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Action Songs for Kids:Things That Go! - The Monkeydoos from Harmony Square Kids Songs

Actions Songs to Get Toddlers and Preschoolers Moving: Things That Go: Harmony Square Kids Songs Get up, dance, sing and play with Maureen and her friends, the Monkey Doos! Go ape, go wild, go bananas, and smile! Designed to help young children develop motor skills through guided activities. Taps into a childs imagination. Kids imagine what it's like to be a frog, elephant, tiger, flamingo, crocodile and more. The Monkeydoos series engages young viewers with a program of simulated movements based on each video’s chosen theme, getting them off the couch and on their feet and helping to stave off childhood obesity -- a growing epidemic nationwide -- all the while creating a fun and energetic experience kids will enjoy again and again. “Monkeydoos Things That Go!” focuses on the world of vehicular motion -- planes, trains, boats, etc. -- combining live action footage of children with computer animation to teach various movements that mirror the featured vessels. Physical movement, especially when started at younger ages, has proven to develop motor and coordination skills that lead to prolonged health, emotional well-being, potential for improved academic performance, accelerated social adaptation and increased energy. In a series of fun activities set to upbeat original songs, host Maureen Straub and her simian friends Flip, Tumble and Twist welcome youngsters to fly like planes, putter like choo-choo trains and sail like boats. Songs like “Pogo Stick,” “My Magic Bicycle,” “My Little Red Scooter” and “Surf’s Up” focus on strengthening the legs and increasing balance, while “Paddleboat,” “My Canoe” and “Jet Plane” focus on developing the arms. Stretching is a key part of “Sailboats” and “Hot Air Balloon,” while “Clickety Clack” and “Polly the Trolley” work the body overall. And what kid doesn’t have a blast spinning around, which they can do with glee in “Whizzy the Helicopter.” The first title in the Monkeydoos series, “Monkeydoos Gallop, Hop & Stomp” received rave reviews and a Parents’ Choice Approval award. “Gallop, Hop & Stomp” has been redone with new animation and is now called “Go, Go Animals.” Mazzarella Media is an Emmy award-winning company that develops products to foster the fun and excitement of learning. Their products are designed to get kids thinking about themselves and the world around them and to enhance intellectual, social, emotional and physical growth by stimulating the imagination, nurturing creativity and developing a love for learning. For more information, call 1-800-477-7811. This video is beautiful in its simplicity. A few simple animated monkeys, children (this is what I think has my son hooked), and host Maureen (who looks the part of the really fun babysitter, very young herself), sing and dance to tunes such as "Tiger Paws, Hummingbird, Elephant Shuffle," and "To Catch a Crocodile." The songs are infectious and you will learn the words within the first three views of this video. They will quickly drive you nuts, but my son still relentlessly begs for us to put this video on for him. Though he is only 18 months, he has learned the "dance" moves and it holds his interest. Catchy, short (approx 20 minutes total run-time?), simple... I give a 4 star rating-- one star reduction for the mild annoyance factor (as with most children's music). Based on his incredible interest in this video, we have opted to order Potty Power, which is produced by the same company, in the hopes that he will be equally as interested in that video.

