Nursery rhymes with rhyming words
Nursery Rhyme Words & Artwork — Hubbard's Cupboard
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Jack and Jill
Old Mother Hubbard
Mary Had a Little Lamb & Baa Baa Black Sheep
Hey Diddle Diddle
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baa, baa black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir. Three bags full.
One for the master
and one for the dame.
And one for the little boy
who lives down the lane.
1, 2, Buckle My Shoe
1, 2, Buckle my shoe.
3, 4 Shut the door.
5, 6 Pick up sticks.
7, 8 Lay them straight.
9, 10 A big fat hen!
Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey diddle, diddle.
The cat and the fiddle.
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such a sport
and the dish ran away with the spoon!
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Diddle diddle dumpling
my son John.
He went to bed with his socks on.
One shoe off and one shoe on.
Diddle diddle dumpling
my son John!
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one.
The mouse ran down.
Hickory, dickory, dock!
Hickety Pickety
Hickety pickety,
my black hen.
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Sometimes nine.
And sometimes ten.
Hickety pickety,
my black hen.
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The itsy bitsy spider
climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain
and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain.
And the itsy bitsy spider
went up the spout again!
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
and all the King's men
couldn't put Humpty together again!
Jack Be Nimble
Jack be nimble!
Jack be quick!
Jack jump over the candle stick!
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
and broke his crown.
And Jill came tumbling after!
Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue
come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow.
The cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack fast asleep
Little Bo Peep
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep
and she doesn't know where to find them.
Leave them alone,
and they'll come home
wagging their tails behind them.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb.
It's fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go.
Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
sat on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
and sat down beside her.
And frightened Miss Muffet away!
Old King Cole
Old King Cole
was a merry old soul,
and a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe,
and he called for his bowl,
and he called for his fiddlers three.
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Mary, Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells
And cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.
Pat a Cake
Pat a cake, pat a cake
Baker's man!
Bake me a cake
as fast as you can.
Pat it, and prick it,
and mark it with a ___.
Put it in the oven for ____ and me!
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
went to the cupboard
to get her poor dog a bone.
But when she got there,
the cupboard was bare.
And so the poor dog had none.
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell
and there he kept her very well
Peas Porridge Hot
Peas porridge hot.
Peas porridge cold.
Peas porridge in the pot
Nine days old!
Simple Simon
Simple Simon
met a pieman
going to the fair.
Says Simple Simon to the pieman
"Let me taste your ware!"
Says the pieman to Simple Simon
"Show me first your penny."
Says Simple Simon to the pieman
"Indeed I have not any!"
Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts
she made some tarts
all on a summer's day.
The Knave of Hearts,
he stole those tarts
and took them clean away.
To Market
To market, to market
to buy a fat pig.
Home again, home again
Jiggity jig!
To market, to market
to buy a fat hog.
Home again, home again
Jiggity jog!
Star Light
Star light.
Star bright.
First star I see tonight.
I wish I may.
I wish I might
have the wish I wish tonight.
Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie
runs through the town,
upstairs, downstairs,
in his nightgown.
Rapping at the windows,
crying through the lock,
"Are the children all in bed?
For now it's eight 8 o'clock".
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Twinkle, twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high.
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are!
