Hey

Calling all Early Years workers. I am looking for New Nursery Rhymes to sing with my children. We fed up of the same old boring rhymes.

Any will help as long as they are fun and the children and staff enjoy singing them. My age group is 2-5 year olds

Thanks x x x x

Well........this is quite difficult as I don't know what you already do!

One of our faves is

A wise old owl with a pointed nose

Two pointed ears and claws for his toes

He sits in the tree and looks at you

He flaps his wings and he says T-whit T-whoo!

There are actions with that - sure you can work those out for yourself!

Well, one that I've always thought was rather strange - not necessarily advocating you teach this one - not sure how social services would view it

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her
Had another didn't love her
Up the chimney he did shove her.


As sunnyday says, hard to answer without knowing which you already sing.

Action and number rhymes are always good;

Here are grandma's glasses

Dingle dangle scarecrow

London Bridge is falling down

Oranges and Lemons

5 little ducks went swimming one day

5 cheeky monkeys swingng in a tree

5 naughty monkeys jumping on the bed

10 little aliens

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Ours like -

Baa Baa Black Sheep
have you any spots?
Yes Sir, Yes Sir
I've got lots!
Some on my tummy
some on my toes
and a very big one on the end of my nose!

and they like '5 cheeky monkeys, swinging through the trees, teasing Mr Crocodile - you can't catch me...........'

Peter Pointer
Peter hammers with one hammer, one hammer, one hammer, peter hammers with one hammer all day long
Peter hammers with 2 hammers................................
Peter hammers wityh 3 hammers .....................all the way to 5
Peters getting tired now tired now etc all chn fall asleep on carpet
Peters woken up now up now up now

My kids love that one a definaet firm fave

Ohhhhh the hip hip hip po pot omous, hes better than the lot of us
he can stay under the water for half a day
but the hip hip hip po potomous he can nt shout hip hip hooray

Thanks for that, one of our children keeps getting half way through this version and forgetting and I keep meaning to find the rest of the rhyme - now I have!

WE asked our children/parents to write down their favourite rhymes from home and made them into a book, to use in class. They were a mix of the usual and some I hadn't seen before, some were personalised to the children. They love reading them and talking about who says them at home.

Thats a first for me LOVE IT getting ready to use it next week Thanks

Big Sue

Our current favourite (well the children's!) is

I'm a tiny caterpillar on a leaf (wiggle wiggle)
I'm a tiny caterpillar on a leaf (wigle wiggle)
I'm a tiny caterpillar, tiny caterpillar
a tiny caterpillar on a leaf wiggle wiggle

I will eat the leave around me until I'm full (munch munch)
[repeat as above]

A cocoon is what I'm spinning for my home (spin spin)


I will be a butterfly and fly away (flap flap)

I think it's sung to the tune of 'she'll be coming round the mountain'

This little piggy

This little piggy is a very naughty piggy
and this little piggy is good
This little piggy is a very nosiy piggy
and this little piggy is a quiet
This little piggy goes boogy woogy woogy
a boogy woogy woogy woo!