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Maureen: Do you like to hop? Do you like to jump? Maureen: Do you like to move your body? Maureen: Then come play with me and my friends: Maureen: The Monkey Doos! Flip: I'm Flip! Tumble: I'm Tumble! Twist: And i'm Twist! All: And we're the Monkey Doos! Go ape! Go wild! Go bananas! And smile! ♪ Just follow along and do what we do ♪ ♪ Sing and play with the Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Mo
nkey, Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey see, now monkey do! ♪ ♪ We like to sing and we like to play! ♪ ♪ We like to do things the Monkey Doo way! ♪ ♪ Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey Doos! ♪ ♪ Monkey see, now monkey do! ♪ Go ape! Go wild! Go bananas! And smile! Kids: Pogo Stick! Bouncing pogo stick* Maureen: Can you guess what I'm pretending to ride on? Maureen: It helps you bounce high in the air! Maur
een: You have to keep your balance though. Maureen: Can you guess? Maureen: It's a pogo stick! ♪ Balance on your pogo stick, hold on real tight. ♪ ♪ Get ready for a bouncy ride and pounce with all your might! ♪ ♪ Bounce high touch the sky! ♪ ♪ Bounce high almost fly! ♪ ♪ Bounce high touch the sky, almost fly, ♪ ♪ Riding on your pogo stick! ♪ ♪ It's a really bouncy ride! ♪ ♪ Balance on your pogo stick, hold on real tight! ♪ ♪ Get ready for a bouncy ride and bounce with all your might! ♪ ♪ Bounce
full straight ahead! ♪ ♪ Bounce forward like I said! ♪ ♪ Bounce forward straight ahead, like I said. ♪ ♪ Riding on your pogo stick is a bouncy way to travel ♪ ♪ Balance on your pogo stick, hold on real tight! ♪ ♪ Get ready for a bouncy ride and bounce with all your might! ♪ ♪ Bounce back here we go! Bounce back take it slow! ♪ ♪ Bounce back here we go, take it slow! ♪ ♪ Riding on your pogo stick is a bouncy way to go! ♪ ♪ Riding on your pogo stick is a bouncy way to go! ♪ Kids: Whizzy the Helico
pter! Maureen: Twist! What are you doing? Twist: I'm pretending to be a helicopter! Maureen: That looks like fun! Maureen: You can pretend to be a helicopter too! Maureen: Put your arms out like this, it's easy! Maureen: Come on you can do it too! ♪ My helicopter's name is Whizzy. It's about to fly! ♪ ♪ Propellers start to spin around here it's engine wide. ♪ ♪ Spinning, ever spinning, it flies through clouds and sky. ♪ ♪ Whizzy whirls, and rings, and twirls as it was flying by. ♪ ♪ But now it's
time to slow down, our flights about to end. ♪ ♪ Cause Whizzy gets me dizzy and now it's time to ♪ ♪ rest. ♪ Kids: Paddleboat! Maureen: Helicopters move through the air. Steamboats move through the water. Maureen: Steamboats have big paddle wheels that turn and make it go Maureen: Pretend you're a paddlewheel boat too! Maureen: That's the way you do it Flip! Maureen: Way to go Tumble! ♪ Paddle boats a movin', watch the paddle wheels turnin'. ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', steam engine is burnin'. ♪
♪ Paddle boats a movin', oh just watch it go by! ♪ ♪ Get your paddle wheels turnin', come and give it a try! ♪ ♪ Toot! Toot! ♪ ♪ Here the paddle boat whistlin' ♪ ♪ Toot! Toot! ♪ ♪ Everyone's listenin'. ♪ ♪ Toot! Toot! ♪ ♪ The same whistle blows as it cruises down the river, everybody knows. ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', watch the paddle wheels turnin'. ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', steam engine is burnin'. ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', don't just watch it go by! ♪ ♪ Get your paddle wheels turnin', come
