Children’s rhymes are often ancient folk, which have lasted over the years and have mostly been passed down orally. Children’s rhymes are used, among other things, in the kindergarten, to playfully expand the vocabulary of children. Since children ‘s rhymes are frequently melodic or sung in a kind of singing, they are often indistinguishable from children’ s songs.
Children ‘s rhymes can rarely be attributed to a particular author because they have appeared over the centuries in numerous variations, which is why the actual origin is not always clear or there are different attributions.
Some children’s rhymes were conceived by parents, others were conceived by children, and they are always subject to the change of time. A rhyme, which we know today, can change greatly in the coming years, as it is characterized by the users themselves.
Such children’s rhymes can be called for fun or play, but of course also used as counting rhymes. Here you will find numerous children’s rhymes, which have survived the times and found their way into our archive. Under some rhymes, you will also find references to origin or function.
If you have some children’s treasures in stock, which are not listed at this point, we would be pleased to receive a short message from you. Now we wish you a lot of fun with the existing selection of children’s rhymes.
Children’s treasures for pleasure
Bake bake cake
Bake bake cake,
the baker has called!
Who wants to bake good cakes,
who must have seven things:
Eggs and lard, butter and salt,
Milk and flour, saffron makes the cake cool!
Push, push into the stove ‘no.
That is the thumb
This is the thumb,
the shakes the plums,
it lifts them,
who carries them home,
the little rogue eats them all.
My mother sends me here
My mother sends me here,
whether the coffee was ready?
Say a nice compliment and the coffee is burned.
The milk has run out of the pot,
what remained in it, the cat is drinking.
And who is not,
he’s supposed to come to coffee quickly!
Heal, heal, blessings
Heal, blessings
seven days of rain,
seven days of sunshine,
everything will be healed again.
Heal, blessings,
seven days of rain,
seven days of snow,
does not hurt the child any more.
Bees, Bees
Bees, Bees,
hum hum hum,
to the flowers buzz around!
Dive into your head,
get the nectar droplets,
fly back to the bee house,
make us sweet honey
Ten little zappel men
Ten little zappel men flinch to and fro,
ten small fidgetiers are not that hard.
Ten little zappel men flutter up and down,
ten little zappel men do this again and again.
Ten little fidgeting men are fidgeting round about,
ten little zappel men who are not at all stupid.
Ten little zappel men like to play hideout,
ten little zappel men are gone.
Ten little zappel men are now back,
ten small fists call loudly: Hurray!
Hoppe Hoppe Reiter
Hoppe Hoppe Reiter,
when he falls, he cries.
If he falls into the ditch,
the ravens eat him.
If he falls into the hedges,
the snails eat him.
If he falls into the swamp, the rider does: plumps!
Sitting on a branch
Sitting on a branch,
hops from branch to branch,
cuckled into the bird’s nest,
there is a laugh,
Blums it’s down there.
The chicken
A chicken that ate,
it is hardly believed,
the leaves of ‘nem gumball,
then went to the Hühnerstall
and put a rubber ball!
There’s a thaler
There’s a thaler
go to the market,
buy a cow
and a calf to it
The calf has a tail,
dideldidel-dänzchen.
Early in the morning at six
Early in the morning at six
comes the little hex ‘.
Early in the morning at seven
she cooks yellow beets.
Early in the morning at eight
coffee is made.
Early in the morning at nine
she goes to the barn.
Early in the morning at ten
she fetches wood and spän ‘
fires at eleven,
then cook until twelve:
Frogs’ and cancer and fish.
Hurtig, children, come to the table!
A little dickmadam
A little dickmadam
drove with the railway.
Dickmadam, who laughed,
Railway that crashed.
One two Three,
and you are free!
Piep, Piep, Piep
Beep, beep, beep,
we all like each other,
every one can eat what he can,
just not his sideman;
and take it very exactly,
not his wife;
and also not the dishes,
otherwise it’s in the stomach.
Once upon a time there was a man
Once upon a time there was a man,
who had seven children,
the children said:
Father tell us a story.
Then the father began,
Once upon a time there was a man,
who had seven children …
Knife, fork, scissors, light
Knife, fork, scissors, light
are not for small children
Advent, Advent
Advent, Advent
a light burns
first one then two
then three then four
then the Christ Child stands before the door
and when the fifth candle is off
then you have Christmas.
