What Are You Favorite Songs to Sing with Your Children?

Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee
Wheels on the Bus
If You're Happy and You Know It
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Grand Old Duke of York
Ring Around the Rosie

I've been working on the railroad.
Twinkle Twinkle
the ABC Song
Baa Baa Black Sheep
The Itsy Bitsy Spider

We all live in a yellow submarine
The star spangled banner

Some where over the rainbow
Its not easy being green

I sing a lot, and my children usually ask me to stop. When they were littler, they absolutely loved to sing The Wheels on the Bus. The other songs we sang were:
Grand Old Duke of York
Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree
Carra Barra Wirra Canna
Little Peter Rabbit
Old MacDonald
Twinkle Twinkle
This Old Man
Incy Wincy Spider
Quartermaster's Store
Baa Baa Black Sheep

"Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley.

You are my Sunshine, but I change the last few words.

Instead of--you'll never know dear how much I love you, please don't take my sunshine away.

I sing--you'll always know dear, how much I love you, please always keep my sunshine safe.

I feel like it's almost jinxing them to say please don't take them away.

Nellie the Elephant has always been a favorite. We like the Toy Doll version but I'm sure there are others that aren't by punk bands.
I don't think there isn't a Wiggles song we don't love. Rock a Bye a Bear is a huge favorite. They've done a couple albums of nursery rhymes recently too.
Truthfully though, we don't limit to just kids songs. And there isn't a heavy rotation of kids songs in our house. I really hate the singer on so many of those children's CDs. There are only a small handful of children's singers that I enjoy listening to.

Both my kids love The Beatles, esp the Yellow Submarine album. We sing those a lot. Then the usual standards: "Twinkle, Twinkle/ABC Song", "Jingle Bells" (all year round), "Wheels on the Bus", "You are My Sunshine", "Happy Birthday", "Mr. Sun", "Hokey Pokey", "This Old Man", "Old MacDonald", etc.
I also make a lot of the songs we sing. My husband thinks I should make a kids album- lol. Some of the tunes off of Mom's Greatest Hits include "Naked as a Jaybird (The Bath Song)", "Ducky in the Dirt", and "Yummy, Yummy to my Tummy". I interject their names in there too, and they love it. In fact, I think they love the homemade songs the best. :)

Songs my kids particularly liked at age 2+
Thank God I'm a Country Boy -John Denver
Bye bye Miss American Pie
Linda Rodstadt greatest hits
Kenny Rogers greatest hits
Jim Croce Greatest Hits
Broadway show tunes - Annie, Wicked, Little Woman, Phantom, Les Mis (My kids particularly loved this) Miss Siagon, Beauty and the Beast etc...
I will Survive
It's Raining Men
It's a SunShine Day (Brady Bunch)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Sweet Caroline
Jeremiah was a Bull Frog

...all fun music that you would hear if you went to a dueling piano bar (I have prepared my kids well for when they are of age😀)

EDIT can't believe I forgot but my kids loved Billy Joel. Piano Man, The Entertainer, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant etc..,

When I had my daughter, I was surprised to see how many songs I didn't know! I bought a CD called 102 Children's Songs and we loved it. The songs are lively and quick. You can find it on www.twinsisters.com

From long ago..we had Wee Sing Tapes that came with a song book. We wore all those interactive songs out!

"Hush little baby, don't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird..." etc.

The rabbit song suggested by Galwaygirl is really fun. There are hand gestures that go with it.

My boy loves "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree". There are several that he learned from his gram (something about a little ford machine?) but I don't know those! :)

My kids are 9, 7 (boys) & girl who is 5...right now we are hooked on:
That one old song 'Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to & fro? Etc.

And an old Army Cadance my husband sings to them:
C130 Rollin Dow the slip
Airborne Daddy gonna take a little trip...etc. etc.
~I love this one, its my FAVE!

We also love a lot of todays popular music...as well as some Johnny Cash, The Doors, Some Violent Femmes, Bob Marley, The Beatles...

Fun question!

There's a song from Lady and the Tramp that I assume is called "La La Lu" that is very sweet. It's been a favorite lullaby for all of my kids, along with "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

Sandra Boynton has a book called "Snuggle Puppy" where most of the book is a song. You have to make up your own melody, so that's always a fun one because you can make up a new version every time you read it.

One of my kids really like the Mary J. Blige/U2 version of "One" so we used to have to sing that every night at bed when he was 2 or 3. Neither of us are good singers so that was always...interesting.

Finally, we used to sing "Leaving on Jet Plane" a lot. I don't know why because I don't think I know all the words, but there you go!

Elizabeth mitchell is a fun artist. I love her little bird cd.

Some great songs and i think it's great when momma's sing to or with their kiddos!!

Do you all teach your kids nursey rhymes too??