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Cuibhlichean a’ Bhus

Song type: Actions, Active, Face to face, Finger play
Language: Gaelic
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, Toddler, Pre-school, Children
Topics: Bookbug, Gaelic

How to use this song with babies

Have fun trying out different actions, e.g.: touching your nose (or your child’s) for ‘the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep’; lifting your child or bouncing them for ‘the people on the bus go up and down’.

How to use this song with toddlers

Have fun trying out different actions, e.g.: touching your nose (or your child’s) for ‘the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep’; lifting your child or bouncing.

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

Ask your child for their suggestions – who would they like to see on the bus, and what actions should they do?

Song and rhyme words

Tha cuibhlichean a’ bhus a’ dol car, car, car

Car, car, car, car, car, car,

Tha cuibhlichean a’ bhus a’ dol car, car, car

Fad an latha

(Seinn a-rithist ach atharraich gu))

Tha an dùdan air a’ bhus a’ dol bip, bip, bip,

Tha a’ ghlag air a’ bhus a’ dol ding-a-ling-a-ling

Tha na wipers air a’ bhus a’ dol suis, suis, suis,

Tha an doras air a’ bhus a’ dol a-mach ‘s a-steach

Tha na daoine air a’ bhus a’ dol suas is sìos

Tha cuibhlichean a’ bhus a’ dol car, car, car

Car, car, car, car, car, car,

Tha cuibhlichean a’ bhus a’ dol car, car, car

Fad an latha

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