Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids
Five great wake up songs for kids to start their day brimming with energy and a positive mindset! A wake up song is a fantastic way to get your class moving in the morning. Scientific studies have shown that exercise boost have studies have shown that starting your day with some exercise boosts your cognitive abilities, gives you an energy boost and makes you feel great.
“Exercising also boosts oxygen circulation inside your body. This increase in oxygen not only supports the mitochondria’s energy production, it allows your body to function better and to use its energy more efficiently. Plus, your body gets a boost from an exercise-induced increase in hormone levels that makes you feel more energized…..In a study done at the University of British Columbia, researchers found that regular aerobic exercise, the kind that gets your heart pumping, appears to boost the size of the hippocampus, the brain area involved in verbal memory and learning.” – Harvard Medical School
With the link between aerobic exercise and brain function clearly established an early morning wake up song is a really fun way to get your class ready for the day ahead. With that in mind we decided to Youtube to find the five best wake up songs for kids!
Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids – Number One!
“Wake Up Song – A silly wake up song to get you moving! Gets very fast!” by Silly School Education
First up! Our very own Silly School Education “Wake Up Song – A silly wake up song to get you moving! Gets very fast!” Yes we know the title is a bit of a mouth-full, sorry about that. I’ve checked and if you just type “Wake Up Song” into YouTube it tends to come in near the top. We are of course biased but we originally wrote this to wake up the children in Trisha’s EYFS / KS1 classes at the primary school she works at.
They absolutely love it but we had no idea that once we put it on YouTube it would take on a life of it’s own. It’s had half a million views in the last year, 2000+ thumbs up so far and people seem to be watching it from all over the world. It’s seem that children from Bhutan to Belgium like being silly first thing in the morning as much as the kids in our sleepy English village.
It’s a very silly wake up song that has you jumping, clapping, dancing, standing up, sitting down, barking like a dog and flying like a bird and more. It’s also gets faster and faster, which the kids seem to find hilarious. Check it out below or head straight to our Silly School Education Youtube Channel or find out more here!
Lyrics
Get off your bum
Get off your seat
Wave your arms
And stamp your feet
Wiggle your fingers
Wiggle your toes
Wiggle your ears
And wiggle your nose
It’s time to wake up
It’s time to wake up
And go crazy
Jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap
Fly like a bird
Bark like a dog
Stand on your tip toes
Go for a jog
It’s time to wake up wake up
Stand up,
Sit down
Stand up,
Sit down
Stick out your tongue
And dance around
Show us your guns
I know that you got’em
Bend your knees
And wiggle your bottom
It’s time to wake up
It’s time to wake up
And go crazy
Jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap
Faster
Jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap
Faster
Jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap
Faster
Jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap
Faster
Jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop
Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap
Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids – Number Two!
“The Wake Up Dance” by Out of the Ark Music
The classic! If you’re going to make a list of the five best wake up songs on the internet you’ve got to include this one. Everyone who works in a primary school in the United Kingdom must have heard the immortal lines “Wake up, wake up, give yourself a shake up….” a fair few times in their career. The really little ones love this song and, in fact, the only reason we actually wrote our own wake up song was that the teachers in Trisha’s school had listened to this so many times it was driving them barmy. The song was a victim of it’s own success in this case.
Here’s how “Out of the Ark” describe it :
“Wake Up! is a great song for singing first thing in the morning and waking everyone up! It will certainly get all the children in your class moving and make sure that a good dose of oxygen reaches the brain to focus minds on the challenges ahead and promote wellbeing. This primary school song will definitely start the day off in an energetic, positive way!” – And we’d agree.
Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids – Number Three!
“Move with Me” by The Learning Station
The song has got some funk to it and tries to get every part of your body moving, from your head to your toes and features a rather groovy looking slightly older gentlemen who is rocking bracers and a train drivers cap.
Here’s how “The Learning Station” describe it :
““Move with Me” is a great brain break, exercise, fitness, dance and action song for children. It makes it easy and fun to take a quick energy brain break in the classroom. More and more schools are realizing the significant values of brain breaks, actions songs, dance songs, fitness and exercise for kids in the classroom. This popular brain break, exercise, dance, fitness and action song for kids is perfect for the preschool, kindergarten and elementary children. Lyrics are included for early readers, EFL programs for children and ESL programs for children.”
Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids – Number Four!
“Exercise Song” by ITS Music
If you’re looking for something that is a little bit more gentle this song by ITS Music is perfect. Yes there’s a fair bit of jumping and squatting but it’s all presented to a rather relaxed backing track if you’re looking for something a little less strenuous. Although to be fair their instruction to “Hop on the spot don’t stop until the music ends then start again” does give the calf muscle a bit of a roasting. It’s had over a million views on Youtube!
Here’s how “ITS Music” describe it :
“Get ready to get active! Exercise can be fun, especially when you sing along! “
Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids – Number Five!
“Wake Up Song – I’m Awake!”
Another Silly School Education wake up song. to wake up your class or assembly (or just yourself if you’re at home) and get everyone moving in the morning. It gets faster and faster, can you keep up? There’s lots of clapping, wiggling, jumping, running on the spot and dancing around on this one.
This one of our latest wake up songs and we’re great getting really fantastic feedback from elementary and primary schools all over the world about it.
Lyrics to “Wake Up Song – I’m Awake”
Clap you hands
Stamp your feet
And touch your nose
Clap your hands
Stamp your feet
And touch your toes
Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle around
Jump in the air
Then touch the ground
Shake shake shake your legs
Run like it’s a race
Nod nod nod your head
Pull a silly face
1 2 3 shout I’m awake
Clap you hands
Stamp your feet
Touch your hair
Clap your hands
Stamp your feet
Growl like a bear
Dance dance dance dance dance around
Jump up in the air
Then touch the ground
Shake shake shake your legs
Fly to out of space
Nod nod nod nod your head
Pull a silly face 1 2 3 shout
I’m awake
Clap
Stamp
Touch your toes
Wiggle
Jiggle
Touch your nose
Dance
Run
Nod
Shake
123
Shout I’m awake
Five Great Wake Up Songs for Kids
So there you have it, that’s our five great wake up songs for kids list complete. If you have any suggestions about other great wake up songs for kids that we’ve missed please do mention them in the credits below.
