Sanitizing -or making up jewish themed nursery rhymes/songs

Yehudis2

Sun, Dec 25 2005, 8:09 am

Hello all,

I would love to hear from you the songs or little ditties you share with your kids - the ones you've made up or heard from others.

Here's 2 of mine that both my kids love

Based on the 5 little pigs - that you usually do with the toes on the feet and on the last verse you run your finger up and tickle them under the arm.

Girl Version

One little girl went to Seminary,
One little girl stayed home
One little girl bake challo
One little girl gave tzedoko
And one little girl danced round and round the kallah!!

Boy version

One little boy went to yeshiva,
one little boy stayed home
One little boy learnt torah
One little boy learnt mishna
And one little boy danced round and round on simchas torah!!

2. Based on the song of three blind Mice

3 times a day,
H' makes us pray
Shacharis is the morning tune,
Mincha in the afternoon
Maariv by the light of the moon
3 times a day, 3 times a day.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Yehudis

chanala

Sun, Dec 25 2005, 8:36 am

My DH does this in many situations just to make me laugh! Smile

For example, the chess pieces are rabbi, rebbetzin, chazzan (an extra, one from the shul you'd NEVER set foot in), gabbai (ditto), board president (ditto), and two pawns short of a minyan! Someone get on the phone!!

Tefila

Sun, Dec 25 2005, 11:29 am

I have a tape of jewish nursery rymes. Wish I could find it to recommend Confused

ring around the torah a pocket full of mitzvohs of mitzvohs we all go down

3 times a day. 3 times aday. Hashem hears us pray, Hashem hears us pray. shacharis in the morning to, mincha we say in the afternoon, maariv by the light of the moon. 3 times a day, 3 times aday (tune 3 blind mice)
Plus there is many many more. It's an old tape catchy cute etc

timeout

Thu, Dec 29 2005, 12:03 am

The only thing we've changed is..

Twinkle, Twinkle Cochavim high up in the shomayim when you say Shema tonight everything will be all right.....

Mommy F.

Wed, May 21 2008, 8:27 pm

tune to the song 'ring around the rosie a pocket full of posies'

Ring around the Torah a pocket full of mitzvohs,
mitzvohs, mitzvohs
we all fall down

Marion

Thu, May 22 2008, 1:30 am

Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake
Baker's man
Bake me a matza as fast as you can
Roll it, and prick it, and mark it with an S
And put it in the oven for 18 minutes or less.

(We only use that one one week a year...)

mummiedearest

Thu, May 22 2008, 9:49 am

I don't kosher up rhymes. if I don't approve of the original, I don't use it.
though I like a book my mother got for my son, with a rhyme about making challahs. I would quote it, but I feel strange putting the entire text of the book online.

it's called "braid the challahs," if you're interested.

Clarissa

Thu, May 22 2008, 9:55 am

I haven't "sanitized" rhymes or Jewishized them, but I have made a couple of changes. With my older kid, when I sang rock-a-bye baby, instead of "down will come baby, cradle and all," I sang, "safe will be baby, cradle and all." I just didn't enjoy singing about a baby falling out of a tree because his parents were idiots and stuck a cradle on top of a tree.

With This Little Piggy, I changed the roast beef every time I did it, just to keep things interesting. I cook different things all the time, so I figured my kid could hear about a pig with a varied diet. Sometimes he ate tofu, sometimes he ate pad thai, sometime he ate broccoli or whatever.

Clarissa

Thu, May 22 2008, 12:29 pm

I was confused about the s, as well.
Other possibilities:

Roll it and prick it and don't make a mess
Roll it and prick it and prepare to ess (or fress)
Roll it and prick it and soon you will bless
Roll it and prick it and try not to stress

sunshine!

Thu, May 22 2008, 12:55 pm

We do this little berele..

This little berele went to Yeshiva,
this little berele stayed home,
this little berele had cholent,
and this little berele had none,
this little berele went wee wee wee
all the way home.

Also, there are these like:

I ran around the corner
and I ran around the block
and I ran right into a bakery shop
and I looked up high,y'know what I saw?
Right, a mezuzah hanging on that door,
So I stood up proud and I shouted out loud,
Hey I am in a Mezuzah crowd
We love mezuzah, kiss kiss

tune: this old man
This old man got on a bus,
he needed a seat from one of us,
so I got up as you can expect
an older person I respect!

MiracleMama

Thu, May 22 2008, 12:59 pm

sunshine! wrote:

Very very cute! What is the tune for the middle one?

sunshine!

Thu, May 22 2008, 1:17 pm

Marion wrote:

Perhaps the S is for shmurah...

Marion

Thu, May 22 2008, 2:49 pm

MiracleMama wrote:

Maybe the S is for Shmurah? Seder? Maybe her child's name starts with an S? Idk. I was wondering too.

Yes, "s" is for shmura. But DS#2 is Shai, so it works that way too.