Songs, Verses and Fingerplays

Fingerplays and other children’s verses and songs can easily be adjusted by using finger puppets, as small dramas to act out with the whole body, or with a group of children. Feel free to experiment and adapt these verses to suit you and your child.

Many fingerplays and verses present counting and other simple number stories involving adding and subtracting, such as when children hold up five fingers to show five frogs, and one by one the frogs go away, or when two blackbirds fly away and then come back. These early math games help establish a solid number sense, and their importance cannot be underestimated as learning tools for beginning mathematicians.

Children’s verses also help foster a love of words, and can ease the transition into reading. Enjoy them daily as a part of your Circle Time, Language Arts activities, Creative Play and any other time!

Index of Verses

Autumn   Grandma's Spectacles   How Far is it to Babylon?   Humpty Dumpty
Lucy Locket   The Beehive   Doctor Foster Went to Gloster   The Whirling Leaves
Little Miss Muffet   Hickory, Dickory, Dock!   The Little Ducks   I Had a Little Nut Tree
A Diller, a Dollar   The Wheels on the Bus   Hot Cross Buns!   Little Tommy Tucker
Georgie Porgie   Two Apples   My Maid Mary   The Family
Little Jack Horner   Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater   Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark!   Barber, Barber
Three Little Kittens   Peas Porridge Hot   Baa, Baa, Black Sheep   Here's a Ball for Johnny
Friends   Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat   Five Speckled Frogs   Jack and Jill
Diddle Diddle Dumpling   The Apple Tree   Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son   Open Them Shut Them
Clap With Me, One Two Three   Donkey, Donkey   Three Wise Men of Gotham   Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mrs. McShuttle   Little Mousie   Snail Song   Hands on Hips, Hands on Knees
Rock-a-Bye, Baby   Jack Be Nimble   The Farmer Plows the Ground   Simple Simon
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush   Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake   Little Boy Blue   Little Robin Redbreast
Hey, Diddle, Diddle!   The Little Rabbit   Ride a Cock-Horse   Chubby Little Snowman
Ten Little Fingers   Peas   I Am a Fine Musician   Two Little Blackbirds
This Old Man   Teddy Bear   Little Bo-Peep   I'm a Little Teapot
If All the World Were Paper   Two Little Hands   One Elephant Went Out to Play   Wiggling and Jiggling
Minnie and Winnie   The Farmer Plants the Seeds   Hickety, Pickety   Five Little Monkeys
Aiken Drum   Three Young Rats   There Was a Crooked Man   Mistress Mary
If You're Happy and You Know It   Mary Had a Little Lamb   Daffy-Down-Dilly   The Cobbler and the Mouse
The Owl   The Queen of Hearts   Jack Sprat   Over the Meadows
Five Little Kittens   I Saw a Ship A-Sailing   Bow-Wow   The Little Bird
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star   My Turtle   Three Blind Mice  

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