A collection of classic nursery rhymes and hand-play songs for September! Enjoy autumn with your child through songs.
With the refreshing autumn breeze comes a cool season filled with children’s smiles.
During such delightful autumn days, why not incorporate songs and fingerplay that are perfect for the season into life with the children? In fact, there are many children’s songs for September that gently depict autumn scenes, such as ginkgo leaves, chestnuts, and moon-viewing.
Here, we will introduce a wide range of songs that will be useful in September childcare—from pieces that express autumn landscapes like moon-viewing and autumn foliage to fingerplay songs.
Be sure to find songs that let you enjoy the season together with the children while experiencing the ambiance of autumn.
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A Collection of Classic Nursery Rhymes & Hand-Play Songs for September! Enjoy Autumn with Your Kids Through Songs (41–50)
Good evening, Mr. Moon.
This piece features a gentle melody that even infants can grow fond of, along with unique lyrics that seem perfect for use in playtime activities.
It’s an easy-to-play, beautiful number on the piano, ideal not only for nurseries and kindergartens but also for parent-child sing-alongs.
The lyrics feel like a small child is gazing at the moon, thinking and talking, and the interaction with the friendly cloud that appears is heartwarming.
With this soul-soothing song, adults can also return to a childlike mindset and enjoy a moment of comfort.
A collection of classic nursery rhymes and fingerplay songs for September! Enjoy autumn with your children through song (51–60)
Piglet-raccoon dog-fox-cat
This is the popular autumn hand-play song for children, “Kobuta Tanuki Kitsune Neko”! Kids imitate the animals that appear in the lyrics and copy their sounds as they play.
It’s very simple and fun to watch, so even infants can enjoy it.
When playing this song with preschoolers, try speeding it up as they get used to it.
It’s also fun to see who can keep up!
I found a little sign of autumn.
Chiisai Aki Mitsuketa (I Found a Little Autumn) is a song composed in 1955 as one of the pieces for NHK’s special program Autumn Festival.
The lyrics were written by Hachiro Sato and the music was composed by Yoshinao Nakada.
There are many ways to interpret the lyrics, but simply following the words to discover the feeling of autumn also sounds enjoyable.
While the melody may feel a bit melancholy for children to sing, it is a very beautiful classic of autumn.
Please give it a listen.
Dragonfly, dragonfly.
Among the insects often seen in autumn are dragonflies, and this time I’d like to introduce a children’s song about them.
The song is short and easy to remember! You can just sing it, but you can also move your fingers in little circles as if catching a dragonfly, make big circles with your arms, or even spin your whole body around.
There are no set rules for how to play—feel free to express the dragonfly however you like as you sing.
It’s also fun to use props, like singing while flying a dragonfly made from origami, or slipping a ribbon between a pair of chopsticks to flutter in the wind.
Sticky-bug bug
“Hittsuki Mushi-Mushi” is a play song where you stick to something that matches the color mentioned in the lyrics.
Like the game “Color Tag,” kids love this kind of play! If you’re playing outside in November, choosing colors like red, brown, yellow, and black to match the seasonal scenery makes the game easier and adds a sense of the season—highly recommended.
Of course, it’s fun indoors too, so give it a try!
bright red maple leaves
Speaking of autumn, there are lots of fallen leaves like maple leaves, and they’re often used for crafts.
The hand-play song “Makkana Momiji,” brimming with seasonal feeling, is a children’s song you can enjoy not only by singing, but also with hand motions—and even by holding real maple leaves and having fun.
Even if you don’t use real fallen leaves, letting paper maple leaves you made yourselves fall from the sky and catching them will surely make it even more enjoyable.
With a hand-play that captures the atmosphere of autumn, plus an active game using leaves, it seems like kids can have twice the fun.
Bright Red Autumn
One of the classic autumn songs, “Makkana Aki” (Deep-Red Autumn), with lyrics by Tadashi Satsuma and music by Hideo Kobayashi.
As autumn arrives, many things begin to take on color, starting with the autumn leaves.
It’s a very gentle song, like two people strolling together in search of those scenes.
In the comfortable autumn weather, children also have many chances to go out for walks.
It might be fun to sing this song while looking for the “colors of autumn” along the way.