The Seasons are in tune with the rhythm of the natural world, one season flowing into the other, each with its own wonderful gifts. These yearly changes bring Festivals, gatherings, traditions and merriment in all parts of the globe. There is a comfort, a knowing, an anticipation of what comes next in how we celebrate these changes; reflection, poetry, music, dance and song all play their part. The cycle of time, the moon, weather and nature connects us powerfully to each other, the Earth and all its flora and fauna.

At present most of my seasonal songs can be found on my original web site: http://www.singinggamesforchildren.com/
I now have published dedicated starter pages for all four seasons.
Autumn, Winter Spring and Summer.
As the year goes round I will continue to update each collection.
All new seasonal songs can only be found on this River of song website.

Some festivals and celebrations can be found throughout my original website (see immediately below) but I have already begun to add some dedicated celebrations and holidays to this page:

Website pages: 

Autumn / Harvest A-E, B-D, F-J, L-S, T, U-Z

Wassails

Halloween A-H, I-M, O-S, T-W

Festivals: Chinese New Year C, D-H, J-O, / Valentines Day D-H, / Shrove Tuesday D-H, J-O, P-So, / Sakura P-So / May Day C,/

Winter A-F, G-H, I, J-L, M-O, P-T, U-Z

Christmas / Thanksgiving A-E, F-J, K-N, O-R, S, T-Z

Spring / Easter / A-B, C, D-H, I, J-O, P-So, Sp-Sw, T, U-Z

Summer A-E, F-H, I-N, O-S, T-The, T-Z

You can also find seasonal songs on my YouTube topic Playlists

Autumn / Harvest

Wassails

Halloween

Winter

Christmas / Thanksgiving

Festivals

Spring
Easter

Easter

Summer

**** Words and music by Dany Rosevear.
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
Love this song: 💖

Songs for four seasons

Autumn goodbye
YouTube PDF German
Be happy, be happy, today
YouTube PDF birds / better world
Country life / I like to rise
YouTube PDF seasonal folk song
Come little leaves 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / colour / seasonal
Happy days! ****
YouTube PDF hand play / seasonal
Harvest new
YouTube PDF poem / school assembly
Hedgehog “Goodnight!”
YouTube PDF four seasons
I love the flowers 💖
YouTube PDF Spring / round
I’m a tall, tall tree 💖
YouTube PDF action song for the very young
Just a tiny seed new
YouTube PDF Seasonal / hand play
Little bird, little bird, flap your wings *****
YouTube PDF Seasonal / hand play
Little sparrow ****
YouTube PDF birds / seasonal
One candle, one light ****
YouTube PDF festivals / number / hand play
One kind word 💖
YouTube PDF song for a better world / seasonal
Little lambs Eleanor Farjeon
YouTube PDF a poem / seasonal
Primrose Lane *****
YouTube PDF Spring /seasonal
Pumpkin
YouTube PDF Seasonal / handplay / transition
Round go the seasons ****
YouTube PDF Seasonal
The fairy ring
YouTube PDF Seasonal circle game
The garden year Sara Coleridge
YouTube PDF seasonal / poem
The miller’s song
YouTube PDF Bagpuss BBC TV
The posy rhyme
YouTube PDF Somerset / circle game / seasonal
Tirra-lirra-lirra
YouTube PDF seasonal / birds / circle dance
Treasure in my pocket new ****
YouTube PDF Autumn hand play
Under the harvest moon / Autumn comes
YouTube PDF Autumn PDF
Where my feet go
YouTube PDF poem / summer
Where there’s music new
YouTube PDF better world / community

Birthday celebrations

Happy birthday
YouTube PDF Tom Chapin version / community

Festivals and celebrations

New Year

Follow the path of kindness ****
YouTube PDF community / New Year
Here we come a-wassailing (1)
YouTube PDF
Here we come a-wassailing (2)
YouTube PDF
New Year carol
YouTube PDF Welsh / seasonal
The moon shines bright
YouTube PDF assembly / new year / better world
The little Christmas mouse ****
YouTube PDF hand play / seasonal / New Year

Chinese New Year

Enjoy children’s songs, traditional or written recently to celebrate this festival, some that people of Chinese heritage sing all over the world.

