Zoo Animals Books, Rhymes, and Songs

 

Enjoy our collection of zoo animal, elephant, tiger, monkey, and giraffe songs, rhymes, felt stories, and books for preschool and kindergarten.

 

 

 

 

1, 2, 3 to the Zoo	Zoo Ah-Choooo	The Happy Lion	Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Going to the Zoo	'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day	If I Ran the Zoo	If Anything Ever Goes Wrong at the Zoo
Color Zoo	My Visit to the Zoo	Zoo Animals	I Want To Be A Zookeeper
My Heart Is Like a Zoo	Good Night, Gorilla	Bruno Munari's Zoo	Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo
The View at the Zoo	Zoo

Zoo Rhymes, and Songs

Chants:

We'r Going to the Zoo Zoo
We're going to the zoo zoo zoo.
How about you you you.
You can come too too too.
Wer'e going to the zoo zoo zoo.

The Zoo Is Lots of Fun
One, one, the zoo is lots of fun.
Two, two, see a kangaroo.
Three, three, see a chimpanzee.
Four, four, hear the lions roar.
Five, five, watch the seals dive.
Six, six, there's a monkey doing tricks.
Seven, seven, count the elephants--eleven.
Eight, eight, a tiger and his mate.
Nine, nine, penguins in a line.
Ten, ten, I want to come again!

In The Zoo
This is the way the elephant goes,
With curly trunk instead of nose. (Clasp hands and move arms back and forth)
The buffalo all shaggy and fat,
Has two sharp horns in place of hat. (Point fingers out from forehead)
The hippo with his mouth so wide,
Lets you see what is inside. (Open and close hands to make mouth)
The wiggly snake upon the ground,
Crawls along without a sound. (Weave hands back and forth)
But the monkey see and monkey do,
Is the funniest animal in the zoo. (Pretend to be a monkey)

Monkeys Songs and Rhymes

Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree
Five little monkeys swinging in a tree.
Teasing Mr. Crocodile –
"You can't catch me, you can't catch me,"
Along comes Mr. Crocodile just as quiet as he can be. 
And SNAP! (clap hands once)
(Continue song counting down until 0 little monkeys.) 
Along comes Mr. Crocodile, just as fat as he can be!

Monkey printables for Monkey Stick Puppets

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his head!
Mama called the doctor, and the doctor said
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”

Little Monkey Swinging in the Tree
 

Stand in a circle.

Little monkeys swinging in the tree, (Stand in a circle)
All hold hands and swing with me. (Hold hands)
Swing up high and swing down low, (Swing hands high then low)
Swing in the tree, now don't let go! (Hold up hands very high)
Swing, swing, like I do. (Make small swinging motions)
Swing like monkeys in the zoo. (Swing hands back and forth)