At Out Of The Ark, we love singing about the world around us, especially our furry friends! We have a range of songs in Sparkyard featuring lots of characters from playful penguins to dinky dormice. These songs (and many more!) can be found by using the Sparkyard song filter on the ‘All Songs’ page – just select ‘Animals’ where it says ‘Theme’. 

Check out our top 15 animal songs to sing, to learn and to dance to!

Penguins!  

Did you know that there are 18 different types of penguin? Listed here in alphabetical order, with an explanatory introduction and verses capturing their unique movements, this song is loads of fun, a great challenge to master, and has plenty of scope for adding harmonies. It is ideal for Penguin Awareness Day in January or World Penguin Day in April – as well as all the days in between, when you just feel like doing ‘the waddle’!  

Hedgehog Highway  

Hooray for the hedgehogs! This has to be one of our top favourite songs. As well as providing opportunities for solo and small-group singing, this fun song contains a practical call to action, encouraging us all to give hedgehogs a ‘helping hand’. 

Mine’s A Mutt!  

A wonderful accumulative song all about a lovable dog, with plenty of scope for lots of obvious, fun actions. This is perfect for your EYFS and KS1 voices. 

Spring Chicken  

A well-known Out of the Ark classic about four little chicks and fluffy feathers! This one also comes with a fantastic BSL signing video. If you can’t get enough of this earworm, check out our brand-new Spring Chicken The Musical. 

Dawn Chorus  

A real hoot of a song! Build up through the different bird sounds to create a beautiful dawn chorus with simple part-singing.  

The Grasshopper Song  

A simple song full of fascinating facts! Ideal as an energetic action song for Early Years, but popular with older children too. Great for a choreographed presentation to an audience, or huge fun just to be sung and performed together. This one has a fantastic assembly on how small things can have ‘big’ qualities. 

Animals  

A lively song with lots of information about animals! This one was one of the animal songs featured in James B Partridge’s Assembly Bangers blog!  

The Dormouse Song  

Who doesn’t love a dormouse? A restful, reflective song about hibernation, where the verses describe the process of resting/slowing down, contrasting with a busier chorus. This song has great curriculum links to science and music.  

Hey Brown Duck  

This is a great one for KS1. Young children will enjoy this song about a laughing duck, including quacks, of course! Useful as part of a project learning about features of living things. 

Caterpillar Munch  

A great song for EYFS and KS1 voices, this follows the caterpillar as he fattens himself up on his journey to butterfly freedom. The vocal arrangement on the recording mirrors his growth from one verse to the next – from duet, to group, to ensemble. 

Buzzing A-Round  

A silly but satisfying three-part round that will not only build good listening skills and have you working well together, but will be sure to provide some entertainment along the way. This song comes with a great range of KS1 and KS2 assemblies. We dare you to try this one without smiling!  

Incey Wincey Spider  

One for the Early Years! A classic nursery rhyme about a little spider who climbed up the waterspout and was washed out by the rain. Listen out for the ascending and descending sounds in the backing track as Incey Wincey climbs up and comes back down! 

Les Animaux  

This song is from our curriculum-based songbook to engage with French vocabulary. This sweet little song features lots of vocabulary about animals and comes with a great Activity Sheet to help embed the learning.  

Songbird  

We couldn’t have an animal blog without including the songbirds! Inspired one morning by a beautiful blackbird, this song seeks, verse by verse, to answer the question ‘What could the message be to his song?’ With its light and jazzy feel, we hope everyone will be encouraged to sing along. 

You Will Never Meet A Dodo  

A poignant song all about some of the animals that have become extinct and how we need to look after the creatures around us. 

That’s a wrap, animal lovers! We’ve explored our top animal songs from the tiny spiders and caterpillars to the dogs and ducks – there is something for everyone! We wonder what creature hit is next to join the Sparkyard charts!  

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