A season to enjoy for its longer days, warm weather, blue skies, wildlife and nature in all its glory, rock pool dipping, tree climbing, picnics, long walks and lazy days in the sunshine.
The songs, rhymes and poems below will intrigue hearts and minds, encourage children to explore and develop a love for the great outdoors, the world around us and the seasons as they pass.
Find links to Summer festivals, special days and Summer poems:
In the lists below you will find direct links to:
My original home ‘Singing games for children’ Summer collection which include lyrics, sheet music and chords, midi file plus a YouTube link for each song.
This new ‘River of song’ website as it grows will include either a lyrics, sheet music and chords page or a PDF plus a YouTube link to each song.
new indicates a song that can only be found here.
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 the Spring songs and poems that you would appreciate.
**** Words and music by Dany Rosevear.
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
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YouTube playlist:
Summer songs, rhymes and poems
Summer songs A-E
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A crocodile swam in the water
YouTube PDF Summer / hand play / creatures
A fairy came a-dancing
YouTube PDF action song / fairy folk / summer
A fish story Polish
YouTube PDF summer / action play / size
A frog went walking on a summer’s day 🧡
YouTube PDF story / folk song
A little green frog a summer poem
YouTubePDF
A little rabbit on a hill an action rhyme
YouTube PDF
A picnic on the grass
YouTube PDF
A summer lullaby 💖
YouTube PDF summer / lullaby / poem / Eudora S. Bumstead
A swarm of bees
YouTube PDF
A tiny, tiny worm
YouTube PDF a hand play / very young / bugs
Adam in the garden
YouTube PDFnew Trinidad
All around the singing well ****
YouTube PDF partner game
All in my father’s garden / Auprés de ma blonde
YouTube PDF French circle game
An insect jamboree / Butterflies are better bugs ****
YouTube PDF summer / minibeasts
Apusski dusky Swedish
YouTube PDF
Around and round Miss Maggie / On a long summer’s day
YouTube PDF
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Bananas, bananas/Ampar, ampar pisang
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme
Bananas, bananas / Ampar-ampar pisang
YouTube PDF Indonesian nursery rhyme
Banyan tree / Moonshine tonight
YouTube PDF Jamaican folk song / circle game
Beautiful bumble bee
YouTube PDF Summer / insect / handplay
Bee, beautiful bumble bee
YouTube PDF transition / call and response new
Bees in the lavender **** new
YouTube PDF minibeasts / bugs / hand play
Bees! Zum! Zum!
YouTube PDF sounds of summer / bugs
Before the roses come
YouTube PDF
Big bugs, small bugs
YouTube PDF Summer hand play
Blackberries / Berries turned green
YouTube PDF
Blowing bubbles (2)
YouTube PDF number water play / summer / colour
Bugs are neat, bugs are sweet
YouTube PDF Summer hand play
Busy bee stop bugging me ****
YouTube PDF action / bugs
Busy little bees ****
YouTube PDF minibeasts / food / action rhyme
C
Cherry picking
YouTube PDF
Come bright butterfly
YouTube PDF
Come follow
YouTube PDF rounds / follow the leader
Crab is better than man
YouTube PDF Bahamas / summer / community
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Daisy, daisy, open your eye
YouTube PDF poem / summer
Dance with the flowers ****
YouTube PDF summer
Dandelion clocks
YouTube PDF number / summer / finger play
Dandelion clocks (2)
YouTube PDF poem / speech / finger play
Day oh! / The banana boat song
YouTube PDF
Donkey riding
YouTube PDF sea shanty / summer / BBC Schools
Donkey riding – alternative version
YouTube PDF
Donna, Donna
YouTube PDF folk song / peace
Down at the seashore
YouTube PDF Summer / hand play
Down by the bay
YouTube PDF Hawaii echo hand play
Down in the grass, curled up in a heap
YouTube PDF a Summer hand play
Down in the jungle (2) Clap to the beat
YouTube PDF
Dragon Boat Festival ****
YouTube PDF summer steady beat new China
Duck’s ditty Kenneth Grahame
YouTube PDF summer / poem / birds
Summer songs F-H
F
Five little seashells
YouTube PDF
Fiddle de dee! Grasshoppers three
YouTube PDF
Fishing, fishing
YouTube PDF
Five hungry ants
YouTube PDF ‘one less’ / insects/ picnics / hand play
Five little busy bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF ordinal numbers/ insects/ summer / hand play
Flower’s lullaby
YouTube PDF hand play / lullaby
Fly little bird in the golden sun ♪♫
YouTube PDF summer / birds
Free as a bird **** 💖
YouTube PDF community / songs for a better world/ birds
Friends/ Flicker / Looking up through a tree
YouTube PDF new a poem / community
G
Garden fairies Wilhelmina Seegmiller
YouTube PDF summer / poem
Georgina’s garden
YouTube PDF ****
Give me a bucket and spade
YouTube PDF summer
Going down to Devon ****
YouTube PDF summer / number / Devon
Goodbye, everyone ****
YouTube PDF transition / campfire / for the very young
H
Have you ever been a-fishing
YouTube PDF a community sing-along
Hawaiian boat song
YouTube PDF summer / ukulele
Hear the great green waves
YouTube PDF action play / percussion / summer
Hello bubble
YouTube PDF
Hello, ladybug
YouTube PDF
Here are the beehives
YouTube PDF number hand play / summer
Here is a seashell ****
YouTube PDF a hand play
Here is the sea a hand play
YouTube PDF
Honeybee, honeybee
YouTube PDF
How does a caterpillar go?
