What time do you get up? And what do you have for lunch? What do you do every day? Daily routines are important for children. It is something all your class will have in common as they probably all do similar things. They need to be able to talk about their routines to describe their everyday lives to other people. Songs are a great way of learning and practicing vocabulary so that they can do this. This collection of fun EFL ESL daily routine songs can be used for all ages and class sizes. So wash your face, brush your hair, pack up your school bag! Let’s get going with my Top 10 EFL ESL Daily Routine songs for children.
What Do You Do Every Day? by Maple Leaf Learning
This is a great way to start asking questions about daily routines and what the kids in your class do every day. It teaches a short list of everyday activities that most children will be familiar with. You could use the clapping action and chant in the video to ask the question to your class and get the conversation going. You could then play a memory chain game. Ask each child to add an activity to the chain and make it more difficult as it goes around the class. This would be a great way of learning as many different activities as possible. When you’ve done this, you can sing the song again with all the activities you’ve learned.
Wake Up! Daily Routines Song for Kids by Dream English Kids
What do you do when you wake up in the morning? This is what you’re going to practice with this song. It’s a good song for little children to start thinking about their routines and what they do before going to school. However, it’s also a fantastic one to sing with older kids as they can turn it into a rap and adapt it to their own routines. Challenge them to invent another verse with more activities they do. Or change the time of day and make it into what they do before they go to bed in the evening. You could adapt this song in lots of ways and use it as a launching point for many different activities.
Morning Routine Song by Fun Kids English
Quick, quick! What do the children in your class have to do quickly in the morning? Or in class? A great way to get them used to following orders and doing things fast. You could change the actions in this to things they have to do when they arrive at your class. Quick, quick, take off your coats! It’s an easy song to sing with or without the music. The kids will pick it up very fast and then will know exactly what quick, quick means when you are asking them to do something.
My Busy Day by Kokopellienglish
This song looks at the different activities we do in the morning before going to school and then in the evening before going to bed. You could use it as a launching point for older children about telling the time, morning and evening and what they do at different times. You could ask them to write a description or act out all the different activities they do during the day. It could also be used as a simple way of learning about the present and past tenses: what I do every day and what I did yesterday. You could sing it using either the present tense or past tense.
This is The Way by Super Simple Songs
All the things we do in the morning with lots of actions, a great song for little children. You could obviously adapt it to any routine you want and do actions for them too. After you have learned the song, play a game where you do the actions and the children have to tell you what you are doing.
Daily Routine Song | Egg Band by BabyTV
This is a good song to talk about what you did during the day. It’s an easy song to introduce or practice using the past simple tense. This is a great way to get them used to talking about the past. You can ask them what they did at the weekend or yesterday or during the holidays. You could also use it at the end of a lesson to ask the kids what they did in the lesson. “We drew a picture” or “We sang a song”. If you want an activity to go along with this, you could ask your class to draw a picture of all the things they did the day before and then sing the song again using the picture as a prompt.
Daily Routine Song for Kids – All in A Day by ELF Kids Videos
Unusually, this song goes through the whole day, including time at school which most songs seem to leave out. It is a good chanting song to repeat actions and is easy to pick up and adapt to other things that your class might do during the day. See if all the children have the same routine. Is there anyone that does things differently? Put the kids in groups to ask questions to each other and practice the vocabulary.
My daily routine – Rap Song! by IrisCampus
I love these kids! They are very cute and do a great job here rapping about their daily routine and what time they do different things. You could easily adapt this sing to the times and routines of your own class. Get them to make up their own raps and dances and then perform it for the rest of the class or even for the parents.
English for children – Every Day Song (KB3) by Learn with me
If you’ve got a class who love to sing, this is a good song for them. It goes through the whole day and is a great way of practicing the Present Simple Tense. It’s got a great musical accompaniment and would be really fun to sing together. It also practices time so you could adapt it to different timetables and activities.
The Morning Routines Song by ESL Kidstuff
A cheery, uplifting song to start your day well and talk about what you do in the morning. All the usual morning actions with happy music and an easy to sing along to tune for your smaller children. Add some actions and it will be a lot of fun.
Well, I hope you have as much fun as I did with these EFL ESL Daily Routine songs. There is really something here for everyone and they can all be adapted to suit the needs of your class and as a base for further activities and practice. Let me know in the comments if you have any favorite songs to add to this list. If you’ve enjoyed these songs and want to see some more, you can find all my Top 10 EFL ESL songs for different themes here. To stay up to date with new posts, you can follow the GoogooEnglish Facebook page or sign up for email updates below.