Playtime Marching Song is a high-energy action song that gets preschool and kindergarten children up and moving.
The Playtime Marching Song is perfect to use as a warm up song to start the class or for a transition between more quiet activities.
Just print the lyrics to the children’s song, play the MP3 download, and have the kids sing along to the Playtime Marching Song.
Activity Ideas:
1. The simplest way to use this song is to make a line, or circle, and march.
2. Try marching with tambourines, rattles or other fun noise making instruments.
3. Have all the children make a special Marching Hat. Each time the Playtime Marching song is sung, have all the students wear their hats.
4. Select one child to be the leader at the head of the line and provide them with a baton or whistle to make it extra special.
Lyrics
Playtime Marching Song
W: Attention! You ready to march?!
K: Yes Ma’am!
W: Ready, March! 1,2,3,4!
K: Pick your feet up off the floor
W: 5,6,7,8!
K: Time to march and don’t be late
W: Private!
K: Yes sir, I mean Ma’am sir!
W: Are you having fun?
K: Yes sir Ma’am!
W: Hup 2 3 4,
K: Hup 2 3 4
W: Left! Right!
K: Left! Right!
W: Company Halt!
W: 1,2,3,4!
K: Pick your feet up off the floor
W: 5,6,7,8!
K: Time to march and don’t be late!
“Attention”
“Yes M’am”
1-2-3-4
Get your feet up
Off the floor
5-6-7-8
Time to march now
Don’t be late
Every day at playtime
We march around the room
Tootle doo goes the trumpet
The big drum goes boom boom
The glockenspiel is ringing
Ding a ling a ding a dong
And everybody’s singing
The playtime marching song
1-2-3-4
Get your feet up
Off the floor
5-6-7-8
Time to march now
Don’t be late
Listen to the sergeants
And do just what they say
If they tell you to march backwards
You do it anyway
Make sure your shoes are shinny
Your collar’s stiff with starch
And swing your arms
And stomp your feet
And join the playtime march
1-2-3-4
Get your feet up
Off the floor
5-6-7-8
Time to march now
Don’t be late
We march around in circles
We march around in squares
We march around in singles
We march around in pairs
If the sergeant didn’t stop us
We’d march the whole day long
And stomp our feet
To the happy beat
Of the playtime marching song!
