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Enten tenten teelika-menten (Counting-out Rhyme)
Entten taar (Nursery Rhyme)
Hane fane fekkun (Nursery Rhyme)
Mum's Little Piggies (Christmas Song) 
KEY TO SYMBOLS
- - this song has a Video recording
Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of Finland:
My friend Maria Hayda, who has family from Ukraine, wrote: ?Lisa, pussy willow is what we use for our Easters :) since Eastern Europe is unable to grow palm trees? My Grandmother had a huge bouquet she saved thru the decades. Now I’ve started my own bouquet.? According to Wikipedia, ?The flowering shoots of pussy willow... Read more »
Open Culture has a page of free language learning links covering 40 languages. Here are some of the languages you can find links for… Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maori, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili,... Read more »
Santa Lucia?s Day is celebrated on December 13th in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. It commemorates the life of Santa Lucia, who is also known as Saint Lucy. It’s the beginning of the Christmas season in those countries and is a celebration of light ? at the time of year when the world is darker. ... Read more »
Here’s a lovely Swedish poem about a moonlit summer night. It was written by Finnish poet Edith Södergran (1892 – 1923). You can listen to the recording below and follow along with the original poem in Swedish. The you’ll find a loose English translation after the poem. MP3 of Nocturne as read by Johan Borg Nocturne... Read more »- Teresa Tirado wrote asking about a Finnish lullaby: My recently past grandmother used to sing a Finnish version of Rock A By Baby to me as a child. I am desperately searching for the words and clip so as to be able to learn to sing it to my children. Please if you could... Read more »
- Nikoletta wrote: Dear Mama Lisa, I would like to ask your help. I’m a Hungarian girl (a mother with two children). My grandmother came from Finland, but we can’t speak Finnish. She died in 2000. In my mind there is a song from my children’s age: Tipu, tipu ….. I tried to find this song on... Read more »
- Paul Gogojuice asked the following question on the Mama Lisa’s World Facebook Group: Hi all. My grandmother is full Finnish and as a child she always had 2 different sayings that she’d say to us. I don’t know how to spell them or anything, but I’m going to do my best to explain them. The first one... Read more »
- Jessica wrote to me looking for help with a kids song from Finland… hello, i am looking for a Finnish children’s song called TUKU TUKU ULLIGA FOREN, KILI KILI VITA LAMMEN……. the rest i don’t know. sorry, i know the spelling is all wrong, but if u can make it out and send me the... Read more »
GUEST BLOGGER Lisa Smith of Regionz Kidz has graciously shared this interesting post about international Valentine’s Day traditions. February 14th has come to mean red and pink hearts, flowers, chocolates and Hallmark cards here in the US. But, how did Valentine’s Day become a day that we celebrate with our loved ones? Valentine’s Day began... Read more »- Several days ago I wrote a post about the Santa Lucia holiday in Sweden and Scandinavia. A popular saying associated with this holiday is: Lucy Light, The Shortest day & The Longest Night. This saying celebrates the association of St Lucia’s Day, December 13, with the Winter Solstice which, under the old Julian calendar, used to fall... Read more »