34 Best Nursery Rhymes for Kids (Lyrics and Activities)
Table of Contents
- 1 Free Nursery Rhymes for Kids
- 2 A Tisket, A Tasket Lyrics
- 3 Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Lyrics
- 4 Hey Diddle Diddle Lyrics
- 5 Hickory Dickory Dock Lyrics
- 6 Humpty Dumpty Lyrics
- 7 I’m a Little Teapot Lyrics
- 8 It’s Raining, It’s Pouring Lyrics
- 9 Itsy Bitsy Spider Lyrics
- 10 Jack and Jill Lyrics
- 11 Jack Be Nimble Lyrics
- 12 Little Bo Peep Lyrics
- 13 Little Boy Blue Lyrics
- 14 Little Miss Muffet Lyrics
- 15 Mary Had a Little Lamb Lyrics
- 16 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Lyrics
- 17 Polly Put the Kettle On Lyrics
- 18 Rain, Rain Go Away Lyrics
- 19 Row, Row, Row your Boat Lyrics
- 20 Star Light, Star Bright Lyrics
- 21
- 22 The Wheels on the Bus Lyrics
- 23 There Was An Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Lyrics
- 24 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Lyrics
- 25 Wee Willie Winkle
- 26 A Wise Old Owl Lyrics
- 27 Hot Cross Buns Lyrics
- 28 One, Two, Three, Four, Five (Once I caught a fish alive) Lyrics
- 29 Little Jack Horner Lyrics
- 30 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Lyrics
- 31 Old Mother Hubbard Lyrics
- 32 Pat a Cake Lyrics
- 33 Pease Porridge Hot Lyrics
- 34 Roses are Red Lyrics
- 35 Three Blind Mice Lyrics
- 36 Three Little Kittens Lyrics
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Nursery Rhymes for kids lay the foundation to early language and reading skills. Children who are frequently read and sang to early on, are much more likely to develop strong reading skills.
After using poems to teach kids how to read over the past 17 years, I have found nursery rhymes to be the most effective tool. I’m so excited to share this list of the nursery rhymes for kids with you. They will build vocabulary, fluency, expressive and receptive language, rhyming skills, and expand the kids’ imagination.
Free Nursery Rhymes for Kids
In this blog post, you will find the some of the best nursery rhymes lyrics and suggested activities. Before you start scrolling, grab your FREE poetry guide with checklists, activities, and printables.
A Tisket, A Tasket Lyrics
A Tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket.
I wrote a letter to my friend, and on the way I dropped it.
I dropped it, I dropped it,
and on the way I dropped it.
The little boy, he picked it up,
and put it in his pocket.
A Tisket, A Tasket Suggested Activities:- A Tisket, A Tasket Build a Poem activity for in the classroom or at home.
- Have the kiddos write or draw a letter to a friend, then act out the poem.
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Lyrics
Baa, baa, black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir
Three bags full.
One for my master
And one for the dame
One for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Suggested Activities- Color a sheep template black, then use cotton balls to incorporate a sensory craft
- Estimate how many cotton balls it will take to fill three lunch bags
- Baa, Baa Black Sheep Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Hey Diddle Diddle Lyrics
Hey diddle, diddle,
the cat and the fiddle.
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
and the dish ran away with the spoon.
Get “Hey Diddle Diddle”, HERE or on TPT
Hey Diddle, Diddle Suggested Activities
- Introduce a fiddle, and let the kids have turns acting out the cat’s role
- Paint a picture of a cow jumping over the moon.
- Have a jumping contest
- Do a sight word hunt using the printable Hey Diddle Diddle Poem.
- Hey Diddle Diddle Build a Poem
Hickory Dickory Dock Lyrics
Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, the mouse ran down.
Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck two, the mouse said “BOO!”
Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck three, the mouse said “WHEE!”
Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck four, the mouse said “No more!”
Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory Dickory Dock Suggested Activities:- Use with a Teaching Time kit to integrate lessons about clocks and time.
- Talk about and act out position words: up, down, etc.
- Come up with a list of rhyming words for mouse.
- Hickory Dickory Dock Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Humpty Dumpty Lyrics
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the Kings horses, and all the king’s men,
couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Humpty Dumpty Suggested Activities
- Grab your FREE Humpty Dumpty Printable and Build a Poem when you sign up to my Little Learning Corner Newsletter, HERE.
Get Humpty Dumpty, HERE or on TPT
I’m a Little Teapot Lyrics
I’m a little teapot short and stout.
Here is my handle, here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up, hear my shout.
Just tip me over, and pour me out!
