Call and response
Circle time
Follow-my-leader songs
Rounds and partner songs
Making music
Songs with a steady beat
Community sing-a-longs
Songs accompanied by whistling
Collaborations
Circle around (games)
Playground games

When any song collection on this page reaches the
!MAGIC NUMBER 21! or more it will be rewarded with
a dedicated homepage! You can find the links in the headings above.

Coming together, chanting, singing or playing has a wonderful effect on the spirits, lifting hearts and is just good fun!

Eventually all these headings will have their own page.

Many of these threads do not have a dedicated place in my previous ‘Singing games for children’ website but are embedded in other categories which, however, are mostly accessible through individual YouTube videos.
Good news! Each of these modules has its own YouTube playlist with links to their home website. All new songs will find a home here.

YouTube playlists:

Call and response songs and rhymes – YouTube
Songs suitable as rounds or partner songs – YouTube
Community sing-alongs – YouTube
Songs accompanied by whistling – YouTube
Collaborations – YouTube
Songs with a steady beat – YouTube
Circle games – YouTube

Circle time

To be developed
A structured time where young children sit together with their teacher and interact taking part in activities such as singing, storytelling, playing games or talking about all sorts of matters.
It is an opportunity to develop social skills such as turn taking, listening and cooperating with each other. It is often at a set time and part of the daily routine to enable learning and encourage a sense of community. It can be used as a transition from one daily activity to the next.

Good morning to you new
YouTube PDF transition

Cumulative

Old MacDonald has a farm
YouTube PDF nursery / community / animals / cumulative

Line games

Maria’s gone folk song / Appalachian line game
YouTube PDF

Playground games

Mitty Matty had a hen
YouTube PDF a counting-out playground chant
Tiny Tim
YouTube PDF nursery favourite / skipping / clapping

Singing games

Wake me! Shake me!
YouTube PDF spiritual / singing game

Songs with a steady beat

Dragon Boat Festival ****new
YouTube PDF summer China steady beat
Four white horses
YouTube PDF Bb & V clapping game
Manuel Road new
YouTube PDF Jamaica / pebble passing circle game
Obwisana
YouTube PDF Ghanaian circle game / steady beat / kindness
Tongo Solomon Islands
YouTube PDF call and response