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Here's a Little Blackbird

Song type: Actions, Active, Calm
Language: English
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, Children, Pre-school, Toddler
Topics: Bookbug

How to use this song with babies

Babies love looking at faces. Hold your baby so you can both look at each other. This lets them see your facial expressions and the shape of your mouth as you sing or rhyme.

How to use this song with toddlers

Remember to sing songs or say rhymes slowly and clearly to give toddlers a chance to join in with the words. You could always make up some of your own actions like hopping or pointing to your toes to help little ones make sense of the words in this song.

How to use this song with 3 to 5-year olds

This is a great song to sing when you're with children at the park or in the garden and you spot a bird. This helps children make connections between what they're seeing and the words of the song which helps to support their language development.

Here's a Little Blackbird lyrics

Here’s a little blackbird,

(Here’s a little blackbird)

Hopping all around,

(Hopping all around)

She’s trying to make the worms come out the ground

(She’s trying to make the worms come out the ground).

Here’s a little blackbird,

(Here’s a little blackbird)

Singing a song,

(Singing a song)

She’s telling her babies that their dinner won’t be long

(She’s telling her babies that their dinner won’t be long).

Watches everywhere she goes,

She’s carefully checking between her toes.

Finding tiny things to eat,

So she can give her baby birds a tasty treat.

(Repeat verse)