[Children’s Songs for June] Fun finger-play songs and traditional nursery rhymes perfect for the rainy season
The rainy season makes you long for summer.
When it rains day after day, many children make teru-teru bozu and wish, “Please be sunny!”
Precisely because it’s a time when it’s hard to play outside as much as you’d like, why not have fun by singing children’s songs and hand-play songs together?
In this article, we’ll introduce children’s songs and hand-play songs that are perfect for June, the month of the rainy season.
We’ve selected a wide range, from famous songs like “Katatatsumuri” (Snail) to hand-play favorites popular with children in nursery schools and kindergartens.
Let’s change our perspective and turn a rainy day into a fun one!
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[June Nursery Rhymes] Fun Hand-Play Songs and Traditional Children’s Songs Perfect for the Rainy Season (41–50)
Elephant and the Spiderweb
The comical hand-play song “The Elephants and the Spiderweb” features, amazingly, five elephants coming to a spiderweb made of thin threads.
At first, you show the number of elephants with one hand while spreading the other hand to represent the spiderweb, acting out how the elephants get caught on it.
After that, you make a motion to call other elephants and continue singing while doing actions that match the lyrics.
When the elephants reach five, the spiderweb can’t hold them anymore, so you clap your hands to show the web snapping.
This song isn’t just for hand-play—children can also take on the role of elephants and use their whole bodies to play along with the music! It’s perfect for indoor play during the rainy, early-summer monsoon season.
rain
It’s a slightly mysterious children’s song that seems to encourage the rain to fall.
The melody maintains a generally melancholy tone throughout.
While it sings about the problems that come with rain and the sadness one can feel, listening to it also makes you think anew about how powerful nature truly is.
Opened, opened
This is a children’s song about lotus flowers opening.
Holding hands, everyone spins around, making a large circle or gathering tightly in the center in time with the lyrics.
The lotus blooms in summer and is a beautiful flower of Indian origin, in shades of white and pink.
So it rains.
I think most people dislike the rain.
This is a positive children’s song that, on the contrary, enjoys the rain.
Its rhythm is distinctive, sung in a relaxed 3/4 time, wrapping you in a unique laid-back feel.
Since the lyrics express feelings from the animals’ point of view rather than humans’, try singing it while fully embracing that mood.
What shall we make with rock, scissors, paper?
This song is known as one of the most famous hand-play songs.
It’s something everyone can enjoy, from babies to toddlers, and there are many different arrangement versions.
The simple fun of using combinations of “rock,” “scissors,” and “paper” with both hands to make whatever you like always gets people excited.
How about making a snail during the rainy season?
Green Green
June has Father’s Day, so let’s listen to some songs related to it.
“Green Green” is a longtime classic children’s song that features a father.
Its lyrics evoke memories with dads, making it perfect for Father’s Day.
The memories of your father from childhood last a lifetime, so it’s also a great song to sing together as a parent and child.
We Are the Frog Choir
It’s a hand-play song where the children become a frog choir and imitate the teacher in turn.
June is the damp, rainy season, and June 6 is even known as “Frog Day,” making it the perfect month for frog-themed songs.
If you sing while imitating frog croaks and getting into a frog’s mindset, it’s sure to blow away the gloomy rainy-season mood.