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30 Short Poems for Kids (for Every Occasion)

Nursery rhymes, song lyrics, Dr. Seuss books — without realizing it, we are surrounded by poetry every day. Poems can make children laugh, but more than that, they can help with cognitive development.

Short poems for kids can help your child understand patterns, which aids the brain in learning to process and retain information ⁽¹⁾. Poems can even help with the development of speech. Plus, children enjoy poetry when it’s age-appropriate.

Table of Contents

• Funny Poems for Kids
• Rhyming Poems for Kids
• Famous Short Poems for Kids
• Silly Poems for Kids
• Mother’s Day Poems for Kids
• Christmas Poems for Kids
• Easter Poems for Kids
• How To Choose Poems For Kids
• Tips for Teaching Your Kids Poetry
• The Last, Non-Rhyming, Word

Funny Poems for Kids

Funny poems are an excellent starting point when you begin to share poetry with kids. Whether it’s wordplay that makes the poem funny or a joke or a twist at the end, these poems will tickle their funny bone and encourage them to recite it.

Eletelephony

Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—

(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;

The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)

— Laura Elizabeth Richard

At the Zoo

First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;
Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;
Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;
Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;
Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;
Then I saw the monkeys – mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The Purple Cow

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one!

— Gelett Burgess

Our Kittens

Our kittens have the softest fur,
And the sweetest little purr,
And such little velvet paws
With such cunning little claws,
And blue eyes, just like the sky!
(Must they turn green, by and by?)

Two are striped like tigers, three
Are as black as black can be,
And they run so fast and play
With their tails, and are so gay,
Is it not a pity that
Each must grow into a cat?

— Evaleen Stein

The Picture-Book Giant

Once there was a fierce, defiant,
Greedy, grumpy, grizzly giant
In the pages of a picture-book, and he
Sometimes screamed, in sudden rages,
“I must jump out from these pages,
For this life’s a much too humdrum one for me!
Fiddle-dee!
Yes, this life’s a quite too quiet one for me!”

So one rainy day he did it,
Took the picture-book and hid it,
Stamped his foot, and shouting loudly,
“Now I’m free!”
Boldly started out, forgetting
That he could not stand a wetting!
He was just a paper giant, don’t you see?
Dearie me!
Just a gaudy, picture giant, don’t you see?

— Evaleen Stein

Rebecca

Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably

A trick that everyone abhors
In little girls is slamming doors.
A wealthy banker’s little daughter
Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater
(By name Rebecca Offendort),
Was given to this furious sport.

She would deliberately go
And slam the door like billy-o!
To make her uncle Jacob start.
She was not really bad at heart,
But only rather rude and wild;
She was an aggravating child…

— Hilaire Belloc

Rhyming Poems for Kids

Rhyming poetry gives children the opportunity to anticipate what’s coming next and sometimes have the satisfaction of being right.

Most nursery rhymes are basic rhyming poems. Beyond that, there are endless examples of rhyming poems for kids, some more modern than others.

A Million Little Diamonds

A million little diamonds
Twinkled on the trees;
And all the little children cried,
“A jewel, if you please!”

But while they held their hands outstretched
To catch the diamonds gay,
A million little sunbeams came
And stole them all away.

— Mary Frances Butts

Room For One More

There is always room for one more
I see by his coat he must be a stray,
The untidy look gives him away.
He’s lost his will and is so thin,
Hasn’t eaten since God knows when.
I know as I coax him through the door,
There’s always room for just one more.

— Author Unknown

The Forest

The forest is the town of trees
Where they live quite at their ease,
With their neighbors at their side
Just as we in cities wide.

— by Annette Wynne

Robin Redbreast

Goodbye, goodbye to Summer!
For Summer’s nearly done;
The garden smiling faintly,
Cool breezes in the sun;

Our Thrushes now are silent,
Our Swallows flown away –
But Robin’s here, in coat of brown,
With ruddy breast-knot gay.

