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Music corner by Susan Young, author of Music with the under-fours (RoutledgeFalmer) Songs for outdoors

Songs for outdoors

Collect rhymes and songs to sing with the children while they swing, bounce, climb and slide on outdoor equipment. The rhymes can easily be adaptations of songs that you sing at other times. And gather together some circle singing games to do regularly outside.

One nursery stores its repertoire of singing games on laminated cards and with the outdoor equipment as a reminder.

Here are ideas for swinging rhymes:

Swing, swing, swinging so gently

Swing, swing, swing to and fro

Swing, swing, swinging so gently,

Swing, swing, swing high and low.

Swing me over the water, swing me over the sea

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