Vamos A Jugar

This is a fun Spanish-language playground game collected from San Antonio, Texas.
Source: SPU Kodaly Summer Institute, Level 2 Materials

Tideo

This rousing Texas play-party song can be played as a hand-clapping game with double circle of partners or a partner-swinging dance and is great for teaching sixteenth notes.
Sources:  Eisen, Ann and Robertson, Lamar.  An American Methodology: An Inclusive Approach to Musical Literacy p. 393
Owens, William. Texas Folk Songs p. 160

Pumpkin, Pumpkin

I sing this song with primary students in October.  They enjoy making different kinds of faces as they turn themselves into jack-o-lanterns.
Source:  Eisen, Ann and Robertson, Lamar.  An American Methodology: An Inclusive Approach to Musical Literacy p. 378

Paw Paw Patch, The

I enjoy turning this into an October movement improvisation song for young children by replacing "Paw Paw" with "Pumpkin." It's also a great Appalachian double line dance where students can learn to cast off, or, as I like to call it, "peel the banana."
Source: Ed. by Erdei, Peter.  150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play p. 102

Love Somebody

I use this song in February as a beat-passing game with a heart-shaped bean bag.  It's great for the practice of four sounds to a beat ("ticka ticka").
Source: Ed. by Eisen, Ann and Robertson, Lamar.  An American Methodology: An Inclusive Approach to Musical Literacy p. 350

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

This song is good for practicing four sound to a beat when sung as-is, or for vocal or movement improvisation if singers get to make up actions for other players to do.
Source: Seeger, R. C. American Folk Songs For Children

Ding Dong Diggidiggi Dong

While students are learning this song, I ask for individuals to think of different animals who could go missing.  When it is well-learned, I use it for preparing and presenting four sounds to a beat.
Source: Orff, Carl and Keetman, Gunild.  Music For Children: Pentatonic Book 1

Dinah

When students are learning this song, I have them sing their names in place of "Dinah."  Once it is well-known, it is great for preparing and presenting four sounds to a beat.
Source: Ed. by Bacon, Denise; Erdei, Ida; and Knowles, Faith.  My Singing Bird: 150 Folk Songs

Chicken in the Fence Post (Dance Josey)

Children can either sing this song as a vocal improvisation with new reasons why they can't dance or as a circle game in which two players try to be the first to "rescue" a chicken or other animal trapped in the fence.
Source: Ed. Erdei, Peter. 150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play p.51