I’m a Little Teapot Suggested Activities:
- Have a tea party using a kids Tea set
- Integrate lessons on measurement. Compare compacity and weight of a teapot verves a teacup
This printable poem is exclusive to the Poem of the Day Bundle, HERE or on TPT.
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring Lyrics
It’s raining, it’s pouring.
The old man is snoring.
Went to bed, and bumped his head
and couldn’t get up in the morning.
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring Suggested Activities:- Act out the poem (the kids love being the old man who snores
- Integrate a lesson on weather
- It’s Raining, It’s Pouring Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Itsy Bitsy Spider Lyrics
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain.
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
Itsy Bitsy Spider Suggested Activities:- Integrate Spider Facts for Kids sentence building activities.
- Use hand movements to reinforce the poem or song.
- Focus on positional words
- Make a paper plate spider craft
- Add the Itsy Bitsy Spider printable poem to the kids’ poetry notebook
- Itsy Bitsy Spider Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Jack and Jill Lyrics
Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down, and broke his crown,
and Jill came tumbling after.
Jack and Jill Suggested Activities:
- Get a class set of plastic pails, and let the kids act out this popular nursery rhyme for kids.
- Jack and Jill poetry packet
- Jack and Jill Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Jack Be Nimble Lyrics
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Jack jump over the candlestick.
Jack jumped high. Jack jumped low.
Jack jumped over, and burned his toe!
Jack Be Nimble (Nursery Rhyme for Kids) Suggested Activities:- Get a cheap candlestick mold and candle making kit to make candles with your kids. (This is great to do with a parent volunteer)
- Let the kids practice jumping over a candlestick while reciting the nursery rhymes for kids.
- Jack Be Nimble Build a Poem – replace the Jack card with the students names to personalize this fun nursery rhyme for kids (see video above)
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Little Bo Peep Lyrics
This traditional nursery rhyme is one I like to include in my farm themed lesson plans.
For example, the introduction of sheep allows for the talk of other farm animals. It’s great a bridge into more mother goose nursery rhymes naturally occurs. For example, you can then teach more English nursery rhymes such as “This Little Piggy”, “Five Little Ducks”, “Three Little Pigs”, “Five Little Speckled Frogs”, “Old MacDonald”, and more popular rhymes.
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Little Bo Peep lost her sheep,
and doesn’t know where to find them.
Leave them alone, and they’ll come home,
bringing their tails behind them.
Little Bo Peep Suggested Activities:- Grab this set of 3 Sheep stuffed animals to let the kids act out the nursery rhyme for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade.
- Little Bo Peep Build a Poem
Little Boy Blue Lyrics
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn.
The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.
But where’s the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No – not I.
For if I do, he’s sure to cry.
Little Boy Blue Suggested Activities:- This a great nursery rhyme for kids to incorporate your favorite farm animal lessons.
- Set up a farm pretend area
- Little Boy Blue Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Little Miss Muffet Lyrics
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
eating her curdy and whey.
Along came a spider who sat down beside her,
and frightened Miss Muffet away.
Little Miss Muffet Suggested Activities:- Do a nursery rhyme for kids comparison with Little Miss Muffet and Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Introduce vocabulary, such as tuffet, curds and whey, and frightened.
- Swap out frightened for another word to describe emotions and act them all out.
- Little Miss Muffet Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Mary Had a Little Lamb Lyrics
Mary had a little lamb,
it’s fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day
and broke the teacher’s rule
And what a time did they have
that day at school.
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Mary Had a Little Lamb Suggested Activities:- Swap out the name “Mary” for the kids’ names. It’s a great way to personalize nursery rhymes for preschoolers.
- Send home a little lamb stuffed animal with the kids and have them recite the poem to their family. Rotate through all of the kids.
- Mary Had a Little Lamb Build a Poem
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Lyrics
One, two, buckle my shoe.
Three, four, shut the door.
Five, six, pick up sticks.
Seven, eight, lay them straight.
Nine, ten, a big fat hen.
