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”.
In other places such as the U.S.A. “Bugs” is the common term.
“Minibeast / bug” 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.
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 small creatures that share our earth and depend on us to ensure their habitats on land, air or sea are fit for their very survival.
Make a mini meadow in your home or school garden to ensure the wellbeing of our beautiful butterflies.
This collection from its ‘River of song’ home Creatures great and small has grown without trying.
It has hopped, buzzed, wiggled, slithered, crawled or flown way past the !MAGIC NUMBER 21! target for achieving its own page.
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 over time be gathered together alphabetically in one home.
You can find many more songs about small creatures at Singing games for children especially in the ‘Song Cupboard’ collection – Eventually they will all moved to their new home here, each with a PDF.
A compilation of most minibeast can already be found in my YouTube playlists:
YouTube playlist: Minibeasts and creepy crawlies – YouTube
Words and music by Dany Rosevear ****
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
Love this song: 🧡
Find more small creatures songs here: Summer days | River of song
Contents
It’s a minibeast and bug world
A flea went hopping
YouTube PDF follow my leader / circle game
A fuzzy little caterpillar hand play
YouTube PDF
A tiny, tiny worm
YouTube PDF a hand play / very young
An insect jamboree / Butterflies are better bugs ****
YouTube PDF summer / minibeasts
Ants in their pants ****
YouTube PDF double nos / action
Big bugs, small bugs
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / hand play
Borboletinha / Little butterfly in the kitchen
YouTube PDF Brazil
Bugs are neat, bugs are sweet
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / hand play
Busy little ants ♪♫
YouTube PDF minibeasts / poem
Caterpillar new
YouTube PDF a Spring poem Christina Rossetti
Caterpillar, caterpillar
YouTube PDF Spring hand play
Caterpillars and butterflies
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / colour
Caterpillars only crawl
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / children’s BBCTV
“Croak!” said the toad
YouTube PDF Spring / nursery rhyme / bugs
Daisy, Daisy/She was one of the early birds 🧡
YouTube PDF music hall / worm / Lavender Lane
Five hungry ants
YouTube PDF ‘one less’ / summer / picnics / hand play
Fly, fly, butterfly fly
YouTube PDF Spring hand play
Here are the beehives
YouTube PDF number hand play / summer
Here comes the little centipede ****
YouTube PDF 100+ / line game / bugs
Honey spread on brown brown bread
YouTube PDF bees / Czech / food
Hop, said the grasshopper
YouTube PDF Spring circle action game
How does a caterpillar go?
YouTube PDF Spring action play / Schools T
I spin and spin my chrysalis an action play
YouTube PDF
In a milkweed cradle new
YouTube PDF weather / late summer hand play
Inchworm
YouTube PDF BBC radio /doubling numbers / Lavender Lane/ bugs
Inchworm inching along new
YouTube PDF minibeast / hand and baby toddler play
Ladybug, ladybug
YouTube PDF Chinese / finger play / minibeasts
Lots of worms song by Patty Zeitlin
YouTube PDF an action play
Picnic tea David Harmer
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / minibeasts
Roly poly caterpillar
YouTube PDF baby and hand play
See the little caterpillar ****
YouTube PDF Spring hand play
Slowly, slowly, very slowly
YouTube PDF a tickle rhyme
Snails lunch ****
YouTube PDF new hand play or action game
Song of the bugs ♪♫
YouTube PDF summer poem
Spread out a picnic ****
YouTube PDF Summer / food
Spring song / As I sat on the hillside
YouTube PDF birds / German
Tell me little spider / A lesson ♪♫
YouTube PDF better world / hand play
The bees in the flowers
YouTube PDF summer hand / action play / minibeasts
The busy little worm
YouTube PDF hand play / bugs
The butterfly song
YouTube PDF Spring
The centipede song
YouTube PDF 100+ / line game / bugs
The early bird new ****
YouTube PDF worms / handplay
The friendly little worm ****
YouTube PDF bird / hand play / action
The Halloweeny spider new
YouTubePDF Halloween hand play
The minibeast parade 🧡
YouTube PDF echo action / creatures
The snail Devon UK
YouTube PDF action song or hand play
The worm song 🧡
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane / School’s TV
There’s a tiny caterpillar
YouTube PDF Summer 🧡
There ain’t no bugs on me
YouTube PDF community / insects etc. / comic songs
Thousand legged worm / The centipede song
YouTube PDF community / comic / hand play / number / call and response action follow my leader
Waken sleeping butterfly new
YouTube PDF new life / hand play / minibeasts
What is an insect?
YouTube PDF science / hand play / bugs
Worms, snails and slugs *****
YouTube PDF Summer / hand play / minibeasts
Busy bees
Summer is here and the bees are out and about. Here they swarm together from other pages of this website, honey for the soul, humming away in unison.
A swarm of bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF
Baby bumblebee
YouTube PDF action game / comic / community
Beautiful bumble bee
YouTube PDF Summer / insect / handplay
Bee, beautiful bumble bee
YouTube PDF transition new
Bees in the lavender ****
YouTube PDF Summer / minibeasts / bugs / hand play
Bees! Zum! Zum!
YouTube PDF sounds of summer
Busy bee stop bugging me ****
YouTube PDF summer / action / bugs
Busy little bees ****
YouTube PDF food / action rhyme / summer
Five little busy bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF ordinal numbers/ insects/ summer / hand play
Hickety tickety bumble-bee 💖
YouTube PDF transition / for the very young / circle
Honeybee, honeybee
YouTube PDF summer
How doth the little busy bee Isaac Watts
YouTube PDF poem / minibeasts / summer / better world
If a bee is buzzing round you ****
YouTube PDF safety / insects/ summer / hand play
Little bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF Summer hand play / creatures / food
Listen to the bee’s song
YouTube PDF
Lullaby for a little bee **** 💖
YouTube PDF a summer lullaby / minibeasts / transition
Says the bee song by Malvina Reynolds
YouTube PDF minibeasts
Spring is here said the bumble bee
YouTube PDF bees / Spring / fairies
The bees in the flowers
YouTube PDF summer hand / action play / minibeasts
The bees’ party
YouTube PDF Summer / picnic
There was a bee-i-ee-i-ee
YouTube PDF a community sing-along