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Playsongs blog ~ where we share songs, news and views
Our Playsongs blog regularly features a favourite baby and toddler song or rhyme. We relate stories from our contributors and followers about their favourite songs, and tell you the stories behind the songs.
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Hedgehog peekaboo
Three young hedgehogs come out on a dark starry night. But what are those scary sounds?
Sheena at Playsongs
Achinaee
Bounce a little baby or toddler on your knee to the Irish lilt of Achinaee. It's a grand bit of indoor exercise to lift the spirit.
Sheena at Playsongs
Give me a jiggle
A high intensity whirling birling baby rhyme by Kaye Umansky, from Grand Sleepover by Playsongs Publications
Sheena at Playsongs
Elephants have wrinkles
My good friend and fellow-baby music enthusiast, Tamar Swade, reminded me of the elephant song I'd apparently taught her many years ago...
Sheena
One two three ~ open your eyes and see
Cartloads of apples, pounds of plums, baskets of brambles ~ seeds and beans bursting their pods. Leon's song celebrates it all and is the...
Sheena
Jelly on the plate
It's summer party season and we've had a run of birthday parties in the family. This old playground skipping song makes a great party...
Sheena
Leg over leg as the dog went to Dover
This fine little leg-walker works both as a knee-rider and also as a puddle jumper for a rainy August walk. Knee-rider: sit baby/toddler...
Sheena
Eye winker, Tom tinker
Eye winker is one of those short and simple and great little rhymes, which you can play with a baby from birth onwards. Touch each named...
Sheena
There was a little mouse ~ barley game
Mouse barley! That smooth-rough grass. Do children still put a seed head up their sleeve and let it magically climb all the way up to the...
Sheena
A Cockney rhyme and we're off!
Rub your eyes, mince pies, Wash your face, Boat race, Clean your teeth, Hampstead Heath....
Sheena
Here are the candles
Here are the candles, red, white and blue, to put on a birthday cake for you.... play this tickle-puff rhyme whenever you have a toddler'
Sheena and Ami
This is Bill Anderson, This is Tom Sim
What a silly couple! Bill and Tom try to fight and just keep falling over each other. We've made another movie ~ press play and play! Sit...
Sheena
Roly poly over
Playsongs - bigger and bouncier - absolutely all the songs and rhymes from the book are now on accompanying CD
Sheena
The candlelight fisherman
The Candlelight Fisherman is an old sea song – there's a You Tube recording of it below of Bob Roberts, master of one of the last Thames...
Sheena
The broccoli song
Broccoli lovers join forces with The Happy Wanderer for this homage to cruciferous vegetables.
Sheena
Lefty Lucy
Righty Tighty and Lefty Lucy are old workshop friends, who've come together in a little knee-bouncing celebration for babies and toddler
Sheena
The Elephant goes like this like that
The elephant goes like this like that...
Sheena
Open shut them ~ medley of rhymes
This is a post we wrote for Hello Mums, a London-based baby-care and nursery staff site, which offers a really useful blog on all things...
Sheena
Santa's sleeping
Sing this little finger play when Christmas is approaching. Sing it very quietly and count one finger for each day that's left. On the...
Sheena
Hark hark the dogs do bark
Rhymes and songs evoke special memories from early childhood…
Carole Thomas
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