Wearing colors

Wearing Colors – action song (to tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)

If you are wearing red, shake your head
If you are wearing red, shake your head
If you are wearing red
Then please shake your head
If you are wearing red, shake your head

If you are wearing blue, touch your shoe…

If you are wearing green, bow to the queen …
If you are wearing yellow, shake like Jell-O …
If you are wearing black, pat your back …
If you are wearing brown, turn around…

Teddy wore his red shirt

Teddy Wore His Red Shirt – rhyme

Teddy wore his red shirt, red shirt, red shirt.

Teddy wore his red shirt all day long.

[repeat with: blue, green, etc. Use children's names.]

Mitten song

Mitten Song – action song (to “Down By The Station”)

Thumb in the thumb place [Give thumbs up with both hands]
Fingers all together [Hold fingers together as in mittens]
This is the song
We sing in mitten weather. [Wave mitten hands]

When it is cold
It doesn’t matter whether [Shrug shoulders]
Mittens are wool [Wave mitten hands]
Or made of finest leather [Close hands]

This is the song
We sing in mitten weather
Thumb in the thumb place [Give thumbs up with both hands]
Fingers all together [Hold fingers together as in mittens]

Lost shoe

The Lost Shoe – lap bounce

Doodley doodley doo [bounce]

The princess lost her shoe

Her highness hopped

The fiddler stopped [stop]

Not knowing what to do!

Jenny Jenkins

Jenny Jenkins – traditional song

Will you wear white, oh my dear, oh my dear
Oh will you wear white, Jennie Jenkins?
No, I won't wear white
For the color's too bright

(Chorus)
I'll buy me a fol-de-roldy-tildy-toddy, seek-a-double, use-a-cause-a-roll-the-find-me
Roll, Jenny Jenkins, roll

(repeat with other colors:)
Blue, the color's too true
Red, it's the color of my head
Black, it's the color of my back
Purple, it's the color of a turkle
Green, for it's a shame to be seen

(end with…
Bare, I’ll cover up with my hair)

Helen Hipsway

Helen Hipsway – action rhyme by Alan Benjamin

Helen Hipsway (wiggle slowly)
Did a dance
She wiggled so much (wiggle faster)
She lost her pants!