When kid #3 was born it had been ten years. I admit my Sesame Street days were long past and my nursery rhymes were rusty.
I have created a cheat sheet for parents, a collection of songs to sing to babies.
It is important to sing to your baby. This helps with soothing the baby as well as bonding. Later on this will help with early language skills.
There are many songs that will be familiar to you, but really you can sing whatever you want in a sing-song voice and your baby will like it, no matter how terribly you think you sing.
I have collected the words to many common songs for babies and toddlers. Most of them you will recognize. If you do not know the tune of a song it is easy to look it up on YouTube.
Repetitive songs have been abbreviated (think This Old Man).
I confess, my Sesame Street songs are rusty. http://t.co/meGrNmRR6h
— More With Less Mom (@MoreWithLessMom) May 13, 2015
You can print these out and hang them in the nursery to refresh your memory. You can use a dab of toothpaste to hang them, with the lullabies over the crib and the play songs split over the changing area and near the tub.
They are oriented in landscape so you can also stick them in sheet protectors and hang them on two tacks in the closet. When you get the next day’s outfit you can change the page on top and review some new songs to try for that day.
You can also save it to your desktop and open it when you are feeding the baby.
The play songs PDF is 13(!) pages and contains the following 34 songs:
*If you don’t want to print all of the pages there are cut offs, you can just print the first 2, or 4, or 10, or 12. 😉
Are You Sleeping
Baby Play
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Hey Diddle Diddle
Hickory Dickory Dock
How Much is That Doggie in the Window
I’m a Little Tea Pot
Itsy Bitsy Spider
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
Jack and Jill
Little Boy Blue
Little Bunny Foo Foo
London Bridge is Falling Down
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone
Old King Cole
Old MacDonald
One Little Indian Boy
Open, Shut Them
Peas Porridge Hot
Ring Around the Rosie
Shoo Fly
Skip to My Lou
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
The Ants Go Marching
The Farmer In The Dell
The Grand Old Duke of York
The Muffin Man
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly
This Old Man (Knick-Knack Paddywhack)
Three Blind Mice
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?
You Are My Sunshine
The lullaby PDF is 4 pages and contains the following 9 songs:
All the Pretty Horses
All Through the Night
Golden Slumbers
Hush, Little Baby
Lavender’s Blue
Rock-a-bye baby
Sleep, baby, sleep
Toora, Loora, Loora
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
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