Transport Song for Children

Today I would like to share my new Transport song for children. This song helps young learners memorize means of transport and have some fun while learning English.

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Transport Song Lyrics

Verse 1
How can we get to Paris?
How can we get to Rome?
So many means of transport,
So many ways to go.

Chorus
We can drive a car
No matter how far

We can fly a plane
As fast as a hurricane

We can go by train
Along a railway

We can take a bus
It’s so good for us

We can ride a bike
It's something all kids like

We can sail a boat
On sea in place of a road.

Verse 2
No matter how we travel
By train, plane, car or boat,
By bus, bike or whatever
We'll see the whole world!

Toys Song for Children

Today I have a wonderful opportunity to share my new ESL song with fellow teachers and parents. It's the Toys Song. Singing this song during English classes will help educators introduce the playroom and toys vocabulary to children and improve their grammar skills when using the verb to have.

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Here are the song lyrics:

Toys Song

Toys, toys, toys,
I like to share
Toys, toys, toys,
Let’s play together

My name is Mike
I am a boy
I like to play
I have many toys
I like to share
Let’s play together

I have a ball - A BALL
I have a train – A TRAIN
I have a ship – A SHIP
I have a plane – A PLANE
I have a car – A CAR
I have a boat – A BOAT
I have a bike – A BIKE
I have a robot – A ROBOT

My name is Jane
I am a girl
I like to play
I have many toys
I like to share
Let’s play together

I have a doll – A DOLL
I have a house – A HOUSE
I have a teddy – A TEDDY
I have a puzzle – A PUZZLE
I have a book – A BOOK
I have a music box – A MUSIC BOX
I have a yo-yo – A YO-YO
I have a fox – A FOX.

Toys, toys, toys,
I like to share
Toys, toys, toys,
Let’s play together

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Clothing Song for Kids

I've decided to cooperate with another ESL teacher living in my city to expend the creative mind involved in my teaching activities and share new ideas with the English teachers' community. Her name is Julia Hetman and this post introduces her first contribution to my blog and YouTube channel. She has written lyrics for my new children's song. This song is about clothing and can be used for corresponding English lessons covering the clothes vocabulary. The lyrics are also good to teach the Present Continuous (Progressive) tense to as little kids as preschoolers if not toddlers. I asked Julia to write an article giving ESL teachers an idea on how the song can be used. So here is her article.

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This information is meant for educators and parents who are constantly seeking new ways to make English classes more exciting and productive for children.

This article has to do with the Present Continuous tense, which is one of the most widespread and frequently used grammar tenses.

The rhymes given below can well illustrate the essence of the Present Continuous, which serves to describe the action happening at or around the time of speaking:

Tom is playing,
Fred is eating.
Nick is writing,
Bob is sleeping.
The sun is shining
And I am smiling.

‘Where are you going, my little cat?’-
‘I’m going to town, to buy me a hat.’-
‘What? A cat in a hat? A hat for a cat?
Who ever saw a cat in a hat?’

Young learners often confuse the usage of the auxiliaries is, am and are, though. I have written lyrics of a simple clothing song containing lots of repetitions which will help youngsters learn how to make questions and answer them in the affirmative.

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Letter B Song. Bee Song for Kids Learning English ABC

This is my second video of the simple ABC songs series for kids learning English. This one is a letter B song and it is about a bee. The song is really simple as it’s targeted at preschool and elementary school children that are starting to learn English as a foreign language. It’s also easy to memorize just like any nursery rhyme even if kids do not know all the words yet. I really hope this little song of mine will help you introduce the letter B in a fun way to your ESL students.

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Letter A Song. Alligator Song for Kids Learning English ABC.

I like using very simple and short songs when I introduce English alphabet to kids. That's why I decided to create a series of mini-songs for each letter to be used in my lessons dedicated to learning and writing ABC. This is the first song from the future series. I'll be adding new video as soon as I create them. I hope I'll be able to create a nice ABC songs collection for myself and my fellow teachers who work with little children.

This first song is naturally a letter A song. It's about an angry alligator. So here is the video:

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Cute Frog Song for Children (Counting from 1 to 10)

I strongly believe that one of the most important missions of a teacher is to evoke children's love for learning. That's why educator's essential task is to make his/her lessons as less boring as possible. It's especially true when you work with little kids like I do. So my strategy is to use funny songs and characters during my ESL lessons. And my now song about a cute frog who can count can be another tool to turn learning English into an exiting process for kids.

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I Can. Action Verbs Song for Kids (+ Flashcards and Worksheets)

My vacation is over and I am back to share my new songs, worksheets and other educational materials to help ESL teachers make their English lessons more fun and engaging.

