[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)
What shall we make with rock, scissors, paper?
This song is known as one of the most famous hand-play songs.
It’s something everyone can enjoy, from babies to toddlers, and there are many different arrangement versions.
The simple fun of using combinations of “rock,” “scissors,” and “paper” with both hands to make whatever you like always gets people excited.
How about making a snail during the rainy season?
[June Nursery Rhymes] Fun Finger-Play Songs and Traditional Children's Songs Perfect for the Rainy Season (51–60)
We Are the Frog Choir
It’s a hand-play song where the children become a frog choir and imitate the teacher in turn.
June is the damp, rainy season, and June 6 is even known as “Frog Day,” making it the perfect month for frog-themed songs.
If you sing while imitating frog croaks and getting into a frog’s mindset, it’s sure to blow away the gloomy rainy-season mood.
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.
Here is the weather forecast.
Even kids can’t help but check tomorrow’s weather forecast when the rain keeps falling for days on end in June.
A hand-play song we recommend for such children is “We’ll Announce the Weather Forecast.” The melody is the American folk tune “Yankee Doodle,” familiar as the tune of “Alps Ichiman-jaku.” As the title suggests, the lyrics simply depict announcing what the weather will be.
When it’s sunny, use your hands to show the bright rays of the sun pouring down; when it’s rainy, use your hands to show the falling rain! Keep a strong wish for clear skies, and sing and dance the sunny part as energetically as you can.
So it rains.
I think most people dislike the rain.
This is a positive children’s song that, on the contrary, enjoys the rain.
Its rhythm is distinctive, sung in a relaxed 3/4 time, wrapping you in a unique laid-back feel.
Since the lyrics express feelings from the animals’ point of view rather than humans’, try singing it while fully embracing that mood.
Rain hand play—let’s toss that damp, clammy feeling away!
Let’s brighten up the damp, rainy-season mood with a lighthearted song and hand play.
The hand-play song “Toss Away the Damp and Dreary!” features fun gestures for gathering up the clammy feeling when the rain keeps falling and the sogginess when you get soaked.
The lyrics even end with collecting the rain clouds themselves, which is delightful and sure to get the kids excited.
Rain, rain, go away.
When the pesky rain keeps you from going out to play anywhere, “Ame Ame Atchi Ike” is just the thing.
As the title suggests, it honestly expresses the feeling of asking the bothersome rain to “go away, please!” The English version is titled “Rain, Rain, Go Away,” a traditional children’s song from the UK.
There’s a spot in the lyrics where you can add a person’s name, so try singing it with your own name or the name of someone who also wants to go play outside.
Although it’s a song about disliking the rain, its catchy, pop melody gives it a fun vibe, so you can enjoy singing it indoors—maybe with some simple instruments—until the rain lets up!