Learning Spatial Prepositions: Above, Below, Inside, and Outside

Scratch Garden

This engaging animated music video introduces young learners to fundamental spatial prepositions through catchy rhymes and clear visual demonstrations. Hosted by a friendly cheese character, the video uses a cast of colorful animals (a cat, bat, rat, and fox) and simple props like boxes and blocks to illustrate pairs of positional words including above/below, in front of/behind, inside/outside, and beside/between. The content is structured into two main musical verses, each followed by an interactive "sing with me" section that encourages active participation. The first half focuses on relative vertical and horizontal positioning (above, below, in front, behind), while the second half explores containment and proximity (inside, outside, beside, between). The repetitive nature of the song reinforces memory retention of these vocabulary terms. This video is an excellent resource for early childhood classrooms, ESL/ELL instruction, and special education settings to teach spatial awareness and basic grammar. Teachers can use it as a high-energy hook to start a lesson, a movement break where students act out the positions, or a review tool for positional vocabulary. The clear isolation of concepts against simple backgrounds makes it easy for students to focus on the specific spatial relationships being demonstrated.