Songs and rhymes from and for the Ukraine

These are children’s rhymes and songs that I have either translated into English from their original language or songs written by myself in response to the terrible war continuing in the Ukraine.

Songs by Dany Rosevear ****

Let me know if there are other simple Ukrainian children’s rhymes / songs you would like me to translate and also let me know if my translations varies from the spirit / meaning of the original – mine are rarely literal so they can scan / rhyme / make sense!

All the Ukrainian songs here are now complete with YouTube links and PDFs!

Ukrainian YouTube playlist

Ukrainian songs A-K (link to Singing games for children)

A Ukrainian harvest
YouTube PDF Autumn
Bake the bread
YouTube PDF hand play
Caw, crow, caw
YouTube PDF a hand play
Clap, clap hands
YouTube PDF clapping hand play
Cuckoo, cuckoo, coo coo
YouTube PDF Ukraine / Spring
Dream passes by
YouTube PDF a lullaby
Fish and crayfish dancing
YouTube PDF harvest
Good morning, dear sun
YouTube PDF hand play / transition
Hare wants to sleep
YouTube PDF hand play
Here and there
YouTube PDF hand play / number
I will hang the cradle
YouTube PDF lullaby
Ivan the Great chops firewood
YouTube PDF hand play
Kotikoo, my grey cat
YouTube PDF folk lullaby

Ukrainian songs L-Z

Light a loving candle ****
YouTube PDF better world
Little bean, baked bean
YouTube PDF hand / foot baby play
Little kitty, where have you been?
YouTube PDF nursery rhyme / baby play
Lupin was a piggy wig ****
YouTube PDF better world
Magpie sits on a stove
YouTube PDF
Peace in the family new
YouTube PDF better world
Pigs in the peas
YouTube PDF clapping rhyme
Quiet in the forest
YouTube PDF hand play / Ukraine
Set the little dove free ****
YouTube PDF birds / peace
Sleepy fingers
YouTube PDF hand play
The Hopak new
YouTube PDF Winter / School radio
The house with five floors
YouTube PDF hand play / number
This thumb is granddad
YouTube PDF hand play
This finger went into the forest
YouTube PDF finger play
Tooty tam
YouTube PDF counting / hand play
Two roosters
YouTube PDF
Where is the dove? better world
YouTube PDF ****