YouTube PDF Spring action play / Schools TV
How doth the little busy bee Isaac Watts
YouTube PDF poem / minibeasts / summer / better world
How pleasant to sit on the beach
YouTube PDF
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry / There’s work to be done
YouTube PDF transition / campfire song
Hush, baby, hush new
YouTube PDF a lullaby
Summer songs I-N
I
I do like to be beside the seaside
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane
To the moon and back new ****
YouTube PDF lullaby / the very young
I love to go a-wandering / The happy wanderer
YouTube PDF community / German / Summer / BBC Schools
I went to the beach
YouTube PDF
I will plant a garden green summer / action
YouTube PDF
If a bee is buzzing round you ****
YouTube PDF safety / insects/ summer / hand play
If you should meet an elephant
YouTube PDF circle game
I’m a tall, tall sunflower
YouTube PDF summer / action play
I’m forever blowing bubbles
YouTube PDF whistling / partner / waterplay
In a milkweed cradle new
YouTube PDF weather / late summer hand play
In my little garden bed / The little plant Emilie Poulssen
YouTube PDF summer / hand play
In the sunny meadow
YouTube PDF Summer / French / birds
Island in the sun
YouTube PDF summer / Jamaica / community /
It’s awesome outside ****
YouTube PDF community / summer / natural world
John the rabbit
YouTube PDF call and response
Keep your sunny side up
YouTube PDF summer / Lavender Lane / for a better world
Lazy and warm
YouTube PDF summer / baby / action
Lily pond
YouTube PDF
Linstead Market Jamaica
YouTube PDF
Listen to the bee’s hum new
YouTube PDF
Little ant nibbled at my hand
YouTube PDF
Little bees ♪♫
YouTube PDF Summer hand play / creatures / food
Little bird, little bird (fly through my window)
YouTube PDF bird / circle game
Little bird up in a tree
YouTube PDF
Little blue whale
YouTube PDF hygiene / bath or baby play
Look up, look down ****
YouTube PDF new Summer out and about
Lullaby for a little bee **** 💖
YouTube PDF a summer lullaby / minibeasts / transition
M
Mama lend me your pigeon
YouTube PDF summer / calypso / Bahamas / creatures
Marianina new
YouTube PDF Italian folk song / Summer / Schools radio / weather
Messing about on the river new
YouTube PDF nostalgia / boats
Miss Mary Ann
YouTube PDF West Indies
Moby Dick
YouTube PDF Summer / whale / poem / R.C. Scriven
Moon on the meadow
YouTube PDF
Monkey and the tiger
YouTube PDF
Mr. Moon, Mr. Moon / Cuckoo! 💖
YouTube PDF birds / partner song
My big blue boat
YouTube PDF
My shadow
YouTube PDF
My shadow (2)
YouTube
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Nature carol
YouTube PDF Phillipines / harvest / Christmas /Schools radio TV
Nine little tailors
YouTube PDF
Now is the cool of the day Summer
YouTube PDF Summer / better world / weather
Summer songs O-S
O
Octopus can wiggle ****
YouTube PDF hand play / number / sea life
Oh, Mister Sun
YouTube PDF Summer / whistling
Oh, oh, the sunshine
YouTube PDF
Oh what a beautiful morning
YouTube PDF Summer / Lavender Lane / whistling
Old Chang the Crab
YouTube PDF
On the sand
YouTube PDF summer / action
On the seashore new ****
YouTube PDF Summer / handplay
Once I saw an octopus
YouTube PDF hand play /number / sea life
One bubble, two bubbles ♪♫
YouTube PDF hand play / number
One potato, two potato
YouTube PDF new number garden song
One potato (2)
YouTube PDF a circle number game
Over in the meadow
YouTube PDF number
P
Paintbox or Cauliflower fluffy
YouTube PDF Autumn / colour / food
Pickin’ up sand
YouTube PDF Alabama / tidying / summer
Picnic tea David Harmer
YouTube PDF Summer / poem / minibeasts
Pinta la cara del sol / Paint the round face of the sun
YouTube PDF Columbian / colour / action rhyme
Play on the seashore
YouTube PDF
Pleasant and delightful
YouTube PDF folk / birds / community / summer
R
Riding on a donkey
YouTube PDF
Ring, ring my bicycle
YouTube PDF Indonesian
Rock gently sailboat Israel lullaby
YouTube PDF
Rockpool safari **** seaside I-Spy
YouTube PDF
Roll with the waves
YouTube PDF
Rose in June
YouTube PDF folk / summer
Round the corner, Sally new
YouTube PDF shanty / community / folk / call and response
Run little crab
YouTube PDF hand play / summer /
S
Scraping up sand (Shiloh)
YouTube PDF
Sea fairies Eileen Mathias ♪♫
YouTube PDF Summer / fairies / dance / poem / whistling
Seagull, seagull sit on the shore
