Alex playing a yellow ukulele with Butterfly, Frog, Bear and Duckling in the Australian countryside

Australian action songs for ages 0-6

Kids songs and
action nursery rhymes

Original songs for little listeners, built around one animal, one movement and one joyful invitation to join in.

♪ About three minutes each. Just long enough for a proper stomp.

Choose an adventure

Pick a friend and start moving

Meet the clay characters already stepping, splashing, flapping and scurrying through the Yellow Door.

Track list

#SongActionStatus
01 Wiggle Waggle Yellow Butterfly Flap Open now ▶ Watch
02 Big Blue Whale Splash Open now ▶ Watch
03 Sleepy Purple Owl Swoop Open now ▶ Watch
04 Little White Duckling Quack Open now ▶ Watch
05 Big Brown Bear Stomp Open now ▶ Watch
06 Little Red Ladybird Crawl Open now ▶ Watch
07 Little Pink Piglet Trot Open now ▶ Watch
08 Little Grey Mouse Scurry Open now ▶ Watch
09 Little Green Frog Hop Open now ▶ Watch
10 Little Orange Fish Flip Open now ▶ Watch
11 Little Black Puppy Bark Open now ▶ Watch
12 Little Golden Bee Zoom Open now ▶ Watch

Which song for which moment

Rainy day, stuck indoors

Big Brown Bear, Little Green Frog, Little Orange Fish. Big movements, whole body, best before you need them to sit still.

Learning to join in

Wiggle Waggle Yellow Butterfly, Little White Duckling, Little Pink Piglet. Simple repeated words a toddler picks up in two listens.

Before a nap or bedtime

Sleepy Purple Owl, Big Blue Whale. Slower, gentler, good before a nap or in the car.

While you cook dinner

Any of them. Each song runs about three minutes, needs no screen once it is playing, and the chorus repeats often enough that your child joins in without you.

More than three minutes of fun

What our songs actually do for your child

They are playful first. Underneath the giggles, they are quietly practising useful things.

Practises following two-step instructions

Halfway through, the song stops and asks: can you stomp like a bear? Can you stretch like a bear? The same skill as “shoes on, then bag”, just with nobody nagging.

Gives shy children a low-pressure way in

The children on the recording answer first, so your child can join on the second go, the tenth go, or simply watch from the couch.

Burns energy indoors

Rainy Sunday, small flat, the hour before dinner. Three minutes of stomping, hopping and flapping without another screen.

Becomes a song you reuse every day

Pick one for pack-up time or the walk to the bath. After a week, the song does the asking instead of you.

Rhyme, alliteration and sound-play build phonological awareness, the groundwork children draw on later when they learn to read. These are songs, not a reading programme, but the groundwork is real.

Built to be remembered

Why they stick

Every line follows the same three-part move. Once you hear it, you cannot unhear it.

The hit

One hard syllable, one beat. Stomp, stomp, stomp. Slow enough that a two-year-old can land on it.

The land

The line parks on one stressed syllable: big brown bear. Nothing trails off, so the tune stays up and the chorus is shoutable.

The tumble

A fast, light run that spills out. Rumble-tumble. Twice the syllables, half the weight. Try to clap it and you cannot. That contrast is the joy.

The invented words are not random

Wiggle-waggle. Splishy-sploshy. Tick-tock. The vowel climbs and bounces, making hooks feel like words your child already knows.

Two albums, two kinds of wonder

Album one is the body.
Album two is the mind.

Album one is about moving: stomp, splash, hop and flap. Album two, Wiggle Waggle Wonder Why, is about the questions that start arriving around three.

Can worms see? Do fish sleep? Can kangaroos hop backwards? Six of the twelve answers are no. Every no becomes a gentle “No, but they can…”

Move first. Wonder next.

Same warm world, same memorable hooks, and a new reason to keep asking questions.

Human heart.
Helpful tools.

How they are made

Made by a person, helped by machines

AI helps build the music and pictures faster than one person could alone, and it is always clear when it is used.

Every lyric, hook, action, character and creative choice is written, said out loud, walked around the kitchen, and rewritten until a four-year-old can sing it back. The tools accelerate. The heart is not something they can supply.

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