[Children’s Songs for June] Fun finger-play songs and traditional nursery rhymes perfect for the rainy season
The rainy season makes you long for summer.
When it rains day after day, many children make teru-teru bozu and wish, “Please be sunny!”
Precisely because it’s a time when it’s hard to play outside as much as you’d like, why not have fun by singing children’s songs and hand-play songs together?
In this article, we’ll introduce children’s songs and hand-play songs that are perfect for June, the month of the rainy season.
We’ve selected a wide range, from famous songs like “Katatatsumuri” (Snail) to hand-play favorites popular with children in nursery schools and kindergartens.
Let’s change our perspective and turn a rainy day into a fun one!
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[June Nursery Rhymes] Fun Hand-Play Songs and Traditional Children’s Songs Perfect for the Rainy Season (41–50)
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Here’s a recommended rainy-day hand game song for June.
The choreography is simple enough for little ones to imitate with ease.
The lyrics, which describe raindrops hitting the ground and bouncing, are wonderful from a child’s perspective.
It’s great for parent–child play on a rainy day, or for everyone to enjoy together at kindergartens and nurseries.
Although it’s a hand game, if you have a spacious area, it would be fun to pretend to be the rain and jump around!
Beyond the rainbow
This song is from April 1996 and was sung by Ayumi Shigemori and Kentaro Hayami, who served as the “older sister” and “older brother” singers on NHK’s Okaasan to Issho.
It’s a very uplifting and fun song.
The rainy season brings a lot of rain, but the rainbow that appears after the rain is so beautiful it feels cleansing to the heart.
Green Green
June has Father’s Day, so let’s listen to some songs related to it.
“Green Green” is a longtime classic children’s song that features a father.
Its lyrics evoke memories with dads, making it perfect for Father’s Day.
The memories of your father from childhood last a lifetime, so it’s also a great song to sing together as a parent and child.
hail; sleet; a shower of (things)
This is a hand-clapping game with a rain theme, perfect for the rainy season.
It’s played in pairs as Pot-ton and Pi-chan.
The rules and song are simple, but you might get surprisingly tangled up and find it hard to do! Plus, when someone says “Kero!!,” Pi-chan should grab Pot-ton’s hand.
Even on rainy days when you can’t play outside, it’s an easy hand game you can enjoy indoors.
weather forecast
During the rainy season in June, you can’t help wondering every day, “Will it rain today?” and “Should I bring an umbrella?” At times like that, try singing ‘Tenki Yohō’ while doing a hand play activity.
There’s even choreography where you kick off the shoes you’re wearing to predict the weather as you sing, making it a song everyone can enjoy together.
Elephant and the Spiderweb
The comical hand-play song “The Elephants and the Spiderweb” features, amazingly, five elephants coming to a spiderweb made of thin threads.
At first, you show the number of elephants with one hand while spreading the other hand to represent the spiderweb, acting out how the elephants get caught on it.
After that, you make a motion to call other elephants and continue singing while doing actions that match the lyrics.
When the elephants reach five, the spiderweb can’t hold them anymore, so you clap your hands to show the web snapping.
This song isn’t just for hand-play—children can also take on the role of elephants and use their whole bodies to play along with the music! It’s perfect for indoor play during the rainy, early-summer monsoon season.
rain
It’s a slightly mysterious children’s song that seems to encourage the rain to fall.
The melody maintains a generally melancholy tone throughout.
While it sings about the problems that come with rain and the sadness one can feel, listening to it also makes you think anew about how powerful nature truly is.