Two Aliens. Song for Children about Cute Aliens

This song about two cute aliens is my husband's contribution to my English teaching activity. My husband works for a web design company as a translator while I teach English to children. He often gets inspired with the success of our Youtube channel where we post my ESL songs for which my husband often creates animation videos. He also get inspired by our four years old son who is constantly surrounded with kids' stuff and tries to learn English through songs, cartoons and children's books. So the atmosphere of the early childhood education in our house seems to be contagious because my husband has made a decision not only to help me create videos for my songs but also write his own songs for kids. And he wrote lyrics for a few new songs I am going to show in this blog. I think these songs are really good.

His first song is called "Two Aliens". This song is about two cute little aliens who visit children on the Earth to play with them and eat some yummies. When he showed this song to me I understood that it could be a really powerful teaching material for teachers working with elementary school kids and older children because the song story is really cute and funny. All teachers know that fun is always great for any kind of lessons with kids and especially for teaching languages. Fun helps create excitement and human brain remembers moments of excitement more effectively than colorless and boring situations. Memorizing things while playing fun games and singing fun songs during lessons is much easier especially for little ones. My husband had created drawings of two cute alien characters and used them to make this little cartoon for even more fun during my English lessons.

Watch the Aliens Song video on Youtube

This is yet another song created by our whole family (the others being the Fruits and Berries song, the Forest Animals song and the Dinosaur song): my husband contributed his lyrics, illustrations and animation; I composed the music and recorded my singing, and you can hear our four years old son as the cute alien's voice in the video above.

Fruits and Berries Song for Kids (+ Counting to 10)

Summer is a wonderful season of harvesting fruits, berries and vegetables. Lots of people around the world celebrate the harvest and the end of the field work season in late summer and in the beginning of autumn. It's an important event and a great topic for English lessons with kids. After all, the majority of children adore fruits and berries, so learning their names in English could be really exciting for them. That's why I decided to create a “Fruit and Berries Counting Song”. Singing this song, kids can fancy themselves gathering fruits and berries in a garden. And this is kind of a song with the added value as it teaches not only the fruits and berries vocabulary but also counting to ten. And as usual I asked my husband to create an animated cartoon for this song for me to make learning fruits and berries more engaging. This is the third song where you can here the voice of my 3-years old son who also learns English using my teaching materials. So here is the resulting video:

Watch the Fruits and Berries Song video on Youtube

Dinosaur Song for Preschool Kids

The dinosaur song is our new family project. I have written this song to make my English lesson with preschoolers more interesting and engaging. The mysterious world of dinosaurs is always fascinating for kids! It is fun to have an imaginary travel with children to prehistoric times when those huge and awesome creatures populated the Earth. Children can learn many things about our planet, nature and animals. So let’s get our time machine together and visit a cute stegosaurus family that lived during the Jurassic period some 150 millions years ago.

This song is very simple and perfectly adapted for young English learners from 2 to 5 years old. Our son who is 3,5 years old is very fond of dinosaurs and he loved this song very much. That’s why we decided to perform it together. I think making such family project encourages kids to learn more about our world and to master the language with the help of music, singing and dramatizing interesting stories.

Watch the Dinosaur Song video on Youtube

The animation was created by my husband. Our family friend – artist Igor Lukyanov – helped us create some cute illustrations of the main characters for this song video.

Here are the Dinosaur Song lyrics:

Forest Animals Song for Kids

I think there is no a child in the whole world who doesn’t love animals. That’s why I decided to create a new song about our children's animal friends. This time my song features animals living in the forest. From the very childhood people meet forest animal characters in children’s stories and fairy-tales. The most lucky kids can observe wildlife in animals' habitat or in a zoo. My 3,5 years old son loves all kinds of animals but for the time being we have no chance to visit at least a zoo as we live in a relatively small town where there is no way to see real wild animals. Anyway, I do believe that animals are the most exciting and appealing creatures in children's life. That's why I hope that kids from all over the world will love my song. The cute thing about the song video is that my little son sings the last refrain. This video was created by our entire family. I had written lyrics and music, then I sang the song with my son and my husband created animal images and the animation for the following video.

Watch the Forest Animals song video on Youtube

My song introduces animals of middle latitudes. They are common both in European and North American forests. While listening to my song and working with a great variety of worksheets, which I would like to share with educators from all over the world in my next posts, children will learn names of forest animals in English as well as facts about where these animals live and what they can do.

So here are the Forest Animals song lyrics:

1
Discover who lives in the forest
In the heart of a deep, green forest,
In the holes and in the trees
I can easily tell you this.

Refrain:
Foxes and bears,
Squirrels and hares,
Wolves, snakes, and birds.
Moles and deer,
Hedgehogs and beavers,
Butterflies and frogs.

2
Discover who lives in the forest
In the heart of a deep, green forest,
On the ground and in the air,
Animals everywhere.

They run very fast
And hide in the grass,
Walk, jump and crawl.
They swim in the river
And fly with no fear
Let’s name them all:

Refrain:
Foxes and bears,
Squirrels and hares,
Wolves, snakes, and birds.
Moles and deer,
Hedgehogs and beavers,
Butterflies and frogs.

See also:
Forest Animals Coloring Pages and Flashcards
Forest Animals Worksheets