Circle Games

A la Rueda de San Miguel - lesson ideas

Acka Backa - lesson ideas

A Tisket A Tasket - 2nd grade lesson ideas; 4th grade lesson ideas

Blue Bird - lesson ideas

Button You Must Wander - lesson ideas

Charlie Over the Ocean - lesson ideas

Circle Round the Zero

Players stand in a circle clapping the beat, spaced slightly apart from each other. The leader walks around the outside of the circle; at "Back, back zero," he stands back to back with one of the players; at "Side, side zero," he stands beside him; at "Front, front zero,' he stands facing the child chosen; at "Tap your lovin' zero,' he taps him on the shoulders. The game is repeated, with the first leader taking the place of the one he has chosen. (from kodaly.hnu.edu)

Closet Key - lesson ideas

Players form a ring with hands behind them. Verses 1 - 2: One player with a key walks around the outside of the ring and places the key in someone's hands, while leading the singing. Verse 3: The player with the key leads the singing. Walker rejoins the circle and the player with the key becomes the new leader. (from kodaly.hnu.edu)

Columbus Sailed with Three Ships - visual aids

Did You Ever See a Lassie - lesson ideas

The players form a circle and, as they sing "this was and that way," one player chooses a motion which the others imitate. At the end of the song, the child in center chooses another child to be "it." If a boy is chosen, the word "Lassie" becomes "Laddie." (from kodaly.hnu.edu)

Farmer in the Dell - lesson ideas

Grizzly Bear - lesson ideas

Hop Old Squirrel - lesson ideas

Jolly Miller

Marching 'Round the Levee

Mister Rabbit

Children form pairs and stand facing each other while clapping partner's hands on the beat. One child hops around during song and steals a partner by "cutting in." The partner cut out becomes next "rabbit." Call is performed by leader outside the circle. (kodaly.hnu.edu)

Naughty Kitty Cat - lesson ideas