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By Anne Hole

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3 Favourite Minibeast Songs

Minibeasts is always a favourite theme/topic. I’m going to share with you 3 songs that I know the children really enjoy.

Tiny caterpillar on a leaf

This is to the tune of 'She'll be coming around the mountain'. I usually use puppets when we do this song. But you can also just get the children to wiggle their finger for the caterpillar and flap their arms for the butterfly.

There’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf (wiggle, wiggle)

There’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf (wiggle, wiggle)

There’s …

Let’s Do the Animal Stomp!

Let’s do the animal stomp!

The title, ’Let’s do the Animal Stomp’, is from a song that I wrote to help children understand tempo (speed). I usually use this song when we are doing the topic/theme of animals. Although if I was working in the same early years setting, most days, it is one of a collection of animal songs/rhymes that I could call on when the need arose e.g. after a story, the children's interests, on a walk...

So, do you have a collection of animal-themed musical activities up yo…

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Topics and Themes

3 Favourite Minibeast Songs

Tiny caterpillar on a leaf

Let’s Do the Animal Stomp!

Let’s do the animal stomp!

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