Category: nursery rhymes


Nursery Rhyme Challenge 2010

Is your child’s nursery taking part in the Rhyme Challenge – ours is. A great idea it is too.

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Row row row your boat – Nursery Rhyme

Image of Row row row your boatAnother favourite nursery rhyme. The cries of ‘again again’ are always heard after this one!

However I think I am getting too old to sit on the floor, pretending to row row row!

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Humpty Dumpty – nursery rhyme

Humpty Dumpty – the words

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the kings horses
And all the kings men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

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Oranges and lemons – Nursery rhyme

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 »

Old MacDonald Had a Farm – Nursery Rhyme

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 »