A tiny chase set to rhyme, up the tree and down again, with Pussy-Cat never quite catching Robin. The call and response, "Catch me if you can!" and "Mew, mew, mew," makes it a natural for acting out with your hands.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree,
Up went Pussy-Cat, down went he,
Down came Pussy-Cat, away Robin ran,
Says little Robin Redbreast: "Catch me if you can!"
Little Robin Redbreast jumped upon a spade,
Pussy-Cat jumped after him, and then he was afraid.
Little Robin chirped and sang, and what did Pussy say?
Pussy-Cat said: "Mew, mew, mew," and Robin flew away.
About this rhyme
Text has two chases: the first ends with Robin's cheeky 'Catch me if you can!'; the second explicitly says 'he was afraid,' and ends with Pussy-Cat's line, not Robin's, as the last words spoken.
A chase rhyme, up and down: Robin sits in a tree, the cat goes up after him, and he drops down and runs, calling back 'Catch me if you can!' Second time round he's not so bold. He jumps onto a spade, the cat follows, and this time he's properly afraid, until he's singing again and flies off free, leaving Pussy with nothing to show but a mew. Try acting out the ups and downs with your hand as the bird and the other as the cat.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition