Playsongs Playtime

A winding down, gentle, rocking episode, perfect for a quiet moment of calm or to soothe baby into nighttime sleep with Hugs, rhymed by author, Kaye Umansky, and with Kevin Graal and Stephen Chadwick providing the soundscape. Then a tune you’ll very likely find very familiar, but have never heard sung as a lullaby - until Mummy Went up to the Moon and Back with Debbie Sanders singing and Steve Gro...

A happy, clappy chorus of celebration for a nice clean nappy - no tears or fuss with a rhyme like this for baby to look forward to. Our Happy Nappy celebration is rhymed by Kevin Graal, ably accompanied by the Nappy Chorus, and our Bananas in Pyjamas song will get baby cheerfully dressed for bed (or going out) in no time with Sandra Kerr and Leon Rosselson singing it and teaching you the words lin...

High rise hoists are a joy for a baby, sturdy enough to support their head, and for a toddler - as long as you still have the strength to lift them above your head! So get ready for some energetic exercise with Catch him Crow rhymed by Leon Rosselson and a cascade of falling apples, and our Donkey Riding call and response, shanty song with Janet Russell, singing the calls, and Sandra Kerr, singing...

Sound exploring can be a noisy business, but we’re starting it very very quietly for your very very tiny baby as we gently play our rhyme Knock at the Door. But then, we open the door, and in come a noisy band singing Look who comes here to introduce a dolly, tapping on baby’s high chair, a caterwauling kitten, and a kazoo-croaking frog chorus. Let the sound exploration begin - with Kevin Graal rh...

A couple of Silly Billies give us a daft little game of tangled feet when Bill Anderson and Tom Sim get into a tussle, which slides baby off your knee and onto the floor. Meantime we meet our friends in a happy little leg-walker which lifts off into a glorious high-lifting knee-bouncer, or babe-in-arms dance with Rig a jig jig and away we go. Action time for babies and toddlers with Kevin Graal rh...

We’ve got two whole body upside downers for you and your baby or toddler to play with us. We’re catching fishes Underneath the Water, and playing heads down, tails up with the Dabbling Ducks.
 Sandra Kerr and Leon Rosselson are the rhymers and singers in this episode full of dangling (safely) upside down - it’s Playsongs Playtime.

Cheer up a grumpy toddler with our infectiously funny medicine - High Chilly Wang Wang Pills, and coax a baby into smiles by dancing them to that sunniest of all love songs, You Are My Sunshine. Kevin Graal is our pill-dispensing rhymer and Debbie Sanders is our sunshine-dispensing singer in this episode of Playsongs Playtime.

Join us and our two little tickly friends - Wiggle Worm and Ticklebird - to gently caress and tease those smiles out of your baby or toddler.  

We're playing the universal game of peekaboo, a game that babies and toddlers, the world over, love to play. So hide your face behind your hands, and play our rhyme, Hide and Seek, and our all-time favourite peekboo song, Can you play at peekaboo?  

Celebrate your new baby's exploration of their hands with our playrhyme, Handy Pandy Sugar Candy, and dance them into whole-body awareness with our playsong, We Love Baby. These two, easily-memorised and engaging ways to play with your little one can be shared with them from their earliest days and throughout their journey from babyhood to toddlerhood. 

Snuggle your baby or toddler close, while you softly lull them into sleepiness with our foot-patting rhyme, Shoe a Little Horse. Then sing or hum them to sleep with the hauntingly beautiful old lullaby, All the Pretty Little Horses.  Lullabies are as much a comfort for ourselves, as they are for our little ones. On one of those sleep-deprived nights, we can soothe ourselves through the desperate s...

We’re rocking you and your little one over the silvery sea in our playrhyme, The Golden Boat, and with our playsong, Rock Rock Rock my Boat. Both games support that stage in a little baby’s development, when they’re preparing themselves to manage that rollover from lying on their back to lying on their front. And these games work in different ways for your bigger baby or toddler just as enjoyably....

