To not know the sleeping bunnies song.

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DD is 5 and they are having nursery rhyme week at school, the ones they are featuring are 'Head shoulders, knees and Toes' 'Incy wincy spider', 'Wind the bobbin up', 'down in the Jungle' and 'Sleeping Bunnies'

I've not heard of the last 2, I was born mid 80s and don't remember either of them, I've seen in the Jungle on a cbeebies or something, but I have never heard little bunnies, DD assures me she used to do little bunnies all the time at playgroup which nana took her to. But I've still not actually heard it until I have just looked up a video now and now I am all confused because DD insists it is just bunnies and there should not be frogs , elephants or crocodiles.

I tried Google to find out when and where it is from but I just get presented with different versions of the videos, I'm lost, did this one just pass me by?

I've never heard the sleeping bunnies one. I know down in the jungle from Guides / Scouts but it was a boogie woogie washer woman washing her clothes not animals......this might not longer be PC ;)

I was born in '90 and like you op and it seems a few others, down in the jungle and sleeping bunnies totally passed me by until I had ds.
I still struggle with down in the jungle for lyrics sometimes 🤣

Are you all ready to
Shake and shake and shake and stop?
And then shake a little bit more?

Gosh that’s one of the rhymes I used to sing for my eldest over and over and over and over…..

It was a firm favourite at toddler group

I only heard of sleeping bunnies when my eldest was 3 or 4. Never heard of the jungle one. We are practicing incy wincy spider for my 4yo to sing in front of the class this week!

I hadn't heard of either until I had my dd and started taking her to singing groups but I'd definitely heard of them by the time she was 5 from taking her to the singing groups.

@LowlandLucky

Now have little bunny foo foo in my head

DD came home from nursery the other day singing this! I'd never heard it before. Also Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar!

Sleeping Bunnies has been at every single baby and toddler class we've gone to. I think it's the few seconds of silence you get that makes it such a favourite!

ARGH!

Hop little bunnies, hop hop hop...

What an earworm. YABVU to subject me to it.

They sing it at the end of every Jo Jingles session. From 9 mins 30 in this video

I was born in 82 and I sang sleeping bunnies as a kid. It's quite old!

I loved this one back in the day but my DC disagreed as the line “are they ill?” used to freak them out for some reason!

I never heard Sleeping Bunnies until I had DS, and I found it creepy at first, sung in lugubrious tones by half conscious mums. "Why so still?" (Are the bunnies dead?) "Are they I'll?" (They're dead, aren't they?!)

Alexa is fantastic for this.

I have learned so many nursery rhymes from DS coming home and asking for some song, or singing half of one line, and I say "Alexa, play the ...potato song?" and 9 times out of ten she gets it right.

I was born in the early 70s and have no recollection of Sleeping Bunnies from my own childhood. When I had my DS in 2009, it was sung everywhere! The jungle one, like a PP, I remember a different version from Guides.

Wind The Bobbin Up is real proper old though. My grandmother used to sing it to me. I mean, who winds bobbins up any more?

No bunnies in Stockport in the 70’s.
I first heard it in London, after I had DC1.
Down in the jungle i remember.

See the little bunnies sleeping in ‘til noon
Shall we go and poke them with a wooden spoon?

Thanks for that version DH !

Our version of Down in The Jungle was less politically correct and it was the Boogie-Woogie Washerwoman washing her clothes.

I only learned wind the bobbin up when I had DC. Never sang it as a child

I have lovely images in my mind now of DS (now 17 and man-sized) and all his little nursery mates hopping around like little bunnies with huge smiles and wild abandon. Oh to love life like a toddler!

Love the wooden spoon version!

No bunnies or winding the bobbin up in Ireland in my childhood — I only encountered both at baby groups in England. I suppose ‘Wind the bobbin up’ is a mill song, anyway, and hence not really a thing outside specific areas of Ireland.

I was a toddler in the late 70s/early 80s and had never heard Sleeping Bunnies either until I had my own toddler and took her to play and stay type groups. Down in the jungle I only know because dd had a book of it and I think we must have looked on YouTube to see what the tune was meant to be.

Wind the Bobbin up didn't feature in my childhood either - I first heard that when I moved to the Midlands in the early 2000's and was working with children so I suspect it's regional (grew up in the SE), or least it was but has now spread to the rest of the country

I’m 30 and only know it from taking my DS to baby groups - never heard it when I was a child so I think it’s a relatively more recent one.

Down in the jungle is AWESOME and I'm so sorry you had a childhood without it.
Sleeping bunnies I only recently became aware of via book which I hate.

Only reason I know both is because they were sung at playgroups I took DD1 to, also an 80s baby, not part of my childhood.