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Here is my new song I have written to teach the verb “can”, some action verbs and names of animals. This very simple song is suitable for fun activities while singing even with the smallest children. For example, in the course of singing the song kids could repeat actions of animals as seen in the little cartoon below which would certainly stimulate young learners’ cognition and memory.

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Spring Song for Children (+ Worksheets)

Spring is a long-expected season of the year especially in those parts of the world where winter is cold and snowy. So spring is a big deal for kids over there. People welcome the nature resurrection and work days that are coming back. Sure, the topic of spring cannot be missed in schools and kindergartens all over the world. There are lots of things to talk about spring during English lessons with kids.

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To help fellow ESL teachers make their English lessons dedicated to the spring season even more interesting I and my husband have written and animated our own spring song. My husband is the proud author of lyrics but we would have no problem if you use this song for your lessons with kids as long as you indicate our blog as the source. So here are the spring song video and lyrics:

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It’s spring,
All trees are getting green.
It’s spring,
It’s such a lovely scene
It’s spring, it’s spring, it’s spring.

Snowflakes Song for Kids

It's winter now and we have a wonderful opportunity to teach our children some winter vocabulary. One of the most fascinating things about winter is, of course, snow and those tiny beautiful snowflakes falling softly from the sky. So I would like to share my Snowflakes Song with fellow teachers and parents. This song is very simple and can be used for preschool and kindergarten children from 3 to 6 years old.

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Here are the Snowflakes Song lyrics

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Falling, falling, falling, falling to the ground.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Flying, flying, flying, flying all around.

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Dance in the air.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Everywhere.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Fly around.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Touch the ground.

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Falling, falling, falling, falling to the ground.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Flying, flying, flying, flying all around.

See also:
Arctic Animals Song for Children
I'm a Happy Snowman - Winter Song for Children
Winter Song about Merry Frosty Days

Calm and Peaceful Christmas Song

Christmas is coming! This holiday is always a special time of peaceful family atmosphere and romantic feelings. Our new song about Christmas will make you feel warmer during these winter days. 

The lyrics of the song were written by my husband some 10 years ago when he was a student. And today we decided to turn his little Christmas poem into a song that I believe will appeal to both kids and adults. The song sounds as calm as a lullaby so I hope children are going to like it. And grown-ups will certainly love the message of the song calling for peace in the world.  

Watch the Christmas Song video on Youtube

The Christmas song lyrics:

Snow is falling from the sky,
Turning round like in the dance,
Landing on the nose of mine,
Melting on the skin at once.

It’s a lovely Christmas tree
Whitened with some fluffy snow.
I just have a little dream
To take this beauty to my home.

Everyone will jump with joy,
Singing around the big green tree,
And I’ll give you a Christmas toy
If you give a kiss to me.

You and me will dance all night
Cheek to cheek, and hand in hand.
Hearts are warm and eyes are bright,
Let this party have no end.

Christmas is a real dream
Santa visits our place,
Brings us presents and ice-cream,
Smiles shine on every face.

Let the people of the world
Stop the wars and any fight,
Thank the Virgin and the Lord,
In the way we do tonight.

Peace and love will come to Earth
That’s for what we all should pray,
In the day of Jesus’ birth
War and hatred stay away.

See also:

Christmas Fun song
Happy Snowman song for children
Winter song about merry frosty days
Printable Christmas flashcards
Printable Christmas worksheets
Printable Christmas dominoes
Printable Christmas bingo

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:

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Summer Song for Kids

As the spring comes to an end and we are heading into the summer, it’s a great time for my little student to pick up some summer vocabulary right before they leave the kindergarten for vacations and the future school year.

My favorite way to introduce the new vocabulary and help kids memorize words is, of course, song singing. Since I teach English as second language to preschoolers who oftentimes have hard time speaking even their native language, I use extremely simple songs. Sometimes my English teaching songs have no rhyme because, as I believe, when it comes to teaching language to little kids rhyme is not as important as the beat, activities and movements children do while singing.

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So I would like to share my song about summer. Summer is a wonderful season full of fun, and every child looks forward to enjoying long summer days, nice weather and vacation somewhere by the seaside, in the forests or elsewhere. In this song I tried to convey the atmosphere of the season so that the children have fun singing and learning new words. And as I said this song is one of my extremely simple songs because it was specially created for little kids who have just begun learning English or even those who have never studied English before. You too, dear fellow teachers, can use this song during your standard lessons as well as during summer school or a summer camp program.

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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:

Butterfly Song (+ Coloring Pages and Worksheets)

It's springtime. It's time of flowers and butterflies. And it's also time to learn some spring vocabulary during English lessons with kids. I wrote a very simple song about butterflies a year ago which I used to teach English to preschoolers in spring. So I would like to share this butterfly song and some printable activities with other educators and parents who teach their own children at home.