Robin, Robin Redbreast,
O Robin dear!
Robin singing sweetly
In the falling of the year.

— William Allingham

The Cow

The friendly cow, all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What is Pink?

What is pink? A rose is pink
By the fountain’s brink.
What is red? A poppy’s red
In its barley bed.

What is blue? The sky is blue
Where the clouds float through.
What is white? A swan is white
Sailing in the light.

What is yellow? Pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
What is green? The grass is green,
With small flowers between.

What is violet? Clouds are violet
In the summer twilight.
What is orange? Why, an orange,
Just an orange!

— Christina Rossetti

Ladybird Ladybird

Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home
The field mouse is gone to her nest
The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes
And the birds and the bees are at rest

Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home
The glow worm is lighting her lamp
The dew’s falling fast, and your fine speckled wings
Will flag with the close clinging damp

Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home
The fairy bells tinkle afar
Make haste or they’ll catch you and harness you fast
With a cobweb to Oberon’s star.

— Author Unknown

Famous Short Poems for Kids

There is both modern and classical children’s poetry available. The issue of copyright prevents us from including some of the best modern children’s poetry, but you can find examples from poets such as Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, and Jacqueline Woodson all over the internet.

Here are some of our favorite classical examples.

When I Was One

When I was one,
I had just begun.
When I was two,
I was nearly new.
When I was three,
I was hardly me.
When I was four,
I was not much more.
When I was five,
I was just alive.
But now I am six,
I’m as clever as clever.
So I think I’ll be six
Now and forever.

— A.A. Milne

My Shadow

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest things about him is the way he likes to grow-
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all.

He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he’s a coward you can see;
I’d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Old Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone;
When she came there
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

— Author Unknown

As I Was Going To St. Ives

As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St. Ives?

— Author Unknown

Hey Diddle Diddle

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.

— Author Unknown

Silly Poems for Kids

The beauty of silly poems for kids is that they can stimulate different thought processes as well as dissolve your little ones into puddles of giggles.

In our first silly poem for kids, there are some actions, through which your child can join in and play along. These actions are in brackets, after the relevant line.

I’m a Little Teapot

I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle (one hand on hip)
Here is my spout (other arm out straight)

When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout
“Tip me over
and pour me out!” (lean over toward spout)

I’m a clever teapot,
Yes, it’s true
Here let me show you
What I can do
I can change my handle
And my spout (switch arm positions)
Just tip me over and pour me out! (lean over toward spout)

— George Harold Sanders

There Once Was A Man With A Beard

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said “It is just how I feared,”
Two Owls and a hen,
For Larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard

— Edward Lear

There Was A Young Lady Whose Eyes

There was a young lady whose eyes,
Were unique as to color and size,
When she opened them wide,
People all turned aside,
And then ran away in surprise.

— Edward Lear

Mother’s Day Poems for Kids

Mother’s Day poems for kids are often short and sweet.

This makes them excellent not only for reciting, but for putting inside or on a Mother’s Day card or craft.

Dear Mother

Dear mother, your love is special,
I cannot help but show.
Like flowers in a garden,
Your love makes me grow.

— Author Unknown

I Love My Mommy

I love my mommy, yessiree!
She is very good to me!
She makes me cookies and yummy treats,
That’s my mom and she’s real neat!

Oh, oh, oh, who wouldn’t know?
Oh, oh, oh, who wouldn’t know?
I love my mommy and she loves me,
That’s the way it’s supposed to be!

— Author Unknown

Dear Mother

You sew the buttons on my clothes
You give me a hankie for my nose
You make good things for me to eat
You buy me candy for a treat
You wash my clothes and mend my socks
Dear Mother, I love you lots and lots!

— Author Unknown

Christmas Poems for Kids

Google Christmas poems for kids and you’ll find page after page of Christmas songs, carols, and the like.

We’ve included some lesser-known children’s poems for Christmas, along with some of the actions for those interactive rhymes. Just remember not to read the words in brackets!