Find many of these songs on my YouTube Asian playlist:
Songs and Rhymes from Asia – YouTube

Chinese Dragon Song
YouTube PDF New Year
Chinese New Year Dragon / Let’s wave and say “Ni hao.”
YouTube PDF
Dragon of a thousand lanterns 
YouTube PDF BBCTV Schools / New Year
Fukien Bay boat song
YouTube PDF
Going to town
YouTube PDF
Gōng xǐ gōng xǐ New Year
YouTube PDF
Goodbye old year
YouTube PDF Chinese New Year
Ladybug, ladybug hand play
YouTube PDF
Lion dance song
YouTube PDF
Little mousie hand play  
YouTube PDF
Little silver moon
YouTube PDF lullaby
Lychee China white sea
YouTube PDF
North Eastern cradle song
YouTube PDF lullaby
Ode to a goose new  hand play
YouTube PDF
Old Chang the crab a hand play 
YouTube PDF
Purple bamboo
YouTube PDF
Sampan a poem
YouTube PDF
See the dragon dance and prance
YouTube PDF
Song of the dragon
YouTube PDF
Three frogs
YouTube PDF
Treading the water wheel
YouTube PDF
Two little tigers / Liăng Zhī Lăo Hŭ
YouTube PDF number hand play
Yat yih sam a Cantonese counting song 
YouTube PDF

Diwali

Diwali is here
YouTube PDF food / autumn
Diwali is here again
YouTube PDF calendar
Little lamps are shining bright
YouTube PDF Diwali

Easter / Good Friday

An egg for Easter
YouTube PDF a Spring poem
Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken 💖
YouTube PDF Spring / Lavender Lane
Easter bunny a hand play
YouTube PDF
Easter bunny comes at night / Easter eggs new
YouTube PDF Easter / hand play / colour
Easter bunny’s basket newa hand play
YouTube PDF
Easter eggs are rolling number hand play
YouTube PDF
Five brown eggs in a nest of hay
YouTube PDF Easter / subtraction / colour
Five warm eggs
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / Easter / number
Hey! Little hen!
YouTube PDF Spring / Easter / Lavender Lane
Hot cross buns
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / round
I had a little chicken
YouTube PDF comic campfire song
I’m a little chick
YouTube PDF Easter action song
I’m the Easter bunny
YouTube PDF Easter / Spring / food
In this little egg
YouTube PDF Easter / Spring / hand play
Little bunny hopping new *ER *****
YouTube PDF spring / finger / action play
My Easter bonnet
YouTube PDF
Oh, my hen
YouTube PDF round / Easter
Pace-egging song
YouTube PDF Easter wassail / Spring
Ten fluffy chickens ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / Easter / number / hand play
The chicken or the egg **** new
YouTube PDF Easter / Spring / farm animals
There’s a little bunny
YouTube PDF Easter / hand play
This little bunny finger play
YouTube PDF

May Day

Cornish May song
YouTube PDF Cornish Helston Flora Day May 8th 2025
Good morning lords and ladies
YouTube PDF Wassailing / late Spring / calendar
Hal-an-tow
YouTube PDF Late Spring Cornish
Here we go gathering nuts in May
YouTube PDF late Spring / classic line game
Here’s a branch of snowy May / Maypole song
YouTube PDF
May Day in the morning
YouTube PDF Late Spring / Seasonal
The first of May
YouTube PDF Spring / French / steady beat / BBC schools radio
The May Day carol
YouTube PDF Wassailing / late Spring / calendar
Winding the Maypole
YouTube PDF Late Spring / Seasonal

Pancake Day Shrove Tuesday

Five crispy pancakes
YouTube PDF
I’m a little pancake **** a hand play
YouTube PDF
Mix a pancake
YouTube PDF
One little pancake a number / finger play
YouTube PDF
Pancake Day
YouTube PDF
Pop a little pancake
YouTube PDF
Shrove Tuesday
YouTube PDF
Someone’s making pancakes
YouTube PDF
Tippety, tippety tin
YouTube PDF West Somerset pancake rhyme

