Songs and Nursery Rhymes for Kids
(Tune: “Up on the Housetop”)
First comes a butterfly and lays an egg.
Out comes a caterpillar with many legs.
Oh see the caterpillar spin and spin,
A little chrysalis to fall asleep in.
Oh, oh, oh, wait and see!
Oh, oh, oh, wait and see!
Out of the chrysalis, my oh my,
Comes a beautiful butterfly!
(Tune: “The Hokey Pokey”)
Put your right wing in.
Put your right wing out.
Put your right wing in
and you shake it all about.
You do the butterfly pokey
and you turn yourself around.
That’s what it’s all about!
Put your left wing in…
Put your antennae in…
Put your whole butterfly self…
The first to come to the garden bed
Is a lovely butterfly of brilliant red.
Then in comes another and that makes two,
Fly right in, my friend of blue.
“The garden is fine, the best I’ve seen,”
Says the butterfly of spring time green.
Our garden needs a sunshiny fellow,
Fly in, butterfly with wings of yellow.
Little friend of purple, fly in too,
This garden is waiting for a color like you.
Orange, orange you’ve waited so long,
Fly right in where you belong.
Butterflies, butterflies you’re such a sight,
Flying in together-a summer delight!
Five little butterflies on flowers galore,
One flew off, then there were four.
Four little butterflies among the sweet peas.
One flew off, then there were three.
Three little butterflies with nothing to do,
One flew off, then there were two.
Two little butterflies resting in the sun,
One flew off, then there was one.
One little butterfly, now the only one,
She flew off, then there were none.
(Tune: “Eensy, Weensy Spider”)
A fuzzy little caterpillar,
curled upon a leaf
spun her little chrysalis,
and then fell fast asleep.
While she was sleeping,
she dreamed that she could fly
and when she woke up from her nap,
she was a butterfly!
I have a little frog
His name is Tiny Tim.
I put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water
He gobbled up the soap
And when he tried to talk
He had a bubble in his throat.
(Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell“)
The frog lives in the pond
Her tongue is oh so long
It reaches high to catch a fly
The frog lives in the pond
5 Green and Speckled Frogs
I’m a Little Jumpy Frog
Little Ducks Go Quack
There Once Was a Turtle
6 Little Ducks
I’m a Puff of Wind
5 Little Ducks with actions
Five little flowers growing in a row,
The first one said, “I’m purple you know!”
The second one said, “I’m pink as pink can be.”
The third one said, “I’m blue like the sea.”
The fourth one said, “I’m a very red fellow.”
And the fifth one said, “My color is yellow.”
Then out came the sun, big and bright.
And five little flowers smiled in delight.
Five little flowers standing in the sun (hold up five fingers)
See their heads nodding, bowing one by one? (bend fingers several times)
Down, down, down comes the gentle rain (raise hands, wiggle fingers and lower arms to simulate falling rain)
And the five little flowers lift their heads up again! (hold up five fingers)
Five little tulips bright and gay, (hold up fingers and thumb on one hand)
Let us water them each day. (make sprinkle motion with other hand)
Watch them open in the bright sunlight. (cup hand, then open it)
Watch them when it is night. (close hand again)