Christmas Is Coming

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat;
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’ penny will do,
If you haven’t got a ha’ penny then God bless you!

— Author Unknown

When Santa Comes To Our House

When Santa comes to our house (hands point to roof)
I would like to peek (peek through fingers)
But I know he’ll never come (shake head no)
Until I’m fast asleep (tilt and rest head on hands together)

Isn’t it the strangest thing
That Santa is so shy
We can never, never catch him
No matter how we try

— Author Unknown

Peppermint Stick

I took a lick of my peppermint stick (pretend to lick candy)
And was it ever yummy (lick lips and rub your belly)
It used to be on my Christmas tree (form tree shape with hands)
But now, it’s in my tummy (Point to belly)

— Author Unknown

Easter Poems for Kids

Use these poems in the weeks before Easter.

Enjoy plenty of fun, laughter, and bunny-focused dance moves before the real Easter bunny comes to make his chocolatey deliveries.

Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
One ha’ penny, two ha’ penny,
Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons
One ha’ penny,
Two ha’ penny,
Hot Cross Buns!

— Author Unknown

Easter Is Here

Easter time at last is here
Bunnies, chickies, let us cheer
(clap and cheer)
Easter Bunny hops with joy
Eggs for every girl and boy
(hop around)
Easter time at last is here
Bunnies, chickies, let us cheer

— Author Unknown

I’m An Easter Bunny

Here is a bunny (raise two fingers and bend them)
With ears so funny
And here is a hole in the ground. (make hole with the fingers of the other hand)
At the first sound she hears,
She pricks up her ears (straighten fingers)
And pops right into the ground. (put fingers in hole)

I’m an Easter Bunny, watch me hop, (hop around)
Here are my two ears, see how they flop. (hold hands at sides of head and flop them)
Here is my cottontail, here is my nose, (wiggle hips, then point to nose)
I’m all furry from my head to my toes. (point to head, then to toes)

— Author Unknown

How To Choose Poems For Kids

If you’re unsure about how to find suitable poems for children, here are some tips that will help:

• When you are choosing poems for children, look for examples of poetry that cover familiar topics.
• Don’t break out the abstract, freeform poetry to share with your children. Stick to poems that rhyme and have a simple, clear, distinct rhythm.
• The poems you choose can encourage wordplay. That stimulates your child to see words and the way they are used in a different fashion.
• Your poems of choice should be vivid and allow your child to create a clear mental picture of what’s going on.
• With young children, the sillier or the funnier the poem is, the better.
• With younger children, poems that can be accompanied by physical actions are an excellent way to help “paint the picture.”
• Think about attention spans. The poems here are short enough to keep your child interested right to the end.

Tips for Teaching Your Kids Poetry

To help teach your kids poetry, we’ve put together our best hints and tips.

• Make it fun. Don’t sit your child down and inform them they’re going to learn some poems. Instead, introduce them casually.
• If you are going to read a new poem to your child, be sure to run through it so you can read it aloud, without hesitation, and not ruin the experience for you both.
• Use an expressive voice when you’re reading your child a poem. Different voices for characters, the appropriate emotions, raising your voice or lowering it where appropriate will all enhance the experience.
• For older kids, have them choose a favorite song, and recite them as a poem. They’ll discover they already know plenty of poetry.
• Use poems in artwork, crafts, and other places so they are an everyday feature. That way, when the time comes for your child to learn about poetry at school, they’ll have a headstart in poetry appreciation.
• Dress up as a character in the poem you’re reciting. That will increase their interest.
• Make it age-appropriate. For toddlers, stick to a poem with four or six lines.

The Last, Non-Rhyming, Word

Just the word poetry can be an instant turn-off for some people, but don’t let it put you off.

Sharing poems with your child can help you bond, aid their development, and it can be a whole lot of fun.

So use some of our poems or find some of your own, and discover short poems for kids — you’ll be glad you did.