Pop a pretend soap bubble on baby’s nose with our playrhyme, Bubble, and for the serious business of getting baby bathed, we have our playsong, Splish Splash Splosh, in this episode of Playsongs Playtime.   Our 5-minute guided interactive play session is a perfect companion to a pretend bath or a real bath. So here’s the soap to wash your hands, now blow a big bubble and see where it lands! Pop!

We’ve a delicious musical menu of interactive play for you and your baby or toddler in this episode of Playsongs Playtime. For a tempting starter we have our playrhyme, Spoons, and for our main course we have our playsong, Sweet Potatoes.  This is mealtime fun you can have together even before your baby’s weaned. No time too soon to tap a tune on a spoon.   Our 5-minute guided play session is a pe...

We're going Off to the Park with Grandpa – dancing your baby or toddler all the way. And before you catch your breath, we'll whirl you both off again with Sally go Round the Sun. Hold hands with your toddler to support their free-styling footwork. Dandle a bigger baby on your knee, or dance with your baby supported against your shoulder, where they can feel the beat through you. 
Parks, birthday p...

Swing a toddler up and along with One to make ready. Or hold your toddler’s hand as they tight-rope their way along a wall with Miss Mary Mac. These two out-and-about leg walkers are especially good for reviving a tired toddler, but you can just as easily play them indoors with a baby on your knee. We’ll show you how. 
No walls, horses, elephants, or wings required ~ just five minutes free for som...

We’ve borrowed two playground games, Jelly on the Plate, and One Two Three A-leary, to give you and your baby or toddler an episode brim full of knee-bouncing fun. The outdoor skipping and bouncing tricks we played as kids with these two games, turn themselves nicely into indoor thrills for your little one, bouncing on your knee. No skipping ropes required. Just you and your little one and five mi...

Roll up, roll up with your baby or toddler for a thrill-filled five minutes of ups and downs and flying around in this episode of Playsongs Playtime. Our playrhyme, Bumblebees, has your little one flying up in the breeze, and our playsong, Five Little Froggies, has them perilously leaping high and low, to and fro. Lots of up and down actions and lifts with up and down words and sounds. Dance the t...

Hands up! We’ve got five people to introduce to you and your baby or toddler with our playrhyme, Tommy Thumb. It’s a very old fingerplay with a very big handful of play-learning to offer - it’s about having a conversation, it’s about taking turns, it’s about saying hello, it’s about finger awareness, and as your little one grows, it’s about developing finger dexterity and coordination. And we'd al...

Get ready for giggles and gentle play! The first episode of our second series begins with the beloved classic Round and Round the Garden – a tickling game that's been delighting babies and toddlers since teddies began. Watch your little one's face light up as the anticipation builds with each circle around their palm before that magical tickle moment arrives! Then we'll slow things down (and speed...

Hush a Bye Baby Bye hypnotically sways you and your baby or toddler into a soothing calm, perfect for you both, then Souallé takes over to rock you both into peaceful dreams.

Two Little Bats (you and your baby or toddler) go swooping and looping then 'they both fall asleep hanging upside down'. (Securely held of course!) Then we all go hopping, jumping, and bumping with Bob and the Frog.

Pony trotting knee riders are great games for bigger babies and toddlers and lovely for babes-in-arms held securely against you as you lightly trot on the spot. Ride away with Father and Mother and Uncle Tom and Clip Clop Clip Clop, My Little Pony.

A playrhyme and a playsong exploring some of those first sounds that we pick out of the jumble and play with together - whether travelling by when we're out and about or cosily sharing a noisy picture book together. Make tummy squeaks with Under Teddy's Jumper, and all kinds of animal sounds with I Went to Visit a Farm One Day.

We’ve got two leg walkers for you, both of them featuring daft little dogs. Leg Over Leg has one little dog leaping off to Dover while Two Small Dogs go trotting around Wales in sunshine and rain. Great knee-time fun for babies and toddlers.