Wildlife Garden Songs
Full Album £9.99 • Single Track 69p
Select & Buy Individual Tracks Below.
Should you choose to purchase the full album, then you will receive/download all the songs from the album, plus karaoke-style backing tracks.
A quick explanation about the basic concept of each album.
The first half of the album contains the actual songs and how they correspond to the free downloadable PDF resources, which are: “Aims of the Songs”, “Recommended Reading” and the “Lyrics”.
The second half of the album contains karaoke-style backing tracks. Hopefully, these tracks will be useful for creating your own songs with alternative melodies or lyrics, these tracks could also be used for dance, exercise and movement classes.
Each full album download also includes instrumental versions of the songs.
Wildlife Garden Songs is a collection of 15 songs designed to help teach children about wildlife gardening. Within the framework of learning about this natural environment, the songs can also help to teach other concepts such as counting, positional words, bending knees while jumping and landing, as well as the theme of cooperation.
The Garden Song (Wildlife garden)
This song promotes and encourages wildlife gardening and uses the example of restoring a run-down garden and transforming it into a healthy, thriving natural environment for animals, insects, and plants.
Grasshoppers (Bending knees when jumping and landing)
This joyous song is to remind children to bend their knees when they jump and land, using grasshoppers as an example. The song may be used to encourage children to participate in an exercise that involves jumping.
Hedgehogs (Encouraging rolling movements)
This happy song encourages children to imagine being hedgehogs to carry out rolling movements such as somersaults and tumbling in a safe manner.
Something’s Crawling in the Flowers (Ladybird – Crawling)
These 4 songs were designed as examples to show how this rhyme and tune can be used as a fun game to teach about different habitats in the garden and describe some animals that may be found in those environments. Once the rhyme and tune have been learned the lyrics can be changed to fit many environments and animals.
Bugs (Compost heap recycling)
This is a fun song (sung by little bugs) about a compost heap and the organisms that live in it. The song may be helpful to illustrate how bugs break down waste matter and recycle nutrients.
Dragonflies (Encouraging listening and responding)
This dance or movement song aims to teach awareness of personal space using dragonflies as an example of controlled movement. The song describes dragon-flies dancing about and how they can change their movement to hover on the same spot for a time before darting away again
Something’s moving in the Tree Stump (Field Mouse – Nibbling)
These 4 songs were designed as examples to show how this rhyme and tune can be used as a fun game to teach about different habitats in the garden and describe some animals that may be found in those environments. Once the rhyme and tune have been learned the lyrics can be changed to fit many environments and animals.
Busy Bees (Encouraging cooperative behaviour & learning about bees)
In this cheerful song, bees are used to illustrate teamwork and cooperative behaviour with friends and family. The song also describes bees collecting pollen from flowers, making honey and living in a hive.
Suzie The Spider (Positional words)
This song teaches children about spiders and positional words such as up, down, left, and right.
Something’s Rustling in the Bushes (Rabbit – Peeking)
These 4 songs were designed as examples to show how this rhyme and tune can be used as a fun game to teach about different habitats in the garden and describe some animals that may be found in those environments. Once the rhyme and tune have been learned the lyrics can be changed to fit many environments and animals.
Ladybird (Counting song)
This song uses the spots on the ladybird’s wings to encourage children to count from 1 to 10.
Sunshine & Rain (Illustrates how both sunny and wet weather are important for plant growth)
This lovely song celebrates how sunshine and rainfall help to nurture the growth of plants in our gardens. The harmonies help to illustrate how a combination of both sunshine and rainfall are important for the well-being of plants.
Something’s Splashing in the Pond (Frog – Hopping)
Something’s Splashing in the Pond
These 4 songs were designed as examples to show how this rhyme and tune can be used as a fun game to teach about different habitats in the garden and describe some animals that may be found in those environments. Once the rhyme and tune have been learned the lyrics can be changed to fit many environments and animals.
Birds (Bird behaviour)
This song celebrates birds and acknowledges how their presence enhances our gardens. The song provides some descriptions of bird behaviour. The lyrics also describe the free nature of wild birds.
The Log Pile (Wildlife garden habitat)
This is a fun song about some creatures hiding in a log pile. Log piles provide food and shelter for insects and small animals and are an important feature in a wildlife garden. Children will enjoy the surprise ending of the song.