Calm garden songs for nurseries and preschools
Gentle songs about gardens, nature and little everyday moments, for toddlers and preschoolers in your setting. Sing them, play the videos and print the colouring pages for your room.
How to use the songs in your setting
Each song is short, slow enough to follow and built around one simple idea: planting a seed, counting apples, saying good night to the garden. Many use call and response, so children can join in long before they know the words.
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You are welcome to sing our songs and play our official videos in your nursery, preschool or playgroup, and to print the colouring pages for your room. See copyright and permissions for the details.
Circle time and routines
Call-and-response songs for the carpet, linked to Communication and language.
Days of the Week
Seven days, seven garden jobs. Sing them, shout them back, then stamp, clap and dance.
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What Do You Do?
Mud, stones and puddles. A call-and-response song about looking after your shoes.
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The Four Seasons Song
Falling leaves, puddles, singing robins and long sunny days. Can you guess the season?
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Hide and Seek
Count to ten, no peeking! Then find Lilly, Poppy, Rosy and Diggy hiding in the garden.
Read the story & lyrics →Garden and growing topics
Seeds, vegetables, ponds and British wildlife, linked to Understanding the world.
How Do Vegetables Grow?
Plant it, water it, wait for it. How carrots, radishes and beetroot grow from tiny seeds.
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Five Little Pots
What do you plant in five little pots? A counting and colours planting song.
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Weedy Weedy Weeds
The carrot seeds aren't growing. Time to dig, dig, dig the weeds!
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Pick Pick Pick
Do you want to see a trick? Learn how to pick apples, tomatoes and carrots.
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We’re Digging a Pond
Soil up, soil down! Diggy and Lilly dig a wildlife pond for frogs, bees, robins and dragonflies.
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Diggy Dots
There's a badger in my garden. The cheeky night-time badger digging song.
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Halloween Pumpkins Song
Plant, pick, scoop and sing about orange, white, green and blue pumpkins. A Halloween song that isn’t scary.
Read the story & lyrics →Moving and counting
Easy actions and counting games, linked to Physical development and Mathematics.
The Garden Dance Song
Shake, jump, dig and drop! Eight easy dance moves that teach how to plant a real seed.
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Ten Red Apples
A counting-down song. Ten red apples, one breezy tree, and lots of numbers.
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Ow Ow Ow
A gentle action song about prickly plants and the lovely things that are safe to touch.
Read the story & lyrics →Feelings and kindness
Sharing, helping and celebrating, linked to Personal, social and emotional development.
Buzzy Bee Don't Cry
A kindness song about helping a little bee who lost her tree.
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A Picnic in the Garden
“It’s not fair!” “Don’t worry, I will share.” A picnic song about sharing what you love.
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Happy Birthday to You
A calm garden-party Happy Birthday with no names in it, so it works for every child.
Read the story & lyrics →Quiet time and rest
Our slowest, softest songs, for settling down after lunch or at the end of the day.
The Garden Says Good Night
Mum puts the girls to bed while, out of the window, the whole garden goes to sleep too.
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Poppy Peep
The hedgehog who never goes to sleep. A gentle bedtime song about sleeping at night.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
The classic lullaby with gentle new verses: the garden goes to sleep and the stars come out one by one.
Read the story & lyrics →Printable colouring pages
Every song has a matching colouring page with the same garden scene and characters. Print as many as your room needs.
- All colouring pages
- How Do Vegetables Grow? colouring page
- Five Little Pots colouring page
- The Garden Dance Song colouring page
- The Garden Says Good Night colouring page
Simple activity ideas
- Plant along: sing The Garden Dance Song, then plant a real seed in a pot, following the same steps as the dance.
- Count down: use ten paper apples on a tree for Ten Red Apples and let the children take one away each verse.
- Five little pots: set out five pots and ask the children what to plant in each one, then sing Five Little Pots together.
- Puddle walk: sing What Do You Do? before going outside in wellies, and talk about looking after our shoes.
- Settling song: play The Garden Says Good Night before a quiet rest time, and name the garden animals that come out at night.
Questions nurseries ask
Can we play your songs in our nursery?
Yes. You are welcome to sing our songs and play our official videos and music from YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and other official music services in your nursery, preschool or playgroup.
Which ages are the songs for?
Toddlers and preschoolers. The songs are slow, calm and short, so younger children can listen while older ones join in with the actions and the call-and-response lines.
Can we print the colouring pages for our room?
Yes. Print our colouring pages and lyric sheets for your own class as often as you like. Please don't sell them or add them to paid packs.
Can we use the lyrics in our own worksheets or on our website?
Please ask us first. Email [email protected] and tell us what you'd like to do. We're often happy to help nurseries, schools, charities and children's services.
How can we tell you what the children thought?
We'd love to hear. Email [email protected] with the songs your children enjoy most, or a song idea for your topic.