Butterfly Song

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Down the valley,
In the meadow
I saw pretty butterflies,
They were flying in the air
They were flying very high.

On the flowers
Up the trees,
In the gentle morning breeze,
Butterflies, you’re so cute,
I would like to fly with you.

I have prepared a few coloring pages and worksheets to go with this song. They are rather simple and can be used for preschool and kindergarten activities.

Coloring Pages

Butterfly coloring page 1

Butterfly coloring page 2

Pepper Paper Craft

I would like to present you another vegetable craft – a pepper. It can be used by teachers and parents while teaching a lot of topics: gardening, harvest, healthy food and helping at home. This pepper craft is very colorful and positive.

This craft goes with my Garden song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

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

Tomato Paper Craft

Referring to my previous posts about vegetables I would like to suggest you making another vegetable craft – a tomato. Tomatoes are very popular in many countries of the world. They are very healthy and help to protect people from serious diseases being a powerful source of antioxidants and vitamins. You can use this craft introducing vegetables to little English learners or investigating the topic of wholesome food.

This craft goes with my Garden song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• red color
• vegetables
• country life in autumn
• healthy food

You’ll also help your kid develop:

• fine motor skills
• sense of space
• hand-eye coordination
• creativity
• imagination
• emotional intelligence

For this craft you’ll need the following:

• construction paper;
• scissors;
• glue or a glue stick;
• wiggle eyes (if you wish).

Step-by-step instructions:

• Print the templates of the tomato paper craft.

• Cut out all the parts. Help your children to cut out the details if they can’t do this by themselves.

• Stick the tomato onto the green piece of paper, and then stick hands and legs.

• Stick the tomato face. You can cut out a mouth, a nose and two eyes from the template or draw your own ones on the tomato. Or you can use wiggle eyes if you like to make your tomato happy and cheerful.

Tomato Paper Craft Template

I belive youк kids will enjoy making this wonderful tomato all year round.

This tomato paper craft is related to my Garden Song.

Cucumber Paper Crafts

Today I would like to present a cucumber paper craft which can be used in connection with many topics while learning English. You can speak with your pupils about wholesome food because cucumbers are considered to be very healthy and refreshing. Ask your pupils to remember what they know about this vegetable. Give them the information that cucumbers consist of 95% water. It means that we should eat these yummy green vegetables during hot summer days to keep ourselves hydrated. In winter preserved cucumbers, or pickles, are also used in many countries of the world as a wonderful component in winter dishes. So cucumbers are very important vegetables full of vitamins and microelements necessary for our body.

This craft goes with my vegies song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• green color
• vegetables
• hydration
• harvest season
• preserving vegetables for winter

You’ll also help your kid develop:

• fine motor skills
• hand-eye coordination
• sense of space
• imagination
• creativity
• emotional intelligence

For this craft you’ll need the following:

• paper;
• scissors;
• glue or a glue stick;
• wiggle eyes (if you wish).

Step-by-step instructions:

► Print the templates of the cucumber craft.

► Cut out all the parts. If your child can’t cut out you can help him/her.

► Stick the cucumber onto the paper, and then stick the leaves, hands and legs on the cucumber.

► Stick the face. You can cut out a mouth, a nose and two eyes from the template or draw your own ones on the cucumber. Or you can use wiggle eyes if you like to make your vegetable merry and friendly.

Cucumber Paper Craft Template

Enjoy this craft! Please make some comments about my songs and worksheets. Share your crafts and ideas about learning English.

This cucumber paper craft is related to my Vegetable Song.

Carrot Paper Craft

Following my previous posts I would like to present you another vegetable craft – a carrot. It’s a very healthy vegetable that gives you a lot of vitamins and positive feelings. This craft goes with my vegetables song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• orange color
• vegetables
• country life in autumn

You’ll also help your kid develop:

• fine motor skills
• hand-eye coordination
• sense of space
• imagination
• creativity
• emotional intelligence

For this craft you’ll need the following:

• paper;
• scissors;
• glue or a glue stick;
• wiggle eyes (if you wish).

Step-by-step instructions:

► Print the templates of the carrot craft.

► Cut out all the parts. If your child can’t cut out you can help him/her.

► Stick the carrot onto the paper, and then stick the leaves and hands on the carrot.

► Stick the face. You can cut out a mouth, a nose and two eyes from the template or draw your own ones on the carrot. Or you can use wiggle eyes if you like to make your carrot more alive and friendly.

Carrot Paper Craft Template

I hope your children will like this craft.

This carrot paper craft is related to my Vegetable Song.