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
One Two Buckle My Shoe Suggested Activities:- Work on number word recognition – highlighting the number words in the printable poem.
- Identify the rhyming patterns throughout the nursery rhyme for kids.
- Act out the poem
- Try to come up with new lyrics
- One Two Buckle My Shoe Build a Poem
Polly Put the Kettle On Lyrics
Polly put the kettle on.
Polly put the kettle on.
Polly put the kettle on.
We’ll all have tea.
Sukey, take it off again.
Sukey, take it off again.
Sukey, take it off again.
They’ve all gone away.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Polly Put the Kettle On Suggested Activities:- Do a compare and contrast with “I’m a Little Teapot”
- Set up a kitchen area with a toy kettle
- Let the kids role play as Polly and Sukey
- Polly Put the Kettle On Build a Poem
Rain, Rain Go Away Lyrics
Rain, rain, go away.
Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Rain Rain Go Away Suggested Activities:- Integrate with your lessons about weather.
- Replace “Johnny” with your kid’s name.
- Rain Rain Go Away Build a Poem
Row, Row, Row your Boat Lyrics
Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
life if but a dream.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat Suggested Activities:- Sink or float activities
- Water table
- Row Row Row Your Boat Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Star Light, Star Bright Lyrics
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Star Light, Star Bright Suggested Activities:- Get a telescope for kids and let them look at the stars
- Integrate this nursery rhyme for kids with your lessons about shapes.
Making Words Shapes and Write the Room Shapes are two popular activities. - Star Light Star Bright Build a Poem
The Wheels on the Bus Lyrics
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
round and round, round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
all through the town.
The Wheels on the Bus Suggested Activities:- Sing with hand motions
- Each kid and be a part of, or people on, the bus (wheels, wipers, babies, mommy, etc) and act out their part.
- The Wheels on the Bus poetry packet
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Some may debate that The Wheels on the Bus is an American Folk song, while others claim it to be a classic Mother Goose song for kids. Either way, it was published in 1939, and remains a popular song for kids of all ages.
This nursery rhyme for kids has variations, changing “wheels” to wipers, kids, babies, bus driver, mommies, daddies, and horn – to name a few.
Each variation has a different hand motion or sound effect, making this a very engaging and interactive song for kids.
There Was An Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Lyrics
This fun, classic nursery rhyme, inspires young children to use their imagination. The kids say this is a funny nursery rhyme because how can an old lady actually live in a shoe. They ask questions such as “how many little boys live in the shoe?”, and “Is there a little girl?” While you may want to work on more thorough reading comprehension questions, and focus on learning new words, this is a fun poem for kids of all ages.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread.
Then, whipped them all soundly, and put them to bed.
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Suggested Activities:- Free coloring page of There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Practice tying shoes with kids
- There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Lyrics
Twinkle twinkle little star,
how I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle twinkle little star,
how I wonder what you are.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Suggested Activities:- Put up glow in the dark stars throughout the room
- Work on shape identification: Making Words Shapes and Write the Room shapes are two great resources to learn shapes.
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Wee Willie Winkle
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown;
Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,
“Are the children in their beds?
Now it’s eight o’clock.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Wee Willie Winkie Suggested Activities- Have a pajama day with the kids.
- Integrate learning to tell time.
- Have the kids graph when their nap time is.
- Wee Willie Winkie Build a Poem
A Wise Old Owl Lyrics
A wise old owl sat in an oak.
The more he heard,
the less he spoke.
The less he spoke,
the more he heard.
Why aren’t we all like
that wise old bird?
A Wise Old Owl Suggested Activities- A Wise Old Owl Build A Poem
- Make a cute set of Owl Eyes as a STEM project
- Foam Owl Art Crafts
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Hot Cross Buns Lyrics
Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns
If your daughters
Don’t like them,
Give them to your sons.
Hot cross buns.
Hot Cross Buns Suggested Activities- Hot cross bun taste testing and graph
- Make fresh buns with the kids.
