Songs for Preschool / Pre-K by Theme

All About Me

• Bickle Bockle – “Let Your Fingers Touch,” my adapted version
• Dry Bones
• Down Down Baby
• Head Shoulders Baby
• If You’re Happy
• It’s Such a Good Feeling (Rogers)
• Right Hand Left Hand
• SMILE

(songs with body parts)

Alphabet

Alphabet songs

Circus

• Carnival of the Animals (& book)
• Elephant Chant
• Elephant Song
• Grizzly Bear

(more animal songs)

Community Helpers

• Doctor Foster
• Doctor Katchel
• False Alarm
• Fire Down Below
• Firefighters
• Five Big Dump Trucks
• People in Your Neighborhood
• Rub-a-Dub-Dub (& book)
• Trade Song
• When I was a Shoemaker

(more songs about jobs)

Counting

• 1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive
• Allison’s Camel
• Animals Went in Two by Two
• Ants Go Marching
• Elephant Song
• Five Brown Eggs
• Five Fat Turkeys
• Five Green and Speckled Frogs

• Five Little Ducks
• Five Little Pumpkins
• Going Over the Sea
• Number One Touch Your Tongue
• Six Little Ducks
• Ten in the Bed
• This Old Man

(more counting songs)

Fall / Autumn

• A Pumpkin
• Apple Tree chant
• Five Little Pumpkins
• Great Big House in New Orleans
• Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

(more Fall / Autumn songs)

Family

Family songs

Farm

• Ali Baba’s Farm
• Farmer
• Farmer in the Dell (& book)
• Farmyard Song
• Jolly Farmer
• Mi Chacra/My Farm
• Oats Peas Beans
• Old McDonald

Frog

Frog songs

Health

• Apples and Bananas
• This is the Way (insert healthy habits: brush teeth, take a bath, go to sleep)
• Vegetables in a Dish – substitute for “Bubblegum” in a Dish (chant)

(sounds about food)

Hibernation

• Grizzly Bear
• Teddy Bear

Insects / Bugs

• Ants Go Marching
• Baby Bumblebee
• Baby Bye Here’s a Fly
• Caterpillar chant
• Itsy Bitsy Spider (& book)

(more insect songs)

Manners

• Golden Rule
• SMILE
• Song to the Sun
• Where is Thumbkin?

(see Character Counts | songs with a positive message)

Ocean

• Baby Beluga (& book)
• Bickle Bockle
• Charlie Over the Ocean
• Peace Like a River (includes “love like the ocean” verse)
• To a River

Pets

• Doggie Doggie Where’s Your Bone
• How Much is that Doggie in the Window
• My Dog Rags
• Three Little Kittens (& book)
• Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone (& book)

(more animal songs)

Pond Life

• 1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive
• Five Little Ducks (& book)
• Six Little Ducks
• There Was a Little Turtle (chant)

(more animal songs)

Shapes

• Who Has the Circle? (pass out shapes, using “so-mi” tones, sing “Who has the circle?” and the student holding the circle sings “I have the circle” – continue with other shapes)
• Circle Round the Zero

Sports

• Ball Passing Game (more ball / stone passing games)
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Summer

• Mister Sun
• You are My Sunshine

(more summer songs)

Transportation

transportation songs

Trees

• Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees
• I Had a Little Nut Tree
• Tree Song

(more nature songs)

Weather

songs about weather

Zoo

• Going to the Zoo (& book)
• Grizzly Bear
• Here Sits a Monkey
• Willoughby Wallaby Woo
• Wolf (We are Dancing)

(more animal songs)

See also

• Preschool / Pre-K lesson ideas