Songs and games

Find it on Youtube

The Wonky Donkey

This is a fun video that all kids and adults just love!

YouTube clip section- Craig Smith site

Find a review of the book here:

Children will love Pete the cat and his funky dancing. Maybe they can bring their soft toys to dance with Pete.

(Author) having fun with “We’re going on a bear hunt."

Free Rhymetime songsheet downloadable from Bookstart website (UK). (PDF, 684Kb)

This little Puffin, Elizabeth Matterson, Penguin/Puffin: Invaluable book of rhymes, songs and games. Starts with games and fingerplays for babies and adds rhymes and fingerplays to do with the world around us.
Acker Backer boo: Illustrated book of rhymes and games from a variety of countries. Best for older pre-schoolers.

Nursery rhymes can be used from babies’ earliest days to instill an understanding of rhythm, rhyme and storytelling.

Lucy Cousins book of Nursery Rhymes: Lucy Cousins, Macmillan
The Mother Goose Treasury: Illustrated by Raymond Briggs, Hamish Hamilton
The ABC book of Nursery Rhymes: ABC books
The Walker book of Read–Aloud Rhymes for the very young: selected by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Marc Brown, Walker
Multicultural Resources: Early Words have been asked for good examples of multicultural rhymes. This is one of the best sites we have found,
http://www.bpl.bc.ca/kids/embracing-diversity/songs-and-rhymes/arabic: The languages of all the rhymes and activities are listed on the right side of the page.; Find songs and rhymes that you can share with your child in your strongest language.
Ask your family and friends for songs and rhymes they remember.
: Global Language books have the following online: http://www.globallanguage.com.au/

Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes book and CD (Simplified Chinese Bilingual ed.) by Faye-Lynn Wu; My first book of Tagalog words: Filipino Rhymes and Verses (Tagalog Bilingual ed.) by Liana Ro

Row, Row, Row Your boat (Bilingual ed.) by Annie Kubler- in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Somali, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese and other languages.; Have a look at the Multilingual songbook site: www.laukart.de/ctm/index.php

Bussongs.com has a great site with a section on multicultural rhymes.bussongs.com