Children's Bakery Songs

Children can learn a lot from everyday experiences in the kitchen. Baking teaches math skills, fine motor skills and cooperation. There are many songs related to baking and baked goods that you can incorporate into a lesson or a baking session of your own.

  1. Hot Cross Buns

    • "Hot Cross Buns" has been sung around the globe for more than a century.

      Hot cross buns are small fruit buns decorated with an icing sugar cross. They were historically sold in England at Easter. Children around the world have been singing about hot cross buns for centuries.

      Hot cross buns!
      Hot cross buns!
      One a penny,
      Two a penny,
      Hot cross buns!

      If you have no daughters,
      Give them to your sons.
      One a penny,
      Two a penny,
      Hot cross buns!

    The Muffin Man

    • Drury Lane is a street in London.

      "The Muffin Man" is another traditional English nursery rhyme set to music.

      Oh, do you know the muffin man,
      The muffin man, the muffin man,
      Oh, do you know the muffin man,
      Who lives in Drury Lane?

      Yes, I know the muffin man,
      The muffin man, the muffin man,
      Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,
      Who lives in Drury Lane.

    The Gingerbread Song

    • Have a plate of cookies ready to share with the children.

      These lyrics can be sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques."

      Gingerbread, gingerbread,
      Yum, yum, yum! Yum, yum, yum!
      I like gingerbread, I like gingerbread,
      In my tum! In my tum!

    Ten Little Bakers

    • Children can learn so much from a bakery-themed lesson.

      This song is sung to the tune of "Ten Little Indians."

      One little, two little,
      Three little bakers.
      Four little, five little,
      Six little bakers.
      Seven little, eight little,
      Nine little bakers.
      Ten little bakers make cakes!

    Buns in the Bakery Shop

    • Look for bakery-themed books as well.

      You can rap this song for a change of pace.

      Six brown buns in the bakery shop,
      Six brown buns with sugar on the top.
      Along came (name a child) with a penny to pay
      he/she took 1 bun and ran away!

      Keep singing the song for each of the children in the group, changing the name and the number of buns as needed.

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