If you're happy and you know it clap your hands! (I have no idea of the title) :-)

My baby really likes The Itsy Bitsy Spider. I recall he liked watching me make the motions as early as 3 months.

"Roll over" There were 10 in the bed and the little one said "roll over" so they all rolled over and one fell out, then there were 9. :-)& so on...

"Oh Mcdonald had a farm"

Also known as "Old Macdonald" :)

I have to do this one (on both feet) after having done "Round and round the garden" one on either hand.

This little piggy went to market (Big toe)
This little piggy stayed at home (Next toe)
This little piggy ate roast beef (Next toe)
And this little piggy ate none (Next toe)
And this little piggy (Next toe)
Went wee wee wee!! (Tickle all the way up leg)
All the way home

I learnt here that it dates back to 1728!

Hokey Pokey is one song I remember from Kindergarten.

Down by the Bay is also a favourite of ours - we get to invent all kinds of crazy, rhyming combinations.

Heads... shoulders, knees and toes,
knees and toes.
Heads... shoulders, knees and toes,
knees and toes.
And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
Heads... shoulders, knees and toes,
knees and toes

(touching each part as you sing them)

... killed ourselves laughing when a "women's gym" ran an advertisement with the same tune but replaced the words with "arms, bellies, bums and thighs, bums and thighs..."

I'm a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat i can shake my __ and shake my __ like that. You can fill in the missing word with whatever you like.

"This ole man" This ole man, he played one...!

Any song that involves tickles, particularly one I know as "Round and round the garden". Once the child knows the song well, singing it extra slowly or with more emphasis/longer pauses is a surefire recipe for giggles.

Here are the lyrics and actions:

Round and round the garden, like a Teddy Bear (trace finger in a circle round their palm)

One step, two step (walk your fingers up child's arm)

Tickle you under there! (tickle under chin, under arm or tummy)

(OK, I'm going to stop after this, promise!)

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little start
How I wonder what you are

Did this one last night with my not-yet-two year-old, she's almost mastered doing the 'diamond' with thumbs and index fingers.

My kids LOVE this video (now only available second-hand).

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round, all through the town

The people on the bus go up and down...
The driver on the bus says "Move on back"...
The money on the bus goes "clink clink clink"...

We sometimes liked to dress it up with animal sounds - "The pigs on the bus go 'oink oink oink'" and so on... until my son said "do giraffe now!" "OK. The giraffes on the bus go.... um... I don't know what sound giraffes make "

"London's burning" is the first song my eldest actually learnt to sing.

London's burning, London's burning

Fetch the engine, fetch the engine

Fire, fire! Fire, fire!

Pour on water, pour on water

Source here, amongst others.

My daughter likes "Jesus Loves Me."

"5 Little Ducks"

Here is a link to the lyrics to the song: http://kididdles.net/lyrics/f005.html

Our daughter loved The Grand Old Duke of York, especially with all the actions. Of course in baby group and swimming lesssons, we would do the lifting up and down. We haven't sang that one in awhile.

I remember my daughter really enjoyed "Baby Bumblebee" when she was about 18 months old.

One two buckle my shoe
Three, four, knock at the door
Five, six, pick up sticks
Seven, eight, lay them straight
Nine, ten, a big fat hen
Eleven, twelve, dig and delve
Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting
Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen
Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting
Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty

This link says that there is no historical or political association, but I do wonder if the actions don't each roughly correspond to the ages of the numbers (except for the big fat hen...).

Frère Jacques is a nice song which is available in many languages

"1,2,3,4,5, once I caught a fish alive, 6,7,8,9,10 then I let it go again!

"Ring a Ring O' Roses, A pocketful of posies, Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!"

I am really enjoying this question Scott :)

How could I have forgotten the "Rainbow Song"

Red and yellow and pink and green,

Orange and purple and blue,

I can sing a rainbow, Sing a rainbow,

Sing a rainbow too!

Listen to your heart/eyes, Listen to your heart/eyes,

And sing everything you feel,

I can sing a rainbow, Sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow too

(colour combinations can change I think)

"Ten green bottles" hanging on the wall!

Baby Beluga - by Raffi

"Oranges and Lemons"

( This was a nice singing game in the playground with actions too )

Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's

You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's

When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey.

When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch.

When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney

I do not know, Says the great bell of Bow

Here comes a candle to light you to bed And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

We like the following two bouncing-on-the-knee songs:

The Galloping Major

Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump
Riding along on a charger
Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump
Proud as an Indian Raja
All the girls declare
He's a gay old stager
Hey! Hey! clear the way!
Here comes the galloping major!

you do extra big bounces on Hey! Hey! and yes, I know it's rather dated and probably not very PC

This is the way the farmers ride

to slow bounces:
This is the way the farmers ride:
Clip Clop Clip Clop

faster, double bounces:
This is the way the ladies ride:
Trit trot, Trit trot, Trit trot

really fast big bounces:
This is the way the gentlemen ride:
Gallopy gallopy gallopy

slow side to side rocking:
This is the way the old men ride:
Hobbledy hobbledy and down child drops down to the floor into the ditch

again, rather politically incorrect

She also loved this lap song that we sang at our library books for babies program.

A Smooth Road to London Town

We did this one at my daughter's music class. She really enjoys it. You seat them on your knees and sing.

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon,
Bumping up and down in my little red wagon,
Bumping up and down in my little red wagon,
Won't you be my darling.

One wheels' off and the axle's dragging,(bumb up one knee, bringing them off balance)
One wheel's off and the axle's dragging,
One wheel's off and the axle's dragging,
Won't you be my darling.

... it goes on, you can fix the wagon, then paint it...

1 little, 2 little, 3 little Indians,

4 little, 5 little, 6 little Indians,

7 little, 8 little, 9 little Indians,

10 little Indian girls/boys!