This Little Cow – finger count
This little cow eats grass
This little cow eats hay
This little cow drinks water
This little cow runs away
And this little cow does nothing
but lie and sleep all day!
A warehouse of 250+ fingerplays, rhymes, action songs, bounces, tickles, and more... for anyone working with young children. By Rhona Campbell, MLS. (Audio/video clips intended as examples - sing 'em to kids yourself!)
This Little Cow – finger count
This little cow eats grass
This little cow eats hay
This little cow drinks water
This little cow runs away
And this little cow does nothing
but lie and sleep all day!
Pigs – fingerplay
Two mother pigs lived in a pen [thumbs]
Each had four babies and that made ten [fingers]
These four babies were black and white [one hand]
And these four babies were up all night [other hand]
All eight babies loved to play [wiggle]
And the rolled and they rolled in the mud all day! [roll hands]
Los Pollitos – Spanish song
Los pollitos dicen, “pío, pío, pío”
Cuando tienen hambre
Cuando tienen frío
La gallina busca
El maíz y el trigo
Les da la comida
Y les presta abrigo
Acurrucaditos
Bajo las dos alas
Hasta el otro día
Duermen los pollitos
(rough translation: The little chicks say "pio pio pio" when they're hungry, when they're cold. The hen looks for corn and wheat. She gives them food and comfort. Cuddled up under her two wings, the little chicks sleep until the next day.)
Little Boy Blue – nursery rhyme
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn
The cow’s in the meadow, the sheep’s in the corn
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack, fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I!
For if I do, he’s sure to cry.
La granja – Spanish song
Vengan a ver mi granja que es hermosa
Vengan a ver mi granja que es Hermosa
El patito hace así, cuá, cuá [x2]
Oh vengan amigos, vengan amigos, vengan amigos, vengan [x2]
El pollito – pío, pío
La vaquita – mú, mú
El puercito – oinc oinc
El burrito – íja, íja
El gallito – kirikiri kí
If You’re a Chicken and you know it – song (to tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”
If you’re a chicken and you know it say “Cluck cluck” [2xs]
If you’re a chicken and you know it
Then you really ought to show it
If you’re a chicken and you know it say “Cluck cluck”
[Repeat with other barnyard animals]
Higgelty Piggelty – nursery rhyme
Higgelty piggelty, my black hen
She lays eggs for the gentlemen
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay.
Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush - song
Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush, mulberry bush, mulberry bush
Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning
This is the way we sweep the porch…
Feed the chicks…
Paint the barn…
Milk the cow…
Five little Pigs – song (to “Five Little Ducks")
Five little pigs rolled in the mud
Squishy, squashy, felt so good.
The farmer took one piggy out.
"Oink, Oink, oink," the pig did shout!
[Continue with four, three so forth, then...]
No little pigs rolled in the mud.
They all looked so clean and good.
The farmer turned his back and then,
Those pigs rolled in the mud again.
Fiddle-i-fee – traditional song
I had a cat and the cat pleased me
I fed my cat under yonder tree
And the cat went, “fiddle-i-fee”
I had a hen and the hen pleased me…
And the hen went “chippy choppy”
And the cat went “fiddle-i-fee”
duck… “quack quack”…
goose… “hiss hiss”…
sheep… “baa baa”…
pig… “oink oink”…
cow… “moo moo”…
dog… “bark bark”…
The Farmer in the Dell – traditional song
The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell
Heigh ho the dairy-o, the farmer in the dell
The farmer takes a wife…
The wife has a child…
The child takes a nurse…
The nurse takes a cat…
The cat takes a mouse…
The mouse takes some cheese…
The cheese stands alone…
Chickies Stop and Go – rhyme
Nice little gray horse stops to look below
Neigh, neigh, peep, peep
Watch the chickies go!
Nice little brown cow stops to say hello
Moo, moo…
Nice little white sheep standing in a row
Baa baa…
Nice little pink pig wiggles to and fro
Oink, oink…
Nice big red rooster with a comb on top
Cluck cluck Peep, peep
See the chickies stop!
(This is also an easy flannelboard!)
B-I-N-G-O – traditional song
There was a farmer who had a dog
And Bingo was his name-o
B-I-N-G-O [x3]
And Bingo was his name-o
There was a farmer who had a dog
And Bingo was his name-o
☼-I-N-G-O [clap on ☼, x3]
And Bingo was his name-o
There was a farmer who had a dog
And Bingo was his name-o
☼-☼-N-G-O [clap on ☼, x3]
And Bingo was his name-o
Etc.
Barnyard Song – song to tune of “If You’re Happy and you Know It”
If you’re a chicken and you know it, say “cluck cluck” [repeat]
If you’re a chicken and you know it, then you really ought to show it
If you’re a chicken and you know it, say “cluck cluck” [repeat]
[Repeat with pig, cow, etc.]