Vegetable Song: A Recommended Food Education Song for Children

Broccolin ExerciseOzawa Kazuto × Uranaka Kouichi

Broccolin Exercise / Kazuto Ozawa × Koichi Uranaka

This is also a song themed around broccoli—just listening to it makes you want to dance, it’s such a cheerful tune.

If you watch the video, you can learn the choreography as well.

In Japan, broccoli is most often eaten cooked, but it seems that in other countries it’s also eaten raw.

Watermelon-producing regiondōyō

[Children’s Song] [Hand Game] Watermelon Producing Region

The original song is the American folk tune “Old MacDonald Had a Farm,” and the lyrics were written by Takada Sakuzo, who also translated songs such as “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Jingle Bells.” Some people may think of watermelon as a fruit, but it is classified as a fruit vegetable.

The Green Peas SongGasshou Kyoku

Song of Green Peas (poem by Shigeko Miyata / music by Makiko Kinoshita) - A cappella Unison (Female) Choral Suite “Song of Green Peas” - Hino Municipal Nanao Midori Elementary School Choir

Isn’t there a child who keeps picking out and leaving behind the green peas that show up in all kinds of dishes? For a child like that, let me introduce the “Green Pea Song.” As you can see, green peas are round, and when they fall, they roll away.

This song depicts, at length, the way those green peas just keep rolling.

Even if you try to stop them with your hands or feet, the tiny peas slip through the gaps and keep rolling.

As they keep escaping farther and farther, you start to feel an overwhelming urge to chase them, and the determination wells up: I’m going to catch them and eat them no matter what! The more something runs away, the more we humans want to chase it.

With this song, conquering green peas is a done deal!

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A mysterious vegetable alien appearskaneko hiroyuki

A mysterious vegetable alien appears

This is “Mysterious Veggie Aliens Appear,” the song from Ponkikies featuring very strange vegetable characters.

Eggplant Aliens, Carrot Aliens, and other veggies show up looking like extraterrestrials, and some moms and dads might remember footage of them walking around various places, mainly in Tokyo.

The song tells you which Veggie Alien appears and where they can be found.

Their enigmatic look is a little creepy, isn’t it? They won’t harm you, but if you keep leaving your vegetables uneaten, a Veggie Alien might suddenly show up!

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Takeda’s Vegetable SongKABOSU HIROSHI

Kabosu Hiroshi – Takeda’s Vegetable Song, cabosu hiroshi – Taketano Yasai no Uta

Taketa City in Oita Prefecture is known as a production area for kabosu.

This song, sung by Kabosu Hiroshi, a local personality who serves as a Taketa ambassador, promotes vegetables from Taketa.

By the way, kabosu is, strictly speaking, more of a fruit than a vegetable, isn’t it?