- Play a money game from Learning Resources
- Hot Cross Buns Build a Poem
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
One, Two, Three, Four, Five (Once I caught a fish alive) Lyrics
One, two, three, four, five.
Once I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Because he bit my finger so.
Which finger did he bite?
This little finger on the right.
One, Two, Three, Four, Five Suggested Activities | Nursery Rhymes for Kids
- Go fishing for sight words! Put a small magnetic dot on the back of sight word cards, attach a paper clip to a string on the end of dow rod, and fish for sight words.
- One, Two, Three, Four, Five Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Little Jack Horner Lyrics
Little Jack Horner
sat in a corner
eating a Christmas pie.
He put in his thumb
and pulled out a plumb
and said, “What a good boy and I?”
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Little Jack Horner Suggested Activities
- Pie tasting and graphing your favorite pie
- Plumb tasting
- Little Jack Horner Build a Poem
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Lyrics
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells
and cockle shells,
and pretty maids all in a row.
Get this poem on TPT
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Suggested Activities
- Kids Plant and Flower Growing Kit
- Make paper flower patterns
- Intro to flower facts for kids
- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Build a Poem
Old Mother Hubbard Lyrics
Old Mother Hubbard
went to the cupboard
to get her poor dog a bone.
But when she got there,
the cupboards were bare,
so the poor dog had none.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Old Mother Hubbard Suggested Activities
- Fun printable and digital pet activities
- Sew your own pet craft for kids
- Old Mother Hubbard Build a Poem
Pat a Cake Lyrics
Pat a cake, pat a cake bakers man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it and pat it and mark it with a B.
But it in the oven for baby and me.
Pat a Cake Suggested Activities
- Integrate your lesson about community helpers
- Set up a bakery dress-up area with a cake pretend playset.
- This is the perfect song to integrate hand movements and support kinesthetic learners.
- Pat a Cake Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Pease Porridge Hot Lyrics
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold.
Pease porridge in the pot
nine days old.
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot
nine days old.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
Pease Porridge Hot Suggested Activities
- Do a nursery rhyme for kids comparison with Little Miss Muffet, and with the fable, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Pease Porridge Hot Build a Poem
Roses are Red Lyrics
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet
and so are you.
Get this poem HERE or on TPT
It’s the simplest nursery rhymes for kids that often stick out the most!
Roses are Red Suggested Activities
- Do a nature walk and collect wild flowers, then sort them by color or type
- Plant roses
- Roses are Red Build a Poem
Three Blind Mice Lyrics
Three blind mice,
three blind mice,
See how they run,
see how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife
who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such
a sight in your life,
as three blind mice?
Three Blind Mice Suggested Activities
- Blindfold three students, and have them run a short distance (if there is an open, safe, area)
- Integrate 5 Senses activities
- Three Blind Mice Build a Poem
Get this printable poem HERE or on TPT
Three Little Kittens Lyrics
Three little kittens,
they lost their mittens,
and they began to cry.
“Oh, mother dear,”
we sadly fear,
that we have lost our mittens.
Three Little Kittens Suggested Activities
- Incorporate a pretend pet area in the classroom to support these traditional rhymes.
- Read “The Mitten” by Jan Brett
- Do a poem comparison with Three Blind Mice
- Three Little Kittens Build a Poem
Get this printable HERE or on TPT
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Learn to write poetryBACK TO MAIN
Thirty-three cows
or Learning to compose poetry
“Thirty-three cows, a new verse is born…” Remember the song about the little a poet? It is about games in rhyme that we will talk today. These games are not only fun pastime. It is a means of developing both speech, and imagination, and non-standard creative thinking of the baby.
To compose poetry, one must be able to observe, to notice the brightest and unusual, to be able to choose expressive words and, most importantly, one must be able to rhyme.
