Collection of winter nursery rhymes, folk songs, and children's songs. Includes fun winter hand-play songs too.
Do you like winter?Although winter is very cold, there are many unique ways to enjoy it: you can see a beautiful silver world created by pure white snow, and you can feel a special kind of warmth you can only experience in winter, like hot pot dishes or sitting in a kamakura snow hut.There are also lots of fun events like Christmas and New Year’s!Children are probably looking forward to making snowmen, having snowball fights, and enjoying Christmas presents and cakes, aren’t they?In this article, we’ll introduce nursery rhymes, folk songs, traditional children’s songs, and hand-play songs themed around various aspects of “winter.”There are many songs that will turn a winter that’s “just cold” into wonderful memories, so please give them a listen!
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Collection of winter children's songs, folk songs, and nursery rhymes. Fun winter finger-play songs too (71–80)
Christmas on Rabbit MeadowSakushi: Shinzawa Toshihiko / Sakkyoku: Nakagawa Hirotaka
Usagi Nohara no Christmas (Christmas on Rabbit Meadow) depicts rabbit children eagerly awaiting Christmas.
The lyrics are by Toshihiko Shinzawa and the music by Hirotaka Nakagawa.
Bright sleigh bells and a bouncy piano part ring out with a lively sparkle.
It’s fun to clap along or play bells to the rhythm of the song.
The lyrics, which conjure up cute rabbits braving the cold winter, also evoke the season, making it a classic children’s song for winter.
As you make wishes upon the night stars and wait for Christmas with the children, be sure to give it a listen.
Knock knock knock, Christmas
This is the Christmas version of a famous fingerplay song often sung at kindergartens and daycare centers.
It’s usually sung as “Hige Jiisan” or “Anpanman,” but this version features a reindeer and Santa.
If you start singing “Ton ton ton ton,” the children will probably say, “I know that one!” I wonder what expressions they’ll make when they realize it’s a Christmas song!
Yakiimo goo-choki-pa
Beloved as a heartwarming winter hand-play song, this piece revolves around roasted sweet potatoes while incorporating the rock-paper-scissors moves of “Guu” (rock), “Choki” (scissors), and “Paa” (paper).
It has been broadcast on NHK’s children’s program “Okaasan to Issho” and has long been cherished as a hand-play song for young children.
Embraced by many as a song that evokes the seasonal feeling from autumn to winter, it is enjoyed not only in kindergartens and nursery schools but also at home.
While expressing the fun and warmth of eating roasted sweet potatoes in the cold season, moving the hands and fingers to the rhythm can also help nurture children’s sense of rhythm and fine motor skills.
Be sure to enjoy it together with the whole family!
Collection of winter children’s songs, folk songs, and nursery rhymes. Fun winter hand-play songs too (81–90)
Cream Stew Fingerplay Song
There is a hand-play song that’s perfect for the cold winter and is popular in nurseries and kindergartens.
With lyrics and hand movements that funnily express the process of making cream stew, children naturally learn the steps of cooking and the names of ingredients.
On YouTube, several childcare-related channels feature this song, and a video posted about three years ago by the “Fujiko Sensei” channel is particularly popular.
It has a bright, rhythmic melody and includes the cooking steps: sautéing ingredients like onions, carrots, potatoes, and chicken, adding water to simmer, and finally adding the roux.
It can be used as part of food education, and singing it on days when cream stew is served for school lunch is likely to really spark children’s interest.
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
This song is one of those you hear all over town at Christmastime, so I imagine everyone knows it.
The lyrics were written by Haven Gillespie and the music by Fred Coots, while the most famous Japanese translation is by Takao Kobe.
It was first broadcast on a radio program in 1934, and as soon as it aired, over 400,000 copies of the sheet music were sold.
The idea of sheet music selling like that really feels of its time, doesn’t it? The song also ranks as the seventh highest-earning composition in music copyright history.
Amazing, isn’t it?
Santa on the road
As Santa Claus walks down the road, his nose stretches, his neck stretches, and he transforms into different things.
Children have rich imaginations, so they can use their whole bodies to become Santa, singing and dancing along for lots of fun! When singing, adding intonation and changing your voice will give the song even more expression and double the enjoyment.
Try transforming into all sorts of things!
Where is Santa Claus from?
Haven’t many of us wondered where Santa Claus comes from and what kind of person he is? This song, “Where Is Santa Claus From?”, is perfect for Christmas, sparking all sorts of imagination from that pure question.
Once used as the ending theme for the long-beloved anime Doraemon, the song is sung by Nobuyo Oyama, who was the voice actor for Doraemon at the time.
The dreamy imaginings of Santa sung in Doraemon’s voice are sure to fill children with excitement and wonder!