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Poems with onomatopoeia

When reciting poems with onomatopoeia, pause, encouraging the child to finish the poem himself. It is also useful to combine listening and performing appropriate movements.

***
Knock knock, snail
Stick out the horns
I will give you bread
And a shot of milk

***
Petya-Petya-Petushok,
Golden comb,
Butter head,
Silk beard.
What do you get up early,
You sing songs loudly,
Don't let the kids sleep.
Ku-ka-re-ku!

***
Ay, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo!
A raven sits on an oak tree,
He plays the trumpet -
In silver.

***
Oh guys, ta-ra-ra
On the mountain stands a mountain
And on that mountain there is a meadow,
And on that meadow there is an oak tree.

***
I play the pipe,
I amuse all the guys:
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo.

***
I play the violin -
Tili-li, til-li.
Bunnies are dancing on the lawn -
Tili-li yes tili-li.
And then on the drum -
Bam-bam-bam, bam-bam-bam.
In fear, the bunnies ran into the bushes!

***
The frogs on the pond played leapfrog
Kva, kva, kva, kva.
Kva, kva, kva, kva.
Kva, kva, kva, kva.
And dived into the depths of the pond !!!

***
Whose screams are there by the pond?
KVASU, KVASU to us here!
KVA KVA KVASU, prostoKVAshi,
We are sick of water!!!

***
A turtle walked across the field,
And she was trembling with fear!
She says - bite, bite!
I'm not afraid of anyone!

***
On the path hedgehog, hedgehog
Collects, foch-fosh,
Bright leaves,
Delicious mushrooms.

***
Ms. Ms. -
We found a hedgehog in the forest.
Zhu-zhu-zhu -
We went to eat.
Uzha-uzha-uzha -
There is a big puddle ahead.
Jock Jock Jock -
Put on, hedgehog, boot.

***
Here is a hedgehog curled up in a ball,
Because he's cold. Oh oh oh!
Hedgehog's ray touched,
The hedgehog stretched sweetly. Ah ah ah!

***
On a dry forest path -
Top-top-top - feet stomp.
Walks, wanders along paths
All in needles gray hedgehog

***
Summer forest - blunt-tap -
The hedgehog rushes from all paws.
"Hedgehog, hedgehog, wait!
Tell us - what's wrong with you?"
Hedgehog paws - blunt-blunt,
Hedgehog with eyes - loop-loop,
And around - peace and quiet,
Only a mouse crawls in the leaves.
Hedgehog in the leaves - stupid-tap!
Hedgehog mouse paw - tsap!
But caught by the tail
Just a birch leaf.

***
An owl sits on a bitch
And screams: "Boo-boo, boo-boo!"

***
Bunny took his drum
And hit: tram-there-there!

***
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo
Fly quickly into the woods
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo
Submit your vote

***
At noon at the edge of the forest
Girlfriends Gathered,
Songs are sung,
The cuckoo echoes them.
Ku-ku! Ku-ku!
La la la la la la!
O-dee-ree-dee
O-dee-ree-dee, di-na!
O-dee-ree-dee, di-na, u-ha!

***
Two kittens met:
Meow meow!
Two puppies: Wow!
Two foals: Igo-go!
Two tiger cubs: Rrr!
Two bulls: Moo!
Look what horns!

***
Here the stag beetle flies
The first beetle and the strongman
He, the beetle, has
Horns on the head
Wings strong
Claws
Beware the kids
The bug will bite, yes, yes, yes.

***
We are not afraid of the oceans,
Rivers and seas
Our mother is captain
Quack-quack-quack

***
Across the river, across the bridge
The gray menacing wolf is coming.
Scary wolf-wolves-shche,
Click-click, click-click
Sharp teeth
Click-click, click-click.

