And more nursery favourites

Some of these have disappeared from my original site on ‘Singing games for children’ and need to be replaced.

Why are nursery rhymes so important for the growing child?

Nursery rhymes have so much to offer in promoting language skills and social interactions for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Repetition, patterns, rhyming, memorizing, concentration all help the developing brain
But most of all they are fun; little story-telling jewels to develop the mind and imagination!
Singing or chanting a nursery rhyme is also a great way to distract a child and lift their spirits when they are feeling grumpy.
****Recent research, a study that forms part of the BabyRhythm project led by Prof Usha Goswami suggests Singsong speech is critical for babies learning language “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”

Nursery rhymes may well be from another century but they have stood the test of time and their worth is valued by any parent, teacher and others who interact with the young child.
They can also be a foundation for learning to read.
“As child I loved nursery rhymes and still remember ‘The house that Jack built’. At the age of four I was given ‘The Ladybird book of Nursery rhymes’, many were nursery rhymes I knew well already and was soon able to make a link between the sounds of the words and the printed word on the page.
It wasn’t long before I became an avid reader!”
Dany Rosevear

At present this is just a taster page but with full links to nursery rhymes on my original Singing games for children site.

YouTube playlist: (2) Nursery rhymes – YouTube Here you can also find rhymes that are located in other collections.

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 below taking you to Singing Games for Children.

Classic nursery rhymes

Just nursery rhymes A-I
A
All in the dumps
YouTube PDF
Alphabet song, forwards and backwards
YouTube PDF
B
Baa baa black sheep
YouTube PDF
Bow, wow, wow
YouTube PDF circle game
C
Cackle, cackle, Mother Goose
YouTube PDF
Cocks crow in the morning
YouTube PDF
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
YouTube PDF
D
Dog jumps through the window
YouTube PDF Czech weather
Ding dong bell
YouTube PDF
F
Four and twenty tailors
YouTube PDF
G
Georgie Porgie
YouTube PDF
Girls and boys come out to play
YouTube PDF
Goosey, goosey gander
YouTube PDF
H
Hey diddle diddle
YouTube PDF
Hickory dickory dock
YouTube PDF
Higglety pigglety, pop!
YouTube PDF
Humpty Dumpty
YouTube PDF health
Humpty Dumpty went to the loo
YouTube PDF hygiene / transition / hand play
I
I had a little cow
YouTube PDF an old nursery rhyme
I had a little hen
YouTube PDF
I love little pussy
YouTube PDF
If all the world were paper
YouTube PDF
I’m a little teapot
YouTube PDF
Incy Wincy spider
YouTube PDF

Just nursery rhymes J-P
J
Jack and Jill
YouTube PDF
Jack Sprat
YouTube PDF
L
Ladybird, ladybird
YouTube PDF
Lavender’s blue
YouTube PDF colour
Little Bo Peep
YouTube PDF
Little Boy Blue
YouTube PDF
Little Jack Horner
YouTube PDF
Little King Pippin
YouTube PDF
Little Miss Muffet
YouTube PDF
M
Mary had a little lamb
YouTube PDF
Mary, Mary quite contrary
YouTube PDF
Mitty Matty had a hen
YouTube PDF
Mother Goose lullaby
YouTube PDF new
N
Jolly red nose
YouTube PDF winter / round
O
Old King Cole
YouTube PDF
Old Mother Hubbard
YouTube PDF
On Saturday night I lost my wife
YouTube PDF
Once I caught a fish alive! number rhyme
YouTube PDF
P
Pease pudding hot
YouTube PDF
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater
YouTube PDF
Pit, pat, well-a-day
YouTube PDF
Playing with baby new
YouTube PDF baby play
Polly put the kettle on
YouTube PDF
Poor old Robinson Crusoe!
YouTube PDF
Pussy cat, pussy cat
YouTube PDF Pets / London
Q
Quand trois poules
YouTube PDF French nursery rhyme / line game

Just nursery rhymes S-W
S
Saint Paul’s steeple
YouTube PDF London / apples
Simple Simon
YouTube PDF
Sing, sing, what shall I sing?
YouTube PDF
T
The lion and the unicorn
YouTube PDF
The old woman who lived in a shoe
YouTube PDF
There was a crooked man
YouTube PDF
There was an old woman lived under the stairs
YouTube PDF
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
YouTube PDF
This is the House that Jack built
YouTube PDF
Three men in a tub
YouTube PDF
Tom, he was a piper’s son
YouTube PDF
W
Waltz round the moon ****
YouTube PDF lullaby / music
Wee Willie Winkie
YouTube PDF
Willie Foster had a coo
YouTube PDF Scottish
Who killed Cock Robin?
YouTube PDF

More nursery favourites

Missing from my Singing games for children site will try to replace them soon:
Games galore in Gryphon’s Garden

“Croak!” said the toad
YouTube PDF Spring / nursery rhyme / bugs
Diddle diddle dumpling
YouTube PDF
Down at the station
YouTube PDF
Jack in the box
YouTube PDF
Johnny get your hair cut
YouTube PDF
Little hand all well again
YouTube PDF health / nursery rhyme / handplay
Miss Polly had a dolly
YouTube PDF a song to mime
Teddy bear, teddy bear
YouTube PDF
The wheels on the bus
YouTube PDF
What shall we do when we all go out?
YouTube PDF