The two favorites in our house have been Swinging on a Star and Teddy Bears Picinic. Sometimes we just make up songs using our names or names of the kids friends. Gets pretty silly, but the kids love it. When there is a group of kids, I use a song that they can plug their own thought into, like (Now don't take offense anyone!) He's Got the Whole World in His Hands with kids plugging their own words for what He's got.

I was read A.A. Milne poems as a child. I gave my daughter a nice volume including Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young when she turned 6. She took to them immediately, and got great joy in learning them by heart. Halfway Down the Stairs is her favorite. I highly recommend these poems to all kids (and parents, too). Now, if I could only figure out how to set them to 12 bar blues!

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