Nursery rhymes and songs

Nursery rhymes and songs help develop language skills as well as physical development and numeracy and are an essential part of pre-school education.

Action songs and rhymes

Many songs and rhymes have a physical component.

• Wind the Bobbin Up
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• I'm a Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
• If You're Happy and You Know it
• Sleeping Bunnies
• Ring around the Rosie
• Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
• Two Little Dickie Birds
• The Grand Old Duke of York
• Do the Hokey Pokey
• Trit Trot to Boston
• Tommy Thumb / Daddy Finger
• Wheels on the Bus
• Pat-a-Cake
• I'm a Little Teapot
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider
• One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
• Round and Round the Garden
• What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor

Numeracy rhymes and counting

Many songs involve counting up and down. These songs can help your child become comfortable with counting.

• Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
• One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive
• Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day
• Five Fat Sausages Sizzling in a Pan
• Bell Horses
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, We're Going to the Moon
• Five Little Speckled Frogs

Other classic rhymes and songs

• Humpty Dumpty
• Yankee Doodle Went to Town
• Old McDonald Had a Farm
• Hey Diddle, Diddle
• My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
• You Are My Sunshine