and give it a try! ♪ ♪ Toot! Toot! ♪ ♪ Hear the paddle boat a whistlin'. ♪ ♪ Toot! Toot! ♪ ♪ Everyone's a listenin'. ♪ ♪ Toot! Toot! ♪ ♪ The steam whistle blows as it cruises down the river, everybody knows! ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', watch the paddle wheels turnin'. ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', steam engine is a burnin'. ♪ ♪ Paddle boats a movin', don't just watch it go by! ♪ ♪ Get your paddle wheels turnin', come and give it a try! ♪ Kids: Sailboat! Maureen: A paddleboat moves with the power of
a steam engine! Tumble: A sailboat moves when the wind blows! Maureen: Let's pretend we're sailboats blowing in the breeze! ♪ The sail lies on the deck. ♪ ♪ Waiting to unfurl. ♪ ♪ Rising slowly up the mast. ♪ ♪ It stretches wide to meet the world. The sail blows in the breeze. ♪ ♪ The sailboat sails gracefully up and down. Across the rolling seas. ♪ ♪ The sail swings to the left then right towards the shore. The sail moves slowly down. ♪ ♪ Gliding on the deck, once more. ♪ ♪ Clickety, clickety,
clickety, clack. Hear the train, it's coming down the track! ♪ ♪ Chug, chug, chuggin' up the hill it climbs. ♪ ♪ Listen to the whistle blow one time. ♪ Train whistle blows* ♪ Clickity, clickity, clickity, clack! Hear the train it's comin down the track! ♪ ♪ Chug, chug, chuggin' up the hill it climbs. ♪ ♪ Listen to the whistle blow two times. ♪ Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* ♪ Clickety, clickety, clickety, clack! Hear the train it's coming down the track! ♪ ♪ Chug, chug, chuggin' up th
e hill it climbs. ♪ ♪ Listen to the whistle blow three times! ♪ Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* ♪ Clickety, clickety, clickety, clack! Hear the train it's coming down the track! ♪ ♪ Chug, chug, chuggin' up the hill it climbs. ♪ ♪ Listen to the whistle blow four times! ♪ Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* ♪ Clickety, clickety, clickety, clack! Hear the train it's coming down the track! ♪ ♪ Chug, chug, chuggin' up the
hill it climbs. ♪ ♪ Listen to the whistle blow five times. ♪ Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Train whistle blows* Kids: My Magic Bicycle! Maureen: Bicycles are fun to ride. Maureen: Bicycles go when you pedal! Maureen: Let's pretend we're pedaling a brand-new shiny bike! Maureen: We can pedal fast! Maureen: Or we can pedal slow. ♪ You could ride your magic bicycle, ♪ ♪ To where you want to go. ♪ ♪ You can pedal real fast. ♪ ♪ Or pedal real slow
. ♪ ♪ Ride your magic bicycle, pedal to and fro. ♪ ♪ Ride your magic bicycle, go where you want to go! ♪ ♪ Pedal fast pretend you're racing in ♪ the famous Tour de France! ♪ ♪ Pedal fast and you can win it, go on and take a chance. ♪ ♪ Pedal fast keep on moving ♪ ♪ and you will win the race! ♪ ♪ Come on keep on peddling. Hooray! You won first place! ♪ ♪ If you could ride your magic bicycle to where you want to go. ♪ ♪ You could pedal real fast. ♪ ♪ Or pedal real slow. ♪ ♪ Ride your magic bicycle
, pedal to and fro. ♪ ♪ Ride your magic bicycle, go where you want to go. ♪ ♪ Pedal slow pretend you're riding, along the quiet street. ♪ ♪ Pedal slow and there's a chance, there's a friend that you might meet. ♪ ♪ Pedal slow keep your legs moving, ♪ ♪ People wave as you go by. ♪ ♪ Come on, keep on pedaling, now you can wave bye bye! ♪ ♪ You can ride your magic bicycle to where you want to go. ♪ ♪ You could pedal real fast. ♪ ♪ Or pedal real slow. ♪ ♪ Ride your magic bicycle, pedal to and fro. ♪
♪ Ride your magic bicycle, where you want to go! ♪ Kids: My Canoe! Maureen: Canoes are small boats that move when you paddle! Maureen: Would you like to help me paddle my canoe down the river? Maureen: Just kneel down like this and start to paddle! Maureen: You can paddle on your left. Maureen: And you can paddle on your right! Maureen: Come on, and help me paddle my canoe! ♪ I kneel in my canoe. ♪ ♪ You can too! ♪ ♪ I take my ore, it's not a chore, to paddle my canoe. ♪ ♪ One stroke on the lef
