80 Easy Kids' Songs for Adult Kalimba Beginners: Start Playing with No Prior Music Experience

Welcome to the enchanting world of kalimba music!
Here’s everything you need to begin creating beautiful melodies.
No prior musical experience or ability to read sheet music is necessary to start playing right away. Playing is as simple as following the numbers.

Simple melodies for 8, 10- or 17-key kalimba
This sheet music is designed to be adaptable for any kalimba, whether you have a compact 8-note instrument or a larger 17-note version.

Play right away with numbered notes
Each circle on the sheet corresponds to a specific note number, matching each key on your kalimba.
The duration of the notes is shown by the parentheses following the circles. The more parentheses after the circle, the longer the note’s duration. A whole note has three parentheses, and the durations of other notes are illustrated in the accompanying picture. A dot after the note indicates an additional half-parenthesis duration.
A dot above a note indicates a higher octave, as is common on kalimba keys.

It’s important to note that the circles do not represent semitones, as kalimbas are typically not tuned in semitones.

Every page includes QR codes that link to the appropriate song. While these examples might not feature our simplified melodies, they help in understanding the melodies and rhythm.

This songbook includes the following songs:
Alabama Gal
Alice the Camel
All Join hands and Circle to the Left
Animal Fair
Barbara Polka
Barnyard Song
Bend and Stretch
Big Clocks
Bim Bum Biddy
Bluebird
Bought Me A Cat
Buckeye Jim
Cackle Cackle Mother Goose
Camptown Races
Chicken on a Fence Post
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Come Back Home My Little Chicks
Creeping Creeping Little Flea
The Crocodile
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Do Your Ears Hang Low
Elevator Song
Finger Family
Five Little Ducks
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Frog Went A-Courtin’
Georgie Porgie
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Goosey, Goosey Gander
Halloween Song
Hickety Pickety My Black Hen
I Go Up the Apple Tree
I Love Little Kitty
I Went to Visit a Farm One Day
I’m A Little Teapot
I’m A Nut
Jig Jog
Johnny Works With One Hammer
Kangaroo Skippy Roo
Ladybird, Ladybird
Lazy Mary
Lightly Row
Li’l Liza Jane
Little Sally Water
My Hat
My Paddle
O Christmas Tree
Oh How The Lovely Is The Evening
Old Mother Hubbard
One Elephant
One Potato
One Two Buckle My Shoe
Peace Round
See-Saw Margery Daw
Simple Simon
Soft Kitty
Star Light
Teddy Bear
Ten Little Pigs
The Cuckoo and the Donkey
The Farmer in The Dell
Land of The Silver Birch
There Was A Crooked Man
There Was A Princess Long Ago
This Little Light of Mine
This Little Pig Went to Market
This Old Man
Three Blue Pigeons
Three Little Kittens
Tommy Thumb
Too Ra Loo ra Loo Ral
Trees Grow Tall
Two Little Blackbirds Sitting on a Hill
Two Little Dicky Birds
When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears
Where Is Thumbkin?
Why Doesn’t My Goose