And let the little "inspired rhymers" not become great poets (although, who knows!), but they will get great pleasure from the process itself creativity, from the joy of creating your own poem. And how unusual and verses written by a child can be figurative! No wonder Korney Chukovsky said: “At the beginning of life, we are all poets, and only then we gradually begin to speak prose."
There is one more nuance. It's no secret that many modern kids don't like read poetry. But they love making them! So let's take advantage of this to raise a small writer to a great reader!
Poems and kids
Starting to read nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes to a very small child, we do a great and important matter. And it does not matter that the kid does not yet understand the meaning of what he read. Importance not in that. Reading, from early childhood, we discover beauty and beauty for the child. the melody of native speech, we instill love for the word, we learn to understand rhyme and meter.
A kid grown up on “quality” children's poems will most likely not lose interest in poetry in the future. In the first rhyming games we play with the child intuitively, without even perceiving them as games. Reading a familiar rhyme, we we stop at the end of the line, giving the crumbs the opportunity to pronounce familiar word. And he does a great job with it. As the baby grows, it vocabulary is getting bigger. And if you read and read a lot a variety of poems, a 2-3 year old child may well play a game with you "Give me a word." For this game, use unfamiliar quatrains with simple, easy to guess rhymes. Riddles are also good, in which the answer goes into rhyme. And do not rush to immediately answer for the baby. give him opportunity to find the correct answer.
If you don’t have a book with riddles or poems at hand, you can do it right “on the go” invent rhymes. They help the child to feel the rhythm verse. I often play this game with my youngest daughter:
- Cha-cha-cha, we were at…
- Doctor! - happily picks up Masha.
- Zha-zha-zha, they found in the forest ...
- Hedgehog!
- From-from-from, redhead purrs ...
- Cat!
- Ib-ib-ib, in the forest grew up…
- Mib! – Here are those! The situation was not entirely clear to Wave, because we often say not “mushroom”, but “fungus”. That's what my daughter came up with a word that rhymes but means absolutely nothing. And in order not to get any “mibs”, select situations that are well understood by the baby, and then the guess word will be just ask for the tongue. And then you can make it harder. And praise, be sure praise anyway! Out-of-the-box thinking is great! Why and some “mibu” cannot grow under a Christmas tree? Who knows...
Versification is a wonderful activity on the way to kindergarten or standing in a long line. And time will help pass, and the benefits are undeniable. You can compose poetry just by looking around: what I see, I sing about. And by all means in turn: the line is mom, the line is baby.
So more fun:
By on the path we go
We won't fall for anything!
A bee flies over a flower.
me bangs interfere with watching…
Playing a poem
Abracadabra
the words. Well, he does not understand what rhyme is, and that's it. Try to act in the following way. Take some well-known poem and retell it in your own words. For example, like this:
The hostess left bunny.
Bunny stayed in the rain.
Could not get off the bench,
Wet all over to the thread.
Ask the child: is this a poem? Not! And why? Yes, because the rhymes in it no. Now we rearrange the words, and everything falls into place. Find with baby rhyming words: hostess-bunny, could not-wet. Play this a permutation game, first “spoiling” the poem, and then correcting it.
Applause
For this game we need hands. You call a couple of words, and the child should clap his hands if there is a rhyme, and raise your hands if the words don't rhyme.
Sand-sock: bang! Table chair: handles up! Such a game will very quickly help the baby figure out what's what.
Extra Four
You name four words, and the child must choose one of them that does not rhyme with the other three. For example, in a chain “mimosa, birch, goat, splinter”, an extra word, of course, “goat”.
Rhymed lotto
For children who can read, you can make a lotto. Take a stack of thick paper "for notes" and write large letters on each by one word. Choose them so that every 3-4 words rhyme. Begin play. We shuffle the cards and distribute 10 cards to the players. Beginner game puts any of his cards on the table and reads the word aloud. Every player chooses from his cards those where there are words that rhyme with the name. Then the next player in the circle puts his card on the table and reads the word, and the rest lay out cards with rhyming words, if they have them. The first person to run out of cards wins.