t. ♪ ♪ One! ♪ ♪ And one stroke on the right. ♪ ♪ One! ♪ ♪ Makes my canoe move straight ahead, canoeing's lots of fun! ♪ ♪ Two strokes on the left. ♪ ♪ One! Two! ♪ ♪ And two strokes on the right. ♪ ♪ One! Two! ♪ ♪ Makes my canoe move straight ahead, you can do it too! ♪ ♪ Three strokes on the left. ♪ ♪ One! Two! Three! ♪ ♪ And three strokes on the right. ♪ ♪ One! Two! Three! ♪ ♪ Makes my canoe move straight ahead, come and follow me! ♪ ♪ Four strokes on the left. ♪ ♪ One! Two! Three! Four! ♪ ♪ Fo
ur strokes on the right. ♪ ♪ One! Two! Three! Four! ♪ ♪ Makes my canoe move straight ahead, come on let's paddle more! ♪ ♪ I kneel in my canoe. ♪ ♪ You can too! ♪ ♪ I take my ore, it's not a chore, to paddle my canoe! ♪ Maureen: Come on and ride the waves with us! ♪ When you surf in the ocean, ♪ ♪ you gotta balance on your board. ♪ ♪ Pretend you're in the ocean on the California shore. ♪ ♪ Surf's Up ♪ ♪ The tides rolling in, balance on both legs ride the waves in! ♪ ♪ Wa oooh ba ba oooh. ♪ ♪ Ba
ba oooh ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ To surf in the ocean you gotta balance on your board. ♪ ♪ Pretend you're in the ocean. ♪ ♪ On the Honolulu shore. ♪ ♪ Surf's Up! ♪ ♪ The tides rolling in, balance on your left leg ride the waves in! ♪ ♪ Wa oooh! ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ To surf in the ocean you got a balance on your board. ♪ ♪ Pretend you're in the ocean. ♪ ♪ On the Australian shore. ♪ ♪ Surf's up! ♪ ♪ The tides rolling in, balance on your left leg ride the waves in! ♪ ♪ Wa
oooh. ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ Ba ba oooh! ♪ ♪ To surf in the ocean you gotta balance on your board. ♪ ♪ But now I'm really tired, I'm swimming back to shore. ♪ ♪ Now, I'm really tired. I'm swimming back to shore. ♪ Kids: Jet Plane! Maureen: Can you guess what Twist is pretending to be? Maureen: That's right an airplane! Maureen: Put your arms out like this and pretend they're the wings of your airplane! Maureen: Get ready to take off! Maureen: Zoom! ♪ Make believe you are a jet plane
, ♪ ♪ with wings stretched out so wide. ♪ ♪ Get ready for the take off, gonna take an airplane ride. ♪ ♪ Fly up over house tops, fly over mountains high! ♪ ♪ It's fun to be a jet plane flying through the sky. ♪ ♪ Make believe you are a jet plane, ♪ ♪ with wings stretched out so wide. ♪ ♪ When you hit some stormy weather, now it's a bumpy ride. ♪ ♪ Fly low over the oceans, fly low and touch the trees. It's fun to be a jet plane. ♪ ♪ Fly from sea to shining sea. ♪ ♪ Make believe you are a jet plan
e, with wing stretched out so wide. ♪ ♪ Time to land your jet plane, time to end this airplane ride. ♪ ♪ Swoop around the airport, fly slowly going down. ♪ ♪ Your jet plane ride is over when you touch the ground. ♪ ♪ Your jet plane ride is over when you touch the ground. ♪ Kids: My Little Red Scooter! Maureen: Do you know what Flip is riding? Maureen: You're right! Maureen: It's a scooter! Maureen: A little red scooter. Maureen: You know you can pretend to ride a scooter. Maureen: First you have
to hold onto the handlebars. Maureen: And then you push with your leg. Maureen: You can push with your left. Maureen: Or you can push with your right. Maureen: Let's ride our little red scooter around the park! Maureen: Let's go! ♪ Got my little red scooter and I'm going for a ride. ♪ ♪ Red scooter! Go red scooter! ♪ ♪ Just a push with my foot and gee I'm really flying. ♪ ♪ Red scooter! Go red scooter! ♪ ♪ Push with my left, push with my right. Keeps me moving out of sight. ♪ ♪ My red scooter.
