[Music Play] Children’s Recreational Music: Rec Songs You Can Sing and Play
We’re introducing playful songs and recreation songs that you can enjoy with children!
We’ve gathered a wide variety—from classic folk dance and campfire songs to rounds, hand-play songs, and playful tunes perfect for bus activities.
They’re all songs that everyone will say, “I’ve heard this before!” so you can use them for recreation with confidence.
The folk dance songs also come with choreography tutorial videos, so please use them as a reference.
Let’s sing together and have a wonderful time!
Playlist
| [Music Play] Children’s Recreational Music: Rec Songs You Can Sing and Play | |||
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| show_chart | Title | Playlist | Review |
| 1east | Picnic |  play_arrow | With a lively, high-spirited melody, even the bus recreation and group activities... |
| 2east | Child of Abraham |  play_arrow | Dance to slightly enigmatic lyrics, a lit— |
| 3east | Country Road |  play_arrow | Recommended for sing-alongs on the way to field trips and camping… |
| 4east | Jenka |  play_arrow | The Finnish folk dance “Jen…” |
| 5east | Ten thousand feet in the Alps |  play_arrow | Anytime, anywhere, as long as someone is by my side, right away... |
| 6east | Genghis Khan (also refers to a Japanese grilled mutton dish called ‘Jingisukan’) |  play_arrow | With a hot melody, perfect for campfires and the like… |
| 7east | Rock-Paper-Scissors Train |  play_arrow | We all played rock-paper-scissors, and then kept on the train... |
| 8east | Where are you from? |  play_arrow | “Antagata…” which is cherished as a temari (handball) song |
| 9east | Mayim Mayim |  play_arrow | As a classic folk dance number, to many people... |
| 10east | Burn, burn. |  play_arrow | A campfire with great flames blazing up… |
| 11east | Korobushka |  play_arrow | It’s a Russian folk song that’s used as music for folk dancing… |
| 12east | Camp da Hoi |  play_arrow | A folk singer and actor, Ma... |
| 13east | A quiet lakeside |  play_arrow | This song was composed in 1936 at the YMCA Nojiri Lake... |
| 14east | If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands |  play_arrow | Making sounds with various parts of the body, happily… |
| 15east | O Bureneli |  | Singing in a place with beautiful scenery looks like it would feel so good... |
| 16east | Oklahoma Mixer |  play_arrow | Recreational activities for various events, including the sports day… |
| 17east | Soran Bushi |  play_arrow | Many schools and kindergartens that dance at sports festivals also use KITA… |
| 18east | Let’s dance, fun Polechke! |  play_arrow | This song is sung and danced to at elementary schools and the like... |
| 19east | Goodbye for today. |  play_arrow | Affiliated with the Harmonii Center Public Interest Incorporated Foundation... |
| 20east | Oh, the pastures are green |  play_arrow | The long-beloved NHK program, “Min… |
| 21east | Kuikaimanimani |  play_arrow | This song, with its string of words like incomprehensible incantations, is… |
| 22east | The sun sets behind the distant mountains. |  play_arrow | Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”… |
| 23east | A big song |  play_arrow | A song written and composed by Koichi Nakajima, arranged as a call-and-response, easy for children to sing. |
| 24east | Real Gonekāzu |  play_arrow | Anthropomorphized Disney films tickle the imagination. |
| 25east | Funiculi Funicula |  play_arrow | A mountain railway in Italy called a “funicolare”… |
| 26east | Anpanman Ondo |  play_arrow | Let’s have fun dancing to the Anpanman Ondo! |
| 27east | Gacha-Gacha Band |  play_arrow | Bing Crosby’s hit song “MacNamara…” |
| 28east | The Bear of the Forest |  play_arrow | It's a song for which Yoshihiro Baba wrote Japanese lyrics based on an American folk song... |
| 29east | Playing bus (pretend bus play)Sakushi: Kayama Yoshiko / Sakkyoku: Yuyama Akira |  play_arrow | A nursery rhyme about the excitement of riding a bus |