Saint Valentine’s Day

Love, kindness and sharing – YouTube

A bushel and a peck
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane / lullaby
A happy hug and kiss ****
YouTube PDF Spring
By the light of the silvery moon
YouTube PDF
Dear friends ****
YouTube PDF Spring / songs for a better world / circle game
Happy hearts ****
YouTube PDF a hand play
How many Valentines?
YouTube PDF number / hand play
I sent a letter to my love
YouTube PDF circle game
Love grows one by one song by Carol Johnson 💖
YouTube PDF Community / numbers / better world
Love somebody, yes I do
YouTube PDF Valentine’s Day
Plaisir d’amour new French folk song
YouTube PDF
Skinamarinky dinky dink 💖
YouTube PDF St Valentines day / Lavender Lane / hand play
Tell me why the stars do shine a lullaby
YouTube PDF
There’s someone who loves you ****
YouTube PDF
When love comes knocking new ****
YouTube PDF Spring / better world
Will you be a friend of mine?
YouTube PDF circle game

Find more songs of love on my:

Love, Kindness and Sharing playlist

Irish songs for Saint Patrick’s Day

Find songs about leprechauns, shamrocks and many other Irish songs to celebrate at this time.

Harvest time

A song of bread
YouTube PDF food / harvest
A Ukrainian harvest
YouTube PDF Ukraine
Apple and blackberry pie ****
YouTube PDF harvest / food
Apple picking new
YouTube PDF number hand play
Autumn’s harvest / finger fun ****
YouTube PDF number / hand play
Big harvest moon
YouTube PDF Autumn / hand play / lullaby
Big red tractor
YouTube PDF harvest / colour / action / food
Bringing in the hay
YouTube PDF Autumn
Crows in the cornfield
YouTube PDF harvest / birds
For the golden corn
YouTube PDF Thanksgiving / food
Golden is the garden ♪♫ 💖
YouTube PDF colour / Autumn
Harvest new Lydia A. Coonley
YouTube PDF seasonal / school assembly
Harvest time Florence Mary Hoatson
YouTube PDF Autumn
John Barleycorn
YouTube PDF folk song / Autumn
Little Red Hen’s Song
YouTube PDF autumn
Old MacDonald had a veggie farm ****
YouTube PDF community / very young / action / harvest
Paintbox or Cauliflower fluffy 💖
YouTube PDF school assembly / colour
The country farmer’s vainglory / Harvest home
YouTube PDF
The farmer gathers his hay today
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / fruit
The harvest
YouTube PDF poem
The hayride road
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / farm animals
The Little Red Hen
YouTube PDF story song / Autumn
The loaf of bread
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / food
The miller’s song
YouTube PDF Bagpuss BBC TV
The silver wheat new
YouTube PDF Summer / Schools radio / love
Under the harvest moon / Autumn comes
YouTube PDF Seasonal
What have you brought for harvest time
YouTube PDF Autumn / food

Wassails

… and other traditional door to door songs

A carol for Christmas Eve
YouTube PDF
Fire child dance
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / circle
Gloucestershire Wassail
YouTube PDF
Here we come-a-wassailing (1)
YouTube PDF
Here we come-a-wassailing (2)
YouTube PDF
New Year carol
YouTube PDF Welsh / seasonal
Pace-egging song
YouTube PDF Easter wassail / Spring
Singing so well
YouTube PDF
Souling song (2)
YouTube PDF Halloween / community
The Gower wassail
YouTube PDF
The May Day carol
YouTube PDF Wassailing / late Spring / calendar
The wren song new
YouTube PDF Xmas / Winter / Irish
We wish you a Merry Christmas
YouTube PDF
West Cornwall wassail
YouTube Alan Rosevear sings
We’ve come a-cob-coaling 💖
YouTube PDF Wassailing / late Autumn

Eid

Joyful Eid new
YouTube PDF

Hanukkah

Hanukkah Latkes new
YouTube PDF winter festival
Hanukkah, Hanukkah
YouTube PDF Jewish festival of light
One little candle
YouTube PDF Hannukah / winter / number

Holi / Diwali

Diwali is here again new
YouTube PDF calendar / winter
Dum, dum, dum, Holi has come
YouTube PDF colour
Little lamps are burning bright
YouTube PDF calendar