“Catch the rhyme”
must return the ball to you and answer with a rhyme: a watch-mustache, a squirrel-plate, etc.
Can throw the ball and rhyme one word, making a chain: cat-midge-spoon-brooch-okroshka, etc. And it doesn't matter if it doesn't work right away. A little practice, and wonderful and unusual rhymes will appear. Incidentally, such games are much more fun to play with a company of kids, for example, in a children's birthday or during a walk. And we often play with the whole family in the car, choosing a word and coming up with rhymes to it in turn until someone fantasy is not exhausted. In such a family competition, it is appropriate to call and not very common words, like a yoke or a grip, and at the same time explain their meaning to the child. It’s just that daddy doesn’t really come out with rhyming, and he increasingly chooses wonderful rhymes like “brother-cousin”.
"Nonsense-Nonsense-Nonsense"
Here is a game for older kids. After all, often it happens that moms and dads do not know what to play with a grown child. But our little schoolchildren crave to play and communicate with us no less than kids.
The game "Nonsense" came from my childhood. There was a period when we enthusiastically played it not only at breaks, but also, what is there to hide, at lessons. I think that this game is familiar to you. Several players (two are possible, but what the more the better) take a piece of paper. Covering your paper with your hand prying eyes, write any phrase on top, for example: “Once we have under school desk” or “Once, in the cold winter season”. Then fold the sheet so so that what is written is closed, and they pass it around, telling the neighbor the last word per line. Now the task of the players is to write the next line in rhyme with the previous one. Then the sheet is folded again and passed on. This continues until the end of the sheet or until you get bored. Then the sheet is unfolded and what is written is read. aloud. All the players roll with laughter, because they turn out to be meaningless, but very funny combinations. Well, that's why she's a jerk. And if you rainy autumn in the evening you dare to play this game with the whole family, you will be in a good mood secured despite the gloomy weather.
Miracle charades
Our next fun is charades. They have a given word is divided into several parts, each of which is an independent word: f-salt, top-ears, etc. In old children's magazines, this useful game was given a lot of places. And for good reason. Charades are a wonderful task for ingenuity and erudition. Guessing such riddles helps to better understand the native language and its manifold. And we will try to compose charades, and then make them to dad. Let him break his head! Charades have many varieties. The most popular among them is an anagram. In it, the word is found by rearranging letters. Here is an example:
To the seas and oceans
I release fountains.
Vice versa write -
You will hear me in the clock.
(kit-tic)
In order to write an anagram, you need to first pick up a couple of words, and then on its basis to come up with a poem-explanation. There are many such couples many, but here's a start for you: pump-pine, linden-saw, clever tsunami, jar-boar, entrance-inhale, mosquito-chamomile, park-carp, hair-word.
Shall we play Burim?
In addition to the games described, there are others that have come to us from distant times, when any well-educated person was a bit of a poet. Such poems were written in the circle of close people, used as gifts to friends.
Burime (from French bout - end, rime - rhyme) is a fun game, a poetic task where you need to write poems to predetermined rhymes. It is interesting to play it with the whole family, reading out their works in turn. And this is not just entertainment, but a useful activity that develops creativity, a sense of humor to expand vocabulary. Rhymes for burime should be unexpected and a little strange. The main requirement for the future poem: common sense and humor. For kids, use simpler rhymes: bunny-flock-box-bun. Here what can happen:
A hare came out into the clearing.
Sees - there are titmouse flock.
He opened his box,
Gave a bun to the tits with poppy seeds.
And then it is possible and more difficult: in the zoo-business-hot-chalk.
Interesting to play burime, using rhymes from famous children's poems. Come on, let's try compose your own version of the chain: half-paw-throw-good or in mink-shut up-peel-candles. And you can play “guessing games” by asking the baby remember in which poem these rhymes were found.
