Songs

3 Milk Bottles Sitting on a Wall

How about using some milk bottles as props for a counting song? 🎵 There were three milk bottles, sitting on a wall
Three milk bottles, sitting on a wall
And if one milk bottle should accidentally fall..

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Balls: Roll the Ball 1 2 3 song

Claire and Clover are singing and playing with a homemade ball (which you can find a tutorial for among the videos on this page). A simple, catchy song, that involves some physical activity and also contains some maths!

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Blankets: Song Time! “Five Little Teddies Jumping On The Bed”

Using a blanket as a prop for song time! This one is Five Little Teddies (and the occasional monkey!) Jumping on a Bed. You could also do Five Little Ducks Go Swimming One Day…

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Bottles: Shake And Shake Song

Here’s a song to sing with your homemade shakers (you can find a tutorial in the bottles section of our play ideas)!

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Boxes: What’s in the Box Song

Here’s a very simple song that allows for a lot of improvisation, depending on the age of your child! Whatever you have in the box might also make a sound, so why not add that to your lyrics?

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Exploring Emotions: Song Time! “If You’re Happy and You Know It”

Here’s another one of our favourite songs: “If You’re Happy and You Know It” performed by the Hackney Playbus team and their little guests! Join us!

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Laundry Baskets: Row, Row, Row Your Boat!

Here’s the Hackney Playbus team in their own homemade boats singing one of their favourite songs for their lovely Playbus friends: Row, Row, Row Your Boat! Enjoy!

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Movement: Jumping Bean Song!

Here’s the Playbus team jumping along to the Jumping Bean song 🙂 A good way to get some bounce into your day!

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Musical Pots

You don’t need musical instruments to make music! Grab some things from the kitchen and try out this song with Jess 🙂

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Nature Play: Round and Round the Garden

Sing “Round and Round the Garden” with your baby and learn some extra verses!

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Sensory Play: I Hear Thunder

Here’s a song to help us think about our senses 👀 You can use this tune and change the words to be about whatever you can hear and see around YOU!

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Sticks: Song Time! “I Am the Music Man”

Our multi-talented Ian is our music man and he can (or cannot 😅) play a lot of instruments! Together with his family, they seem to have had a lot of fun making this very entertaining video for all of our Playbus friends.

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String: Song Time! “Wind the Bobbin up”

Here’s one of our favourite songs featuring our little helpers! A nice song with repetitve words and actions that will catch your little one’s attention.

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