[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 Finger-Play Songs and Traditional Children's Songs Perfect for the Rainy Season (51–60)
Nyanunyonyo Weather Forecast
This song has been passed down for many years by successive “big brother” and “big sister” singers on NHK’s popular program Okaasan to Issho.
Around the world, it’s said there’s a relationship between cats’ behavior and humidity, and the lyrics are uniquely about predicting the weather based on a cat’s whiskers and eye movements.
Another charm is the melody, which brightens the damp, gloomy rainy-season mood and makes it fun.
Singing “nya-nyu-nyo” with your mouth wide open can also serve as a great mouth exercise for kids.
Get fully into the cat mindset and sing cutely with all your heart! Adding some choreography makes it even more fun.
Here is the weather forecast.
Even kids can’t help but check tomorrow’s weather forecast when the rain keeps falling for days on end in June.
A hand-play song we recommend for such children is “We’ll Announce the Weather Forecast.” The melody is the American folk tune “Yankee Doodle,” familiar as the tune of “Alps Ichiman-jaku.” As the title suggests, the lyrics simply depict announcing what the weather will be.
When it’s sunny, use your hands to show the bright rays of the sun pouring down; when it’s rainy, use your hands to show the falling rain! Keep a strong wish for clear skies, and sing and dance the sunny part as energetically as you can.
Waltz of the Rain
It’s a playful song where you imagine the rain as a character and sing to it.
You can even draw the character called “Ame” (Rain) while singing, so you can enjoy drawing at the same time.
If such an adorable character really existed, you’d almost find yourself wishing for rain, wouldn’t you?
Rainy Amusement Park
“Amusement Park in the Rain” is a Japanese song performed by Seiji Tanaka.
It was featured on NHK’s Minna no Uta in February 1962.
The original version comes from the track included in the Victor Japan release Shishu: Tooi Hi no Uta, and its lyrics depict an amusement park in the rain.
The composer, Hachidai Nakamura—also known for composing Kyu Sakamoto’s “Ue o Muite Arukou” (“Sukiyaki”)—crafted a cheerful melody that subtly evokes a similar atmosphere.
In conclusion
We introduced nursery rhymes and hand-play songs perfect for June.
It’s a shame we can’t play outside to our heart’s content.
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But there are also sights you can only see and fun experiences you can only have during the rainy season.
On drizzly days, it might be fun to put on rain boots, take an umbrella, and go out for a walk.