“Icky Sticky and Ooey Gooey” was a song I didn’t hear until I became a parent, but I immediately fell in love.
Here’s a video so you can hear the song. By the lack of videos on the Internet, I see “Icky Sticky” isn’t as popular as others, but I think it’s just swell. It teaches rhyming and body parts, but it’s just cute and fun, whatever age/stage your kids are. I love singing this one on car trips and having my younger fill in the rhyming word or my older helping me think of a new verse.
Icky Sticky and Ooey Gooey
They went out one day.
Said Icky Sticky to Ooey Gooey,
“Won’t you come and play?”
So Icky Sticky and Ooey Gooey
They played on a ______
But Icky Sticky got stuck to Ooey Gooey’s ______.
So maybe they play in a TREE and Icky gets stuck to Ooey’s KNEE
Or they play in the SKY and Icky gets stuck to Ooey’s EYE
Get the idea? Part of the fun is coming up with the rhymes. I have usually heard it using body parts as the “answers,” but really you could pick a theme and they could get stuck to each other’s clothing or furniture or toys, etc.
Here are some examples for the body parts:
with a HOSE / NOSE
in the SAND / HAND
on a FARM / ARM
at the FAIR / HAIR
on the DECK / NECK
on the TRACK / BACK
…and so on
Have fun with this one!