***
Whoo-hoo, the child neighed.
So it's... a foal.
“Meh,” the child suddenly bleated.
It's a small... goat.
“Moo-uh,” mumbles a child in a barn.
.- This is a small... calf.
“Meow,” meowed the guys
Do you recognize? We are... kittens.
- Be-e, - the child suddenly bleated
It's a little... lamb.
Someone's little son.
Suddenly he barked: I'm a puppy! WOF WOF!
“Oink,” grunted the guys
So it's... pigs.

***
"Woof! Woof! - at dawn,
"Woof! Woof! - outside.
A puppy ran in the yard,
And in the stable the horse neighed.
He was angry: “What are you
Do you interfere with sleep? Wow!"
And the calf said: "Mu!"
It prevents him from sleeping.
And the calf said: “Pee!
You, puppy, still sleep!
And the goat: "Me!" yes "Me!",
"They didn't let me take a nap."
And the puppy is all "Woof!" yes "Woof!",
He has a cheerful disposition!
And this cheerful disposition
It's called Woof Woof!
(according to T. Volgina)

***
A dog came to us
Smart dog,
Tail wags,
Loud, loud barks:
Woof woof woof!
(N. Komisarova)

***
Here the animals rejoiced -
Laughed and sang,
Geese started again
goose scream -
Ha-ha-ha!
The cats purred -
Moore, moore, moore!
The birds chirped -
Chick-chirp!
Horses neighing -
And-go-go!
The flies buzzed -
W-w-w-w!
Frogs croak -
Qua-qua-qua!
And ducklings quack -
Quack-quack-quack!
Pigs are grunting -
Oink oink oink!
Murochka is cradled,
My dear...
Bayushki-bayu, bayushki-bayu...
(K. Chukovsky)

***
Riding a horse,
We went to the garden.
GOP-GOP-GOP!
GOP-GOP-GOP!
Traveling by car,
We got to the corner.
BI-BI-BI!
BI-BI-BI!
We went by steam locomotive,
We reached the mountain.
TU-TU-TU!
TU-TU-TU!
(according to I. Tokmakova)

***
On the ground fled,
It has risen to the sky!
Airplane
is flying Straight ahead! Woo

***
Steamboat home
Hurry in a straight line!
Rocking on the waves,
The splashes are flying! S-s-s

***
"Beep, beep," the car hums:
I won't go without gas!

***
Carries carts!
Pipe puffs,
The wheels are rattling! Choo-choo-choo, Tu-tu-tu.

***
Everyone shouted: "Ay!"
Nobody responds,
Only an echo responds.
Our echo returns
To us quietly: "Ay! Ay!"
Echo! Echo!
Here's the fun.
This echo every time
Mimics us.
(E. Blaginina)

***
On the white, smooth road
Fingers jump like horses.
Tsok-tsok, tsok-tsok -
A frisky herd jumps.

***
Wooden sisters,
Two little sisters,
banged on the sides
The drum answered, "Bam."

***
Yula spins, sings
And buzzes like an airplane: Oo-o-o. .

***
We will take the key in hand
And start the motor:
"Chick, chick, chick, chick."

***
I start the engine -
And buzz, buzz, buzz:
"Wh-w-w..." let's go.

***
Knock-knock-knock-knock-
What is that knock?
Wooden it sound:
Knock-knock-knock-knock.

***
We cooked soup, soup
From pearl barley, groats
It turned out porridge
That is our grief

***
Drop one, drop two,
Drops slowly first -
Cap, cap, cap, cap.
The drops began to ripen.
Drop drop to customize -
Cap, cap, cap, cap.
Let's open the umbrella as soon as possible,
We'll shelter ourselves from the rain.

Author: Daria Koldina

Learning to compose poetry

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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 on! 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 path we go
We will not 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 threw 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 our 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: hands up! Such a game will very quickly help the baby figure out what's what.

“The fourth extra”
You name four words, and the child 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"
And here is a game for older children. 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 is a 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 the 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!
Once a visit for a minute ...
... well, and so on.

Surely the kid will be interested in composing 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
W 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 a large vocabulary is required:
Purple 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.

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