Numbers Song: A fun nursery rhyme and fingerplay song to sing and learn with children

Magic Finger

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It’s a finger-play song that feels like a magic trick where, when you count your fingers one by one, you end up with eleven! The song includes the numbers from 1 to 11, but it skips 8 in the lyrics.

So after revealing the trick, it might be better to properly teach how to count from 1 to 11.

Bonus choo-choo train

Bonus Little Train Poppo: “Thank you, Lullaby” from/edited by the NPO Japan Lullaby Association

Isn’t a song you sing before getting out of the bath—with lyrics like “let’s get out when we count to 10”—a number song that’s easy to incorporate into everyday life? If you sing it every day at bath time, even children who haven’t learned numbers yet might be able to remember them.

fig carrot

[Hand play video] Fig and Carrot

It’s a nostalgic hand-clapping song that begins with “Fig, carrot, sansho pepper, shiitake~.” The lyrics feature vegetables matched to the numbers from 1 to 10, so you can learn the vegetable names along with the numbers.

Be sure to give it a listen!

five melon breads

[Hand Play Song] Five Melon Buns

This is a hand-play song about melon bread that features the numbers from one to five.

It’s said to be originally an English nursery rhyme, but its lively rhythm should be easy for little kids in Japan to remember.

They’d probably love it if you sang it while pretending to run a little shop.

Ten Little Indians

[With Vocals] Ten Little Indians ☆ Anpanman Children’s Song – Baby Soothing, Childcare, Everyone’s Songs, Kids’ Baby’s Song

It was originally an English nursery rhyme called Mother Goose, and it has also been translated into Japanese.

The melody is famous, isn’t it? In fact, the original lyrics were scary: “Indian children decrease one by one until no one is left.” But nowadays, as you can see, it’s been passed down with lyrics for counting numbers.

It’s also perfect for learning how to count people with hitori, futari, and so on.

Song of numerical units

Let's memorize numbers from one to 10^68! With the song of numerical units, you too can gain knowledge in the billions, trillions, and beyond.

Many of you probably memorized “one, ten, hundred, thousand, …” back in elementary school, right? There’s a similar song on NHK E-Tele’s ‘Nihongo de Asobo,’ and this one sings the way to count from 1 all the way up to transfinite numbers.

It’s quite catchy, so after listening a few times, you can remember a lot of it.

[Fingerplay Song] One Little Ghost

One Little Ghost [fingerplay song] – A counting song perfect for Halloween 👻♪

Let me introduce a ghost-themed play song that kids love.

Each time the lyrics repeat, one more ghost joins in, and the parts you sway increase too—hands, feet, and head.

The idea that the ghosts come to scare you once there are five adds a thrilling touch that kids will likely enjoy.

This song also works great for Halloween, so it could be fun to have children dressed as ghosts join one by one while singing and dancing.

Move your body, have fun, and learn the numbers from 1 to 5!

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