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/