Letter E: Songs & Rhymes


1) One Elephant Went Out to Play.
  • Print a set of elephant finger puppets from The Measured Mom. Use them to sing the song below. Put them on your own hand and then give your child a turn.
One elephant
Went out to play
Upon a spider's web one day
He had such enormous fun
He called for another
elephant to come.

(Repeat with two, three and four elephants)

Five elephants
Went out to play
Upon a spider's web one day
The web went creak, the web went crack
And all the elephants went KERSPLAT!



2) Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
  • Pass a stuffed tiger back and forth as you sing this song. My three loved watching this song on Youtube afterward.
Eenie, meenie, miney moe,
Catch a tiger by the toe.
If he hollers, let him go,
Eenie, meenie, miney moe!


3) Do Your Ears Hang Low?
  • Print a set of bunny ears (you can save the image below and print), cut them, and tape them onto different musical instruments. Let your child choose which instrument to use while singing this song. 

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder,
like a Continental Soldier?
Do your ears hang low?



4) Elsie Marley.
  • Have your child lay on a pillow, pretending to be Elsie Marley, while singing this song.
Elsie Marley's grown so fine,
She won't get up to feed the swine.
But lies in bed 'til eight or nine,
And surely she does take her time. 

5) E is for Echo from The Measured Mom.
  • Use actions while singing this song. Tune: Are You Sleeping?
Be my echo,
(cup your hand around your right ear)
Be my echo, 
(cup your hand around your left ear)
E says /e/,
E says /e/.
(make the sign for letter E)
Elephant and enter, 
(move arm like elephant trunk, sign for enter)
Eggs and elevator,
(pretend to eat eggs, pretend push button on elevator)
/e/. /e/, /e/,
/e/, /e/, /e/!
(make the sign for Letter E)

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