♪ ♪ Gonna push with my left and balance on my right. ♪ ♪ Red scooter! Go red scooter! ♪ ♪ Gonna push with my left and balance on my right. ♪ ♪ Red scooter! Go red scooter! ♪ ♪ Push with my left, stand on my right. ♪ ♪ Keeps me movin', I'm feeling alright. ♪ ♪ My red scooter. ♪ ♪ Gonna push with my right and balance on my left. ♪ ♪ Red scooter! Go red scooter! ♪ ♪ Gonna push with my right and balance on my left! ♪ ♪ Red scooter! Go red scooter! ♪ ♪ Push with my right, stand on my left. ♪ ♪ Keeps
me moving that's what I like best. ♪ ♪ My red scooter! ♪ ♪ My red scooter. ♪ ♪ My red scooter. ♪ ♪ My red scooter. ♪ ♪ My red scooter. ♪ ♪ My red scooter. ♪ Kids: Hot Air Balloon! Maureen: Hmm Maureen: Twist is floating through the air. Maureen: Do you know what Twist is pretending to be? Maureen: I know! Maureen: She's pretending to be a hot air balloon! Maureen: Let's pretend too! ♪ Let's take a quiet ride. ♪ ♪ In my hot air balloon .♪ ♪ Release the rope and soon you'll float way up towards th
e moon. ♪ ♪ Soar up among the clouds. ♪ ♪ Drift slowly through the air. ♪ ♪ Spin and turn, spin and turn. ♪ ♪ You haven't got a care. ♪ ♪ High above the treetops, through the skies of blue. ♪ ♪ Down, up, down and up. ♪ ♪ That's so much fun to do. ♪ ♪ Sail through puffy clouds. ♪ ♪ With your favorite friend. ♪ ♪ It's time to gently touch the Earth our trip's come to an end. ♪ Kids: Polly the Trolley Maureen: Have you ever seen a trolley? Maureen: People ride a trolley to go from one place to anot
her. Maureen: I once rode a trolley. Maureen: It's name was polly. Maureen: The conductor of the trolley rang a bell. Maureen: The people on the trolley bounced up and down Maureen: To stop the trolley, the brake man pulled on the brake Maureen: And when it started to rain, the wipers on the trolley went from side to side ♪ There's a trolley named Polly she's rolling down the track. ♪ ♪ You can hear her wheels rolling click click clack clack. You can hear wheels rolling click click clack clack.
♪ ♪ The conductor rings a bell and makes Polly sing. ♪ ♪ He rings Polly's trolley bell ring ring ring. ♪ ♪ He rings trolley's trolley bell ring ring ring ring ♪ ♪ Click, click, clack! ♪ ♪ Polly the Trolley is rolling down the track. ♪ ♪ The people on the trolley go bouncing up and down. ♪ ♪ Up and down as they travel through the town. ♪ ♪ Up and down as they travel through the town. ♪ ♪ Up and down. ♪ ♪ Ring ring ring. ♪ ♪ Click click clack. ♪ ♪ Polly the trolley is rolling down the track. ♪ ♪ T
he break man on the trolley push and pulls the trolley's break. ♪ ♪ Polly can't go faster so push and pull is all it takes. ♪ ♪ Polly can't go faster so push and pull is all it takes. ♪ ♪ Push and pull. ♪ ♪ Up and down. ♪ ♪ Ring, ring, ring. ♪ ♪ Click, click, clack! ♪ ♪ Polly the Trolley is rolling down the track. ♪ ♪ The wipers on the trolley move from side to side. Polly's wipers move from side to side. ♪ ♪ Polly's wipers move when it rains outside. ♪ ♪ Side to side. ♪ ♪ Push and pull. ♪ ♪ Up
and down. ♪ ♪ Ring, ring, ring. ♪ ♪ Click, click, clack! ♪ ♪ Polly the trolley is moving down the track. ♪ Maureen: Did you have fun playing with us today? Tumble: We had lots of fun! Maureen: We learned a lot about things that go! Flip: We sure did! Thanks for playing! Twist: Come back soon! Twist: Bye Bye! Maureen: Remember, keep moving and learning and you'll grow up to be healthy and strong! Maureen: Bye bye! Like us! Subscribe. Ring the bell! Comment below!

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