Counting Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes are a great way of teaching your children to count. It makes counting subliminal. There is no pressure to get it right, it’s just part of a fun game. You won’t believe how much information kids are absorbing when they are listening to music, singing songs or repeating rhymes. 

Whenever you can, when you’re not driving or trying to get the kids to go to sleep show your kids on your fingers how each number adds up. 

Here are four counting nursery rhymes with five more to follow in the next instalment. 

 

Five Little Piggies / This Little Piggy 

This is a great little counting nursery rhyme that doubles as an action song. You can use your little one’s toes and wiggle each one and on the final one run your hands up their body tickling them.

Action songs like this are also great bonding tools for when your little one is a baby. Just connecting skin to skin is so important and will make your little one feel closer to you.

 

Two Little dickie Birds

This is another great action song.

Use your two index fingers as the birds. When you sing the words “fly away…” put the one hand behind your back. 

 

 

One Two Buckle My Shoe

 

Lots of Counting Nursery Rhymes only go to 5, here we have one that goes all the way to ten. Even if your kids are really young, younger than pre-schoolers you could get them to count to ten just through repeating this nursery rhyme. 

 

If you have problems with the image, please let me know and I will put together a more masculine image with proper buckles 🙂 

 

Five Little Ducks

This is a great song to help you kids understand subtraction on a very simple level.

 

I’ve included all the lyrics below the post so that you can finish the song properly. Just make sure you take the song the whole way through so that the kids don’t get upset about disappearing ducks. 

 

 

“Four little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mother duck said
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
But only three little ducks came back.

Three little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mother duck said
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
But only two little ducks came back.

Two little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mother duck said
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
But only one little duck came back.

One little duck
Went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mother duck said
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
But none of the five little ducks came back.

Mother duck
Went out one day
Over the hills and far away
The sad mother duck said
Quack, quack, quack.
And all of the five little ducks came back.”

 

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The link to more Nursery Rhymes is at the bottom of this post.

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More about the AllThingsMomSydney Nursery Rhyme Collection

 

 

Why is it here 

The whole reason behind incorporating Nursery Rhymes on the site is to help you find new ones or remind you about old ones you may have forgotten you knew. So often as parents we land up repeating the same songs and rhymes to our children, to the point that we can’t think of a single new one. This section is dedicated to you not losing your mind. 

 

Use this resource

Each of  the Nursery Rhymes, these Counting Nursery Rhymes and the others are all in photograph form and with realistic images. This is done intentionally so that you can save them to your phone so that you have them at hand.

You can show the kids the photos so they can associate the words with relevant images and so that they begin to remember their favourites based on the visual and not just the audio. 

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Here is the link to a full list of the Nursery Rhymes on the site.

 

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