A beautiful uplifting Spring song, celebrating the daffodils and friendship.
All around the daffodils
One, two, three,
If you want to find a friend,
Just choose me!
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All Around the Daffodils is the perfect Spring song to sing in a group at this time of year. The children stand in a circle and hold hands up high to form arches or windows. One child is chosen to hold the small bunch of daffodils, and starts to weave in and out of the windows. As the words ‘just choose me!’ are sung, the first child takes the hand of whoever is the closest, and then the two children carry on going in and out of the windows. The song is repeated until all the children are holding hands in a long snake, an adult can make a bridge against the wall, and then they all go round and under the bridge for a last time.
Circle games are wonderful for children to gain confidence with new friends, learning to follow the rules of the game and wait their turn, all excellent preparation for school and social development.
Check out our Spring Lesson Plan for a 35 min structured music lesson full of fun Spring themed ideas or our Easter Lesson Plan for plenty of bunnies and hot cross buns!!.
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Linda says
April 22, 2014 at 1:37 pmHi!
Thanks for this great song and blogpost. Please note that your notation looks like it starts in C maj, but end in D (dorian).
In any case, thatnks for posting this, and not charging anything for it! 😉
Sara Mullett says
April 22, 2014 at 1:46 pmThank you for pointing that out Linda – will change it! I guess that’s what you get for writing sheet music out late at night!!!
Jill says
March 3, 2014 at 4:46 amThis is perfect for welcoming spring!
Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!
Beth Cheng says
April 16, 2013 at 10:13 pmLovely. thanks for sharing!
Sara_QCMusic says
April 30, 2013 at 7:56 pmthanks Beth!
Sara Ballard says
April 7, 2013 at 2:12 pmI struggle in thinking of fun ways to add music to our learning because I’m not very musical myself. I make good attempts though because my boys love it and learn from it. I just subscribed to your site to get some more fabulous ideas. I love this Daffodil song idea!
pinkoddy says
March 4, 2013 at 10:05 amOh this is really lovely. Thank you for sharing.