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[Music Play] Children’s Recreational Music: Rec Songs You Can Sing and Play

We’re introducing playful songs and recreation songs that you can enjoy with children!

We’ve gathered a wide variety—from classic folk dance and campfire songs to rounds, hand-play songs, and playful tunes perfect for bus activities.

They’re all songs that everyone will say, “I’ve heard this before!” so you can use them for recreation with confidence.

The folk dance songs also come with choreography tutorial videos, so please use them as a reference.

Let’s sing together and have a wonderful time!

Playlist

[Music Play] Children’s Recreational Music: Rec Songs You Can Sing and Play
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1PicnicWith a lively, high-spirited melody, even the bus recreation and group activities...
2Child of AbrahamDance to slightly enigmatic lyrics, a lit—
3Country RoadRecommended for sing-alongs on the way to field trips and camping…
4JenkaThe Finnish folk dance “Jen…”
5Ten thousand feet in the AlpsAnytime, anywhere, as long as someone is by my side, right away...
6Genghis Khan (also refers to a Japanese grilled mutton dish called ‘Jingisukan’)With a hot melody, perfect for campfires and the like…
7Rock-Paper-Scissors TrainWe all played rock-paper-scissors, and then kept on the train...
8KorobushkaIt’s a Russian folk song that’s used as music for folk dancing…
9Mayim MayimAs a classic folk dance number, to many people...
10Where are you from?“Antagata…” which is cherished as a temari (handball) song
11If you’re happy and you know it, clap your handsMaking sounds with various parts of the body, happily…
12Burn, burn.A campfire with great flames blazing up…
13A quiet lakesideThis song was composed in 1936 at the YMCA Nojiri Lake...
14Camp da HoiA folk singer and actor, Ma...
15Oklahoma MixerRecreational activities for various events, including the sports day…
16Soran BushiMany schools and kindergartens that dance at sports festivals also use KITA…
17Goodbye for today.Affiliated with the Harmonii Center Public Interest Incorporated Foundation...
18Oh, the pastures are greenThe long-beloved NHK program, “Min…
19Let’s dance, fun Polechke!This song is sung and danced to at elementary schools and the like...
20O Bureneli
O Bureneli
Singing in a place with beautiful scenery looks like it would feel so good...
21Anpanman OndoLet’s have fun dancing to the Anpanman Ondo!
22Real GoneCarsAnthropomorphized Disney films tickle the imagination.
23KuikaimanimaniThis song, with its string of words like incomprehensible incantations, is…
24The sun sets behind the distant mountains.Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”…
25Playing bus (pretend bus play)Lyrics by: Yoshiko Kayama / Music by: Akira YuyamaA nursery rhyme about the excitement of riding a bus
26The Bear of the ForestIt's a song for which Yoshihiro Baba wrote Japanese lyrics based on an American folk song...
27A big songIt’s a song written and composed by Koichi Nakajima. Kake…
28Funiculi FuniculaA mountain railway in Italy called a “funicolare”…
29Gacha-Gacha BandBing Crosby’s hit song “MacNamara…”