Original Author: Unknown
Introduce preschoolers to the winter concept of hibernation with a catchy tune they’ll love! This playful bear song uses humor and repetition to help children understand how animals rest through the winter.
Sung to: “Are you sleeping?” Also known as “Frere Jacques.”
Bear is sleeping, bear is sleeping.
In a cave, in a cave.
I wonder when he’ll come out,
I wonder when he’ll come out.
In the spring, in the spring.
Original Author: Unknown
Make fine motor practice fun with this mitten-themed song! Using the familiar tune of The Farmer in the Dell, children sing, move, and practice putting on their winter gear.
Sung to: “The Farmer in the Dell”
Thumb in the thumb place
Fingers all together
This is the song we sing
When it’s mitten weather
Thumb in the thumb place
Fingers all together
This is the song we sing
When it’s mitten weather
Sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”
Winter’s coming, winter’s coming
It is dark, it is cold
I am bundled, snug and warm
Animals sleep, safe from harm
Sleds and snow
Cold wind blows
Sung to the tune of “Row, Row, Row your Boat”
Snow, snow, falling down (wiggle fingers downward)
Falling on the ground
Great, big white flakes (make circles with thumbs and forefingers touching)
That do not make a sound (fingers to lips and shake head “no”)
Sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”
Icy toes, chilly nose,
Wintertime is here.
My teeth chatter,
What’s the matter?
Wintertime is here, oh!
Icy toes, chilly nose,
Wintertime is here.
My teeth chatter,
What’s the matter?
Wintertime is here.
Sung to the tune of “Happy Birthday”
The winter wind blows you.
The winter wind blows you.
It gives you the shivers
From your head to your shoes!
Sung to the tune of “I’m a little Teapot”
I’m a little snow person,
Short and fat
Here are my buttons,
here is my hat.
When the snow comes out,
I cannot stay.
Slowly, I just melt away.
Sung to the tune of ” Three Blind mice”
I love snow, I love snow.
Soft, white snow; Soft, white snow.
It falls on the ground so soft and white.
Sometimes it falls all through the night.
Did you ever see such a beautiful sight
As soft white snow?
Five little snowmen standing in a row,
Each had a hat and a big red bow.
Out came the sun and it shone all day,
One little snowman melted away.
Four little snowmen standing in a row,
Each had a hat and a big red bow.
Out came the the sun and it shone all day,
One little snowman melted away.
Three little snowmen standing in a row,
Each had a hat and a big red bow.
Out came the the sun and it shone all day,
One little snowman melted away.
Two little snowmen standing in a row,
Each had a hat and a big red bow.
Out came the the sun and it shone all day,
One little snowman melted away.
One little snowmen standing alone,
He had a hat and a big red bow.
Out came the the sun and it shone all day,
The last little snowman melted away.
Sung to the tune of “Row, Row, Row your Boat”
Snow, snow, falling down
Falling on the ground
Big, fluffy white flakes
That do not make a sound
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