One of varieties of burime is monorim (from Greek monos - one and French rime - rhyme). In this game, one base word is taken, and the whole poem must be built on the same rhyme. You can invent lines queues. For example, we choose the word "duck" and compose such poem:
There once was a duck in the world,
She loved forget-me-nots.
Oni blossomed in her stomach.
And this, you know, is not a joke!
One day to visit for a minute ...
... well, and so on.
Surely the kid will be interested in composing together with you an acrostic. This is a poem in which each line begins with a certain letter. If you read these letters in a row, you should get some word:
M scarlet girl
A bricotes eats
Ш a squirrel.
A x, doesn't listen to me!
Try to play with the name of the baby and his friends or come up with an acrostic as a gift dad or grandma.
A variety of acrostic is tautogram, in which all words begin with the same letter. That's where large vocabulary required:
Lilac petal flies,
Light summer patch…
If you manage to get your baby interested in rhyming games, it will be great for him in the future come in handy. Write funny wishes for the birthday of a loved one, remake a song at a school party, come up with anagrams for a student KVN - where you just do not need the ability to write poetry.
And most importantly - the child will have the opportunity to express his non-standard, its amazing inner world, whose name is childhood.
Yulia Kasparova
"The World of the Family"
December 2005
Games for the selection of rhymes - MADOU Murmansk No. 97
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02/27/2014
The ability to hear individual sounds and determine their position in a word (at the beginning, middle, end) is of great importance when learning to read.
With ease, children are given the selection of sounds at the beginning of a word, but when determining the sound at the end of words, the children have difficulty. Therefore, special attention should be paid to sounds and letters at the end of words. For this, children's poems, nursery rhymes and songs are suitable. Repeating them after an adult, the child first learns to recognize rhyming words in the text, and then find new rhymes.
“Merry Rhymes”
I took a pencil and paper and drew…….(snag).
On a path in the forest, I somehow met ....... (a fox).
Today at the entrance I met a cat, mustache and his tail - ....... (beauty)!
Yanochka began to yawn, come on quickly to ... ... .. (bed).
Happy Clown
Have your child draw a funny clown. You will use couplets to tell him what to draw. The child needs to finish the couplet in rhyme and draw the guessed part of the face.
We draw a clown, we start from…………….
(head).
The clown brought us joy, he has a mop of……….(hair).
To be able to listen to music, draw a clown…………..(ears).
To be able to see us, let's draw a couple……….(eye).
The clown makes everyone laugh to tears, he has a huge ... ... ... .... (nose).
The clown amuses the people - cheerful to the ears ... ... ... .. (mouth).
"Cool Rhymes"
Explain to your child the rules of the game: you say two words, and if they rhyme, the child should raise two thumbs.
For example, DREAM-RING - two thumbs are raised, VETKA-CAR - hands are lowered. You can switch roles (the child comes up with rhymes, and the adult raises two thumbs).
"Rhymes in the room"
Name the objects in the room.
Try to come up with as many rhymes as possible for each word with your child, for example: HAT - DAD, PAW; CARPET - BOBER, FIRE; WALL - WAVE, MOON. Rhymes can be not only real words, but also invented ones.
"Rhyming Names"
Think of funny rhymes for the child's name, for example: Katya - Vatya, Batya, Datya, Matya, Latya.
Turning to the baby, call him a rhyming name, for example: Dad, it's time for dinner! Or: Matya, let's go for a walk!
If the child liked it, replace the names of family members and nicknames of pets with rhymes.
“Change the Sound”
Ask your child to come up with a word that rhymes with CAT and starts with R (ROT). Or rhymes with the word SUP and begins with the sound Z (TOoth).
When the kid gets used to the game, you can complicate the task. For example, ask your child to name a word that rhymes with BOW and begins with ST (KNOCK).
"Rhyming sentences"
You need to come up with a sentence with rhyming words.
Choose two words to rhyme (for example, DAD and HAT). Ask your child to come up with a sentence with these words. The sentence could be like this: Dad came home from work, he has a big hat.
