Children can play, dance and sing along with their cockatoo toys to these fun catchy tunes about cockatoos. With some classic Australian songs like, ‘He’s a Cockatoo’ from Don Spencer and new nursery rhymes like ‘A Funny Cockatoo’, these cockatoo songs are sure to delight and entertain preschoolers and children, both young and old.
These entertaining cockatoo songs are great to help children develop confidence, enhance motor skills and communication as they role play and perform along with the music with their cherished cockatoo stuffed animal. A song can be an enjoyable and amusing way for children to have their cockatoo puppet sing along to the song lyrics as they practice and develop their puppeteer skills.
Cockatoo
Cockatoo is an Australian children’s song by Margaret Bradford on YouTube. It’s one of many Aussie songs available in Margaret Bradford’s hardcover book/CD ‘Bindi-eye Bop’ which covers such themes such as recycling, pollution and water conservation, in a light-hearted and fun way with more songs about echidnas, cockatoos, blowflies, bilbies, dinosaurs and more.
Cockatoo up in the tree
Sqeaking, squawking down at me
You are such a noisy fellow
Feathers white and cone of yellow
How can you crunch seeds and bellow
Perched up in that tree?
You’re such a noisy cockatoo
That’s enough cheek now from you
Off you fly there in your dozens
Sisters, aunties, brothers, cousins
You fill the skies there with your cries
As you fly off home
He’s a Cockatoo
Don Spencer is an Australia children’s songwriter and guitarist and sings the children song titled, He’s a Cockatoo, which amusingly tells the story of a talking cockatoo that always has a lot to say. Kids will love to sing along with their favourite cockatoo puppet or stuffed animal and perform the catchy cockatoo tune.
It – may – sound absurd, but I’ve heard a bird,
Who screeches and makes speeches in the spoken word.
He’s got a snow white coat, and he can even quote,
Some lines from famous poems that Henry Lawson wrote.
And though he’s not been known to use a telephone,
he can hold a conversation on his own.
He’ll say ‘G’day’ and then he’ll fly away,
but he’ll be back to talk to us another day.
He’s a Cockatoo – and he will talk to you,
Or imitate any sound you want him to.
He’s a cockatoo – he’s Aussie through and through.
He’s a ‘Hello cocky – have a cracker’,
‘Hello cocky – what’s the matter’.
He’s a sulphur crested cockatoo.
He comes to visit me, and sits up in a tree,
and demonstrates his very vast vocabulary.
When he says ‘Hello mate’, you know his diction’s great.
If I could talk as well as him I’d run the state!
A Funny Cockatoo
A Funny Cockatoo song from the Kakatoo channel on YouTube features a fun animated cockatoo, giraffe and grandma.
A funny cockatoo
It’s perching on a window
Granda… it’s getting old
Her teeth left only two
