Singing games for children: encouraging with music

How do singing games support your child?

Singing games are important for your child because they promote their development. With a suitable songbook or singing or rhyming games, you can easily encourage your child at home. They support your child’s sense of rhythm and promote concentration and memory, and they are often associated with movement. The following Singspiele will surely give you a lot of fun:

A hat, a cane, an umbrella…

“One two three four five six seven.

A hat, a cane, an umbrella. Forward, backward, sideways, run.

Heel, tip, up the leg”.

In the first verse, everyone takes seven steps forward, in the second, everyone takes one step for each syllable. Then tap your right foot forward, then back, and then sideways. Finally, put your foot on the heel, then on the tip of your toe and then lift your leg. Now it starts all over again.

dumpsack

All children sit in a circle and look at each other. They chant, “Plop, thud, thud, the sack goes around. If you turn around or laugh, you get your back full.” As the children sing, another child walks around the circle. It secretly places the burlap sack, which can be a small ball or something similar, behind one of the children sitting in a circle. Then it just keeps going around the circle as if nothing happened. As soon as the child in the circle behind the sack has noticed this, they have to try to catch the other child. If this does not succeed before the other child has taken the free place in the circle, then it is the new Pimpsack itself. If a child doesn’t realize that the sack is behind them for a round, that’s their turn as well.

More Singspiels at a glance

Singing games are not only suitable for promoting motor skills, memory and a sense of rhythm. Clapping games are also ideal. To do this, face your child and raise your hands. You slowly start clapping your hands and get faster and faster. First in your own hands, then with your right hand on your child’s right palm, then with your left hand on your child’s left palm and finally with both palms on both of your child’s palms. But you can also clap all by yourself, for example alternately clapping your own thighs. You and your child can simply support the following singing games by clapping your hands:

There was a fire at Müller’s…

There was a fire at the Müllers’… it was on fire… it was on fire

I quickly ran… ran… ran

there came a policeman … zist … zist

he put me on the list … list … list

the ruse fell into the dirt… dirt… dirt

there was my name…gone…gone…gone

so I quickly ran into the house… house… house

to my Uncle Klaus… Klaus… Klaus

he was already in bed… bed… bed

with his wife Elisabeth h.

Elizabeth was ashamed

and pulled the covers over her

the ceiling has a hole… hole… hole

there you saw them… yes… yes…

so I ran to the 1st floor

so I ran to the 2nd floor

I ran into the…

so I ran to the 10th floor

there sat a man in his petticoat.

We say no, no, no…

We say no…no…no

we say si…si…si

we say no

we say si

we say: em pom pie colony colony

em pom pie colony

academy

safari

academy

puff puff!

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve sat on the sofa.

Sofa cracked, Adam laughed

Eva screamed like never before.

Then came the Dr. Roll… roll… roll

with his sister Kille… Kille… Kille

with his brother Box…Box…Box

who looked like an ox… ox… ox.

whoop, whoop, whoop…

Oooooooooooooooh whoop whoop whoop

macaroni roni roni

Fitsche Fei fei fei

parrot goy goy

And the seppel seppel seppel

steals the apples apples apples

and radishes dieschen dieschen

for the Lieschen Lieschen Lieschen

And the cook cook cook

fell down the hole hole hole

but deep deep deep

so that he cried cried cried

Dear Mrs. Mrs. Mrs

get me out out out

with the shoe shoe shoe

you’re an old stupid cow

All monkeys that gape like that are täterätätä

all the goats from Berlin go bah!

Where do you get more Singspiele from?

The following selection of books is recommended by the editors because they are particularly entertaining for your child and encourage them through play. The singing games prepare you for singing yourself and offer lots of fun ideas for movement games, finger games and rhymes. In addition, they are particularly child-friendly.