Tickle, rocking, dandling and knee bouncing rhymes for babies and young children
“Singsong speech is critical for babies learning language” The Guardian Saturday 2nd 2023.
Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, say scientists | Language | The Guardian
Parents should talk and sing to their babies as much as possible or use infant-directed speech like nursery rhymes because it will make a difference to language outcome.”
Find more knee bouncing songs and games at:
For the very young | River of song
Find lullabies for your baby / young child at:
Lullabies | River of song
At present this is still just a taster page but with full links to my original Singing games for children site.
YouTube playlist:
Games to play with babies and toddlers – YouTube
Knee bouncing songs for babies and toddlers – YouTube
Singing games for children website pages:
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. Let me know if I need to give priority to music that you would appreciate. In the meantime use the links taking you to Singing Games for Children.
**** Words and music by Dany Rosevear
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
Love this song: 💖
Games to play with baby A-P
A baby’s way
YouTube PDF lap play / for the very young
A little green frog in a pond
YouTube PDF hand play
A tickle for your toes
YouTube PDF
Acka backa soda cracker new
YouTube PDF
After my bath new
YouTube PDF hygiene / poem
Baby-bye (2)
YouTube PDF
Baby’s shoes
YouTube PDF
Batti batti le manine new
Batti batti le manine
YouTube PDF Italian clapping hand play
Bears, bears, everywhere!
YouTube PDF
Bee baw babbity Scottish
YouTube PDF circle game / baby dandling
Big toe, tall toe
YouTube PDF
Chip, chip my little horse Irish 💖
YouTube PDF knee bouncing
Chop, chop, choppity chop ♪♫
YouTube PDF food / Halloween / baby play
Clap your tiny hands
YouTube PDF Xmas / lullaby / Jamaica
Cobbler, cobbler mend my shoe
Come my little darling 💖 **
YouTube PDF baby dandling / fairies
Criss-cross applesauce
YouTube PDF
Dance, dance baby
YouTube PDF lullaby
Dance, little baby, dance up high
YouTube PDF
Dobbin, Dobbin – a lap play
YouTube PDF
Dormy, dormy, dormouse
YouTube PDF
Eyes, nose, cheeky, cheeky chin
YouTube PDF
Finding an egg
YouTube PDF Spanish baby finger play / tickle
Here comes a little mouse
YouTube PDF
Here we go down, down daisy
YouTube PDF lap play / for the very young / lullaby
Here we go up, up, up
YouTube PDF baby dandling / for the very young
Here’s a ball for the baby
YouTube PDF
How many days has my baby to play?
YouTube PDF
I found a little ladybird
YouTube PDF
Inchworm inching along new
YouTube PDF minibeast / hand play
Knock at the door
YouTube PDF
Little bean, baked bean
YouTube PDF Ukranian hand / foot play
Little blue whale
YouTube PDF hygiene / summer / bath or baby play
Little kitty, where have you been?
YouTube PDF Ukrainian nursery rhyme
Mama’s little baby loves dancing
YouTube PDF
Mix and stir and pat in the pan
YouTube PDF
Obadiah do
YouTube PDF a rocking song for baby
On my toe there is a flea
YouTube PDF
Peek-a-boo baby
YouTube PDF baby play / lullaby
Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo
YouTube PDF
Pitty patty polt
YouTube PDF
Playing with baby
YouTube PDF baby play
Put a spot over here
YouTube PDF colour / hand / baby play
Games to play with baby S-Z
Roly poly caterpillar
YouTube PDF hand play
Round and round the garden
YouTube PDF tickle rhyme for baby
Round and round the haystack new
YouTube PDF tickle rhyme for baby
Sailing, sailing
YouTube PDF
See my little hammer
YouTube PDF
See saw Margery Daw
YouTube PDF pair game / steady beat / for the very young / nursery rhyme
See the little mousie
YouTube PDF tickle rhyme for baby
Shake your jingle bells
YouTube PDF
She didn’t dance, dance, dance Irish
YouTube PDF
Slowly, slowly, very slowly
YouTube PDF
Stretch up high
YouTube PDF
That’s the way the baby grows ♪♫
YouTube PDF number / hand / baby play
The moon is round
YouTube PDF face play
This little baby
YouTube PDF
This little cow eats grass
YouTube PDF
This little froggy
YouTube PDF
This little froggy (2)
YouTube PDF
This little piggy went to market
YouTube PDF
This little wind blows silver rain
YouTube PDF
Tickle toes **** new
YouTube PDF number
Wake up little fingers
YouTube PDF
Where, oh where are baby’s fingers?
YouTube PDF
Who is the bees knees?
YouTube PDF
Whoops Tommy!
YouTube PDF
Wishing star ♪♫
YouTube PDF a lullaby for the very young
Up, up, up to baby’s nose
YouTube PDF