Children's Songs
The Roly Poly Song is something that all kids might have heard before because it is a pretty standard song. The rhyme is very catchy and it is one of the kids song standards that has been able to hold on over the many years. You can have a lot of fun with this song, …
The Bear Went Over The Mountain is a fantastic little song that you may sing with your children, and it is about a bear that comes from a Germanic tradition. You may sing this song to the tune of For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow, and you may teach it to your children any time …
All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel is a song that you can teach you kids, and it has a rhyme and a history that you will start to love. You need to try this song when you want your kids to learn about rhyming, and you can let them see how …
We have all sung and danced to the Ring Around the Rosie song growing up. This song has children all holding hands and spinning in a delightful circle full of giggles before all crashing to the floor together. Yes, ring around the rosie, pockets full of posies. How pleasant does it sound to have a …
Day-O Day-O is a popular children’s song that is fun to sing and entertaining, too. When we sing these songs, we don’t often stop to wonder how it came about or what its history is. We just simply enjoy them and pass them along to kids. Rhyme Writing Most, if not all things are written …
Oh MacDonald Had a Farm goes back to what people believe is a songbook from 1917. This is one of the newer rhymes that you might have ever learned, and you can see that it is has a really interesting history and characters that are a very big product of their time. You can teach …
History Rock a Bye Baby is a nursery rhyme and lullabye sung to children all over the world. The first known print publication of this nursery rhyme was in Mother Goose’s Melody in London in 1765. The author of this popular nursery rhyme is unknown. Since the author is unknown, people have developed multiple theories. …
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater is a rhyme that was made for kids during the 18th century. The preschool kids who learn these songs will have a lot of variations that they might have heard about, and you can check into the history for kids so that you can learn something that is interesting and new. …
Little Piggy has a history that comes from the 18th century in England, and it was a nurse’s song that was used to check babies when they were born. It has grown a lot since then, and there are basically only a couple variations in the present that people will use. The rhymes can teach …
The Questionable Nature of Nursery Rhymes If you think about it, rhymes that have been popular among children and their parents for centuries have pretty ghastly scenarios. There are things like plagues, unbearable taxes, religious persecution, prostitution, animal torture, beheadings, and the list goes on. All of this has been told to countless infants by …