March nursery rhymes & hand play songs! Spring songs you can enjoy with your kids

Opened, openedwarabe uta

♪Opened, opened – Hiraita Hiraita | ♪Opened, opened, what flower has opened? [Japanese song / children’s song]

Long beloved as a traditional Japanese children’s song, this piece enchants with lyrics that evoke the arrival of spring.

Children enjoy joining hands to form a circle and act out flowers opening and closing.

Despite its simple words and melody, it embodies Japanese views of nature and impermanence, giving it profound appeal.

It is often sung in kindergartens and nursery schools, contributing to children’s emotional development.

Passed down since the Edo period, this song is recommended for those who want to feel the spring season or experience traditional Japanese culture.

Why not sing it with your child and enjoy the coming of spring together?

It’s spring, isn’t it? It’s spring!sakushi/sakkyoku: Abe Naomi

With cheerful lyrics ♪ “It’s spring, it’s spring!” [Preschool music activity, hand play song, an all-purpose game]

This is the soothing hand-play song “It’s Spring, It’s Spring,” the kind that makes you smile and think, “Maybe this is what spring feels like for animals.” With its relaxed tempo, it’s gentle and easy for children to learn.

It could be fun to imagine how animals spend spring and try arranging the song with that in mind.

There are call-and-response parts where you can call out to the animals, which makes it enjoyable.

The melody is simple, so it’s a song children are likely to sing out energetically.

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Children all over the world

Children all over the world

This song portrays how children’s innocent smiles and tears spread across the world.

When you sing it, you’ll naturally want to clap your hands and sway to the rhythm.

Its simple lyrics and melody make it perfect for singing with children! You can compare the sound of snapping your right and left hands with the sound made when you clap your friend’s hands and your own together, and sing while listening closely to the voices around you—helping everyone discover the joy of singing together.

Let’s have fun adding movements and singing while making eye contact with friends and teachers.

Mukkuri Kuma-sanSakushi/sakkyoku: Suwēden min’yō

[Hand Play Song] Mukkuri Kuma-san [Ko Aru Biyori]

Bears that hibernate through the winter wake up and become active when warm spring arrives.

The children’s song “Mukkuri Kuma-san,” which lets you feel a bear’s springtime, can be enjoyed as a hand-play song or a game.

In the hand-play, you use your hands to act out the bear sleeping and then waking up in time with the lyrics.

For the game, you choose someone to be the bear and others to be the ones who run away from the bear.

In the song, when the bear wakes up, it’s hungry and eats whatever is around.

Following those lyrics, when the song ends and the person playing the bear “wakes up,” they chase the runners like a game of tag.

Give it a try outdoors in the warm spring!

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lazyboneswarabe uta

Hamamatsu City: Introducing April's nursery rhymes for rhythmics (Eurhythmics)

The children’s song handed down in Saga Prefecture has horsetail shoots as its theme, heralding the arrival of spring.

The lyrics call out to the sprouts as they peek up from the soil.

There are many ways to enjoy it—swaying together as parent and child or playing with a cloth, for example.

Reflecting the local culture, it is a cherished tradition passed down across generations.

It also seems to encourage interaction with springtime nature and promote rhythm and language development.

Widely enjoyed by various ages in nursery schools and kindergartens, it is a lovely song that expresses hopes for children’s healthy growth.

Churippu sharippuwarabe uta

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Simple yet profound, this nursery rhyme captivates children’s hearts.

The part where everyone stands in a circle and calls each other’s names is perfect for nurturing communication skills and social development.

Its rhythmic lyrics and melody are fun and easy to memorize.

In preschools and kindergartens, it’s also used as an icebreaker to ease the nerves of new children.

At home, singing and playing it together as a family can make for a delightful time.

It can be enjoyed from infancy.

When the spring weather invites you outdoors, why not form a circle and sing it together?

cuckoosakushi: Kobayashi Jun’ichi / sakkyoku: Doitsu min’yō

Cuckoo ♪ Cuckoo, cuckoo, quietly — Junichi Kobayashi (Japanese lyrics) / German folk song — The Cuckoo

We used to sing this a lot when we were kids, didn’t we? It’s a melody that just makes you want to sing along.

This is “Kakkō,” a German folk song with Japanese lyrics.

The cuckoo is said to be a bird that heralds the arrival of spring.

When you go out for a walk, try looking for cuckoos too.

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