{"id":5620,"date":"2022-05-09T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com\/blog\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:01:20","slug":"cockatoo-songs-for-kids-to-sing-along-with-a-cockatoo-puppet-or-plush-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/cockatoo-songs-for-kids-to-sing-along-with-a-cockatoo-puppet-or-plush-toy","title":{"rendered":"Cockatoo Songs for Kids to Sing Along with a Cockatoo Puppet or Plush Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.funstra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funstra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs-960x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs-960x460.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs-320x153.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs-640x307.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cockatoo-songs.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children can play, dance and sing along with their <a href=\"\/..\/.\/cockatoos\">cockatoo toys<\/a> to these fun catchy tunes about cockatoos. With some classic Australian songs like, &#8216;He&#8217;s a Cockatoo&#8217; from Don Spencer and new nursery rhymes like &#8216;A Funny Cockatoo&#8217;, these cockatoo songs are sure to delight and entertain preschoolers and children, both young and old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"\/..\/.\/stuffed-animals\">stuffed animal<\/a>. A song can be an enjoyable and amusing way for children to have their cockatoo <a href=\"\/..\/.\/puppets\">puppet<\/a> sing along to the song lyrics as they practice and develop their puppeteer skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JDzZheLe_I\">Cockatoo<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Cockatoo is an Australian children&#8217;s song by Margaret Bradford on YouTube. It&#8217;s one of many Aussie songs available in Margaret Bradford\u2019s hardcover book\/CD &#8216;Bindi-eye Bop&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>Cockatoo up in the tree<br>\nSqeaking, squawking down at me<br>\nYou are such a noisy fellow<br>\nFeathers white and cone of yellow<br>\nHow can you crunch seeds and bellow<br>\nPerched up in that tree?<br>\nYou&#8217;re such a noisy cockatoo<br>\nThat&#8217;s enough cheek now from you<br>\nOff you fly there in your dozens<br>\nSisters, aunties, brothers, cousins<br>\nYou fill the skies there with your cries<br>\nAs you fly off home\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cockatoo | An Australian Kids Song\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NzW-bco0ogQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JDzZheLe_I\">He&#8217;s a Cockatoo<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Don Spencer is an Australia children\u2019s songwriter and guitarist and sings the children song titled, He&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>It \u2013 may &#8211; sound absurd, but I\u2019ve heard a bird,<br>\nWho screeches and makes speeches in the spoken word.<br>\nHe\u2019s got a snow white coat, and he can even quote,<br>\nSome lines from famous poems that Henry Lawson wrote.<br>\n<br>\nAnd though he\u2019s not been known to use a telephone,<br>\nhe can hold a conversation on his own.<br>\nHe\u2019ll say \u2018G\u2019day\u2019 and then he\u2019ll fly away,<br>\nbut he\u2019ll be back to talk to us another day.<br>\n<br>\nHe\u2019s a Cockatoo &#8211; and he will talk to you,<br>\nOr imitate any sound you want him to.<br>\nHe\u2019s a cockatoo &#8211; he\u2019s Aussie through and through.<br>\nHe\u2019s a \u2018Hello cocky &#8211; have a cracker\u2019,<br>\n\u2018Hello cocky &#8211; what\u2019s the matter\u2019.<br>\nHe\u2019s a sulphur crested cockatoo.<br>\n<br>\nHe comes to visit me, and sits up in a tree,<br>\nand demonstrates his very vast vocabulary.<br>\nWhen he says \u2018Hello mate\u2019, you know his diction\u2019s great.<br>\nIf I could talk as well as him I\u2019d run the state! \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He&#039;s a Cockatoo\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JDzZheLe_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Fxzm8aU82Y\">A Funny Cockatoo<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Funny Cockatoo song from the Kakatoo channel on YouTube features a fun animated cockatoo, giraffe and grandma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>A funny cockatoo<br>\nIt&#8217;s perching on a window<br>\nGranda&#8230; it&#8217;s getting old<br>\nHer teeth left only two\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cockatoo - Parrot Song (English Subtitle) | Popular Kids Song - Kakatoo\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Fxzm8aU82Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children can play, dance and sing along with their cockatoo toys to these fun catchy tunes about cockatoos. With some classic Australian songs like, &#8216;He&#8217;s a Cockatoo&#8217; from Don Spencer and new nursery rhymes like &#8216;A Funny Cockatoo&#8217;, these cockatoo songs are sure to delight and entertain preschoolers and children, both young and old. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funstra.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}