This is a rhyme I can never remember all the words to. My version always seems to get mixed up somewhere in the middle. 3yo doesn’t seem to notice – yet!   Read more »

I remember singing ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’ at primary school, with everyone standing in a big circle. Everytime a new verse was sung a person was chosen to stand in the middle. By the end, half the class were in the middle!

It was the first song that my child started to sing. Well I say started, because all he managed was EE II EE II OOOH. He loved it, and loved all the different animal noises.

At nursery, the leader asked for the children to shout out the next animal. She got very stuck when aliens, and dinosaurs were called for!     Read more »

Hickory Dickory Dock is another favourite in our house. 2yo is obsessed with time and clocks and loves saying ‘tick tock tick tock’ along with this one.
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This is a nursery rhyme I had totally forgotten about. It amazingly came right back to me though. I think it was inprinted somewhere in the back of my mind.

My 2yo just loves it. Every day he demands ‘baa baa black eep’ to be sung many times over.  One thing is for sure – I will never be allowed to forget it again!

Baa Baa Black sheep is sung to a similar tune to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet Song. Like many nursery rhymes, it’s origins are unclear. The British wool tax of 1275 seems to be a contender though.    Read more »

Last summer, 2yo was playing in the garden. He wandered, well staggered in toddler style over to the slide and looked amused at something on the top.

” pider, pider” He exclaimed!     Read more »