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What is the purpose of story songs for children?

• Music is a great way to get children involved in stories.
• Stories and music together encourage children to love reading
• Children learn language, improve memory, and develop listening skills through repetition and catchy melodies.
• Music and stories can resonate with children, capture their imagination and allow them to express their feelings and emotions.
• Story songs can have a positive impact as something that is fun, engaging and magical.

More songs will be added as time permits for many are tucked away in corners of this ‘River of song’ website and over at my original home ‘Singing games for children’ Find others here:
YouTube playlist: Story songs – YouTube

!MAGIC NUMBER 21! or more this section has been rewarded with its own dedicated homepage! The original homepage is Song cupboard, a collection of many varied topics and genre.

Story songs

Love this song: 🧡
Words and music by Dany Rosevear ****

A fish story Polish
YouTube PDF summer / action play / size
A frog he would a-wooing go
YouTube PDF folk song / BBC Schools radio
Babes in the wood 💖
YouTube PDFstory song
Bread and fishes / Wind in the willows
YouTube PDF
Gobbolino, the witch’s cat 💖
YouTube PDF story song
Hansel and Gretel
YouTube PDF Halloween / story
Here comes a toad **** new
YouTube PDF friendship / dramatize / amphibians
Here comes the sandman
YouTube PDF lullaby
(The) Huron carol
YouTube PDF ST Autumn 1984
In a dark, dark wood
YouTube PDF a Halloween story
Keyman, keyman
YouTube PDF Jamaica / story song
Little angel all alone ****
YouTube PDF story / circle / Nativity
Long time ago / Kitty and mousie
YouTube PDF
Lulabelle a comic hand play
YouTube PDF
Miss Polly had a dolly
YouTube PDF a song to mime
Nellie the elephant
YouTube PDF nostalgia / story
Open the window, Noah
YouTube PDF
Paul’s little hen
YouTube PDF Norwegian / Farmyard / Schools radio
Saint George and the dragon ****
YouTube PDF community / songs for a better world
The adventures of Isabel Ogden Nash
YouTube PDF poem
The blind men and the elephant
YouTube PDF poem / points of view story
The bundle of sticks ****
YouTube PDF better world / community
The Little Red Hen
YouTube PDF Autumn
The Owl and the Pussycat
YouTube PDF Edward Lear poem / BBC Children’s radio / Lavender Lane
The teddy bears’ picnic 🧡
YouTube PDF BBC radio Children’s favourites / summer
The three little pigs
YouTube PDF circle game / story
The young squirrel
YouTube PDF Autumn / summer / dramatize
Tortoise and the Hare / Usagi to Kame
YouTube PDF Japan
She sat ‘neath the lilacs
YouTube PDFcommunity / comic song
When daddy fell into the pond
YouTube PDF poem
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears number to 3
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane
Who killed Cock Robin?
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme
Widdicombe fair Devon UK
YouTube PDF