YouTube PDF a partner song 💖
Seagull, seagull sit on the shore (2)
YouTube PDF a hand play
Seashell, seashell
YouTube PDF
Seaside fun
YouTube PDF
Seaside fun (2)
YouTube PDF
Shadows go round
YouTube PDF
Shake the papaya down
YouTube PDF
She sailed away on a lovely summer’s day 💖
YouTube PDF community / comic / summer
She sells seashells
YouTube PDF tempo / summer / tongue twister
She waded in the water
YouTube PDF action / comic / community
She’ll be coming round the mountain
YouTube PDF action / summer / community
Shore
YouTube PDF
Sing a song of buttercups
YouTube PDF new Summer hand play
Sing a song of sunshine
YouTube PDF weather / better world / hand play
Snails lunch ****
YouTube PDF new hand play or action game
Somewhere there’s a forest
YouTube PDF better world / camping / Schools TV
Song of the bugs ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem
Spirit of the summertime / Song poem
YouTube PDF new William Allingham
Sponge fishing
YouTube PDF Greek
Spread out a picnic ****
YouTube PDF creatures / food
Stars of the summer night
YouTube PDF poem / summer / lullaby
Summer, goodbye!
YouTube PDF Autumn /Summer / German
Summer is here
YouTube PDF
Summer sunset
YouTube PDF
Summertime 💖
YouTube PDF summer / lullaby / nostalgia
Sun on the water ****
YouTube PDF Summer / weather
Sunbeams and shadows ****
YouTube PDF
Summer songs T-W
T
Teddy and me new ****
YouTube PDF number to 10 / for the very young
The bees in the flowers
YouTube PDF summer hand / action play / minibeasts
The bees’ party
YouTube PDF Summer / minibeasts / picnic
The big sunflower
YouTube PDF happiness / hand play / summer / better world
The cuckoo is a pretty bird
YouTube PDF
The dandelion and the child
YouTube PDF
The dolphins’ lullaby ****
YouTube PDF summer / better world / empathy / lullaby
I love to go a-wandering / The happy wanderer
YouTube PDF community / German / Summer / BBC Schools
The gardener plants the seeds new
YouTube PDF Summer / food / handplay
The lighthouse
YouTube PDF
The little gardener
YouTube PDF
The minibeast parade 🧡
YouTube PDF echo action / creatures
The sailor’s alphabet new
YouTube PDF summer / folk song
The sea sings to me ****
YouTube PDF better world / ocean life
The shape of water
YouTube PDF
The shell Eveline Dare
YouTube PDF poem / handplay / summer
The silver wheat new
YouTube PDF Autumn / Schools radio / love
The sleepy fishes
YouTube PDF summer / fish
The Slithery Dee
YouTube PDF
The sun has got his hat on
YouTube PDF Summer / weather
The teddy bears’ picnic 🧡
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane
The water fairies
YouTube PDF BBC Schools radio
The waves on the sea
YouTube PDF Summer hand play
The young squirrel
YouTube PDF Autumn / summer / dramatize
T-Z
There are big waves and little waves Eleanor Farjeon
YouTube PDF poem / summer / colour
There I was just a-swimming in the sea
YouTube PDF a community sing-along
There’s a tiny caterpillar
YouTube PDF Summer 🧡
There was a bee-i-ee-i-ee
YouTube PDF a community sing-along
There was a little turtle
YouTube PDF
There’s an upside to each downside new
YouTube PDF Autumn / colour / songs for a better world
Three jellyfish 💖
YouTube PDF number / summer / hand play
Tirra-lirra-lirra
YouTube PDF seasonal / birds / circle dance
To the moon and back new ****
YouTube PDF lullaby / the very young
Tommy and the apples
YouTube PDF
U
Under the water ****
YouTube PDF songs for a better world / summer
W
Walking through the jungle action rhyme
YouTube PDF
Water ♪♫ JR Crossland
YouTube PDF poem / science / summer
Way over in the blooming garden
YouTube PDF Summer / flowers / circle game
We have planted in our garden
YouTube PDF Czech BBC Radio for Schools
We sail and we sail and we stop!
YouTube PDF
Whales can’t wink ****
YouTube PDF
What is an insect?
YouTube PDF science / hand play / bugs
When friends have to say goodbye
YouTube PDF transition / community / friendship
When the sun shines bright ****
YouTube PDF new health / community
Where my feet go
YouTube PDF poem summer seasonal
Wild mountain thyme Ireland Scotland
YouTube PDF
Winding the Maypole
YouTube PDF celebration
Worms, snails and slugs *****
YouTube PDF Summer / hand play / minibeasts
Z
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
YouTube PDF Summer / community / birds
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