My Big Heart

History & Origin

"My Big Heart" is an original song written for this collection by Celine Watts. It belongs to the tradition of body-counting songs — songs that teach children the names and numbers of their body parts through a counting framework — while adding a warm and personal dimension at the end: one big heart, I love you.

The song's structure is elegant in its simplicity. The first verse counts the pairs (two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears) before arriving at the singletons (one nose, one mouth, one smile, one heart). The mathematical pattern — two, two, two, two, one, one, one, one — creates a satisfying rhythm and teaches both counting and the concept of singular and plural.

The second verse turns the inventory into action: the arms rise, the legs climb, the eyes look, the ears hear. Each body part is no longer just a thing to be counted but something that does, a small lesson in the relationship between what we have and what we do with it. The verse ends with the heart, which doesn't just exist or do — it loves.

This movement from counting to action to love gives the song a quiet emotional arc that lifts it above the purely educational. Body-counting songs are common; body-counting songs that end in the acknowledgement of love are rare and rather beautiful.