winter
Hedgehog “Goodnight!”
YouTube PDF Autumn / four seasons
Hedgehog hibernates ♪♫
YouTube PDF creatures / winter
I’m a little hedgehog new
YouTube PDF Autumn hand play
Jeżyk / Little hedgehog
YouTube PDF Polish action play / Autumn
The hedgehog Edith King
YouTube PDF Autumn / poem / creatures / finger play
The prickly little hedgehog
YouTube PDF hand play / Autumn / poem
Mice and rats
As small as a mouse new
YouTube PDF action song / mice
I’m a brave, brave mouse 💖
YouTube PDF Schools TV / call and response / action song
Mice 💖 ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / hand play / Rose Fyleman
The little Christmas mouse ****
YouTube PDF hand play / seasonal / New Year
Three mice Charlotte Druitt Cole new
YouTubePDF food / number / poem
Minibeasts, bug life and creepy crawlies
Small children are easily interested in small creatures and primary schools in Britain find the study of such animals a good starting point for much of the curriculum. The generic term for these small creatures most often used in British Primary Education is “minibeast”.
“Minibeast” is a term for a variety of arthropods and other invertebrates, including spiders, ants, butterflies, bees, wasps, flies, woodlice, worms and many others.
Invertebrates are animals without backbones and make up the great majority of animal life, with 40,000 species in Britain alone and many millions on Earth.
Moles and other diggers
If you should ever need a hole
YouTube PDF song for a better world / hand play
Penguins
Get moving penguin ****
YouTube PDF winter / action game
I’m a little penguin
YouTube PDF action rhyme / winter
Pingwinek / Dancing penguins
YouTube PDF Polish line dance / winter
Pets
Pets – YouTube
I know a little hamster ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / pet / food
Little hamster
YouTube PDF hand play / pet / senses
Rabbits
Heltery – skeltery ♪♫ new
YouTube PDF poem / harvest / rabbits
Hop little bunnies
YouTube PDF for the very young / action play
I dig my garden, dig, dig, dig
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / rabbit
I’m the Easter bunny
YouTube PDF Easter / Spring / food
John the rabbit
YouTube PDF call and response
Little bunny hopping new *ER *****
YouTube PDF spring / finger play / the very young / action play
Mister Rabbit
YouTube PDF call and response / circle game / folk
My bunny hops all through the garden
YouTube PDF rabbits / steady beat / baby lap play
There’s a little bunny
YouTube PDF Easter / hand play
Squirrels
Autumn treasure ****
YouTube PDF food / Autumn / hand play
Five little squirrels
YouTube PDF Autumn / hand play / number
Squirrel Nutkin
YouTube PDF Autumn poem
The winds they did blow / The squirrel
YouTube PDF Autumn / London / weather
The young squirrel
YouTube PDF Autumn / summer / dramatize
Tigers and lions
This little tiger is very wild
YouTube PDF hand play
We went hunting for a lion
YouTube PDF Italian / scouting / creatures / action
Whales, dolphins and other sea life
The dolphins’ lullaby ****
YouTube PDF summer / better world / empathy / lullaby
Little blue whale
YouTube PDF hygiene / bath or baby play
Moby Dick
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / R.C. Scriven
Octopus can wiggle ****
YouTube PDF summer / number /hand play
Once I saw an octopus
YouTube PDF hand play / summer / number / sea life
The sea sings to me ****
YouTube PDF summer / better world / ocean life
The whale, the whale
YouTube PDF Devon UK / creatures
Tohora nui / The big whale
YouTube PDF action song /New Zealand
Waltzing dolphins **** new
YouTube PDF movement
Whales can’t wink ****
YouTube PDF summer / ocean
Wild things
Ants in their pants ****
YouTube PDF double nos / action / creatures
Down in the jungle (Boogie woogie woogie)
YouTube PDF action game / comic songs / wild creatures
If you’re a monster and you know it
YouTube PDF comic / action play /