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Nursery Rhymes From Around the World

Between 19th – 23rd November 2018, we will be celebrating World Nursery Rhyme Week. This was an event launched by Music Bugs in 2013, who each year provide free resources for your children. Including a welcome letter, MP3 song file, colouring story book, various craft activities, stickers and certificates. Nursery rhymes are an important part in childhood development and education. Not to mention they are fun, engaging teaching tools where your child can sing and play along to a variety of songs and rhymes. Nursery rhymes aren’t just for younger children either, older children can benefit from the rhyme and rhythm too! Check out Reading Rockets activities for all ages, including writing their own, fill in the blanks and TV shows!
  • Flourish their language, literacy and communication skills – teach your children to fall in love with language.
  • Fun way to assist with maths too!
  • Develop social, physical and emotional skills, each rhyme has a message.
  • Introduces culture – common between parents, grandparents and children!
  • Find their rhythm and a natural beat – studies show that children who can keep a stead beat are naturally better readers.
  • Foster social skills – great as a social activity – connecting movement, rhythm and words.
One of the great things about nursery rhymes is that they are passed down different generations across different countries and cultures. Take some of our favourites, like Little Miss Muffet for example, and how it varies between countries, see the English, Jamaican, American and Australian versions below.

English

Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey. There came a big spider, Who sat down beside her And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Jamaican

Lickle Miss Julie Kotch pon ar stoolie An nyam wan ripe Bombay; Den bredda Anancy Come frighten de pickney An tief de ripe mango away.

American

Little Miss Tuckett, Sat on a bucket, Eating some peaches and cream. There came a grasshopper And tried hard to stop her, But she said, “Go away, or I’ll scream”.

Australian

Little Miss Muffet, Arose from her tuffet To box with the old kangaroo. There came a big wombat To join in the combat, And Little Miss Muffet withdrew. Each country has their own favourites! Europe’s Not Dead have released the top from European countries. Included in the United Kingdom is Twinkle, Twinkle, the alphabet song and ba ba black sheep. Take your children through them, see which they recognise and which they don’t – experience the different cultures. Along with reciting nursery rhymes to your children, getting them to sing along and use actions, there are many fun activities you can get them to partake in to get them involved, and understand the educational aspect of the song. Hickory Dickory Dock is a brilliant example, this nursery rhyme can teach your little ones how to tell the time. You can you can make a paper plate clock, with numbers around the outside and split pin hands. Another activity you could try is show a digital and analogue clock, showing them how it work and giving the alternative time for the other type of clock. How about Humpty Dumpty? Simply print and laminate a picture of poor humpty, cutting pieces off – creating a puzzle. Let your children put humpty back together again! Mix it up with different images, smaller pieces and a time limit! There are also lots of rhyming words involved in this nursery rhyme, print out words from the nursery rhyme out and get them to place words into rhyming piles. E.g. fall & wall.

You can create a sensory play experience to accompany Old Mac Donald. Filling a box full of rice/beans/lentils and then add a variety of farm animals into the box. When you’re going through and singing the song, get your child to find the animal and then make the noise along with the song once found. Get creative with play dough, encourage your children to create their very own green speckled frogs, include googly eyes, bottle tops for decoration. They can use these as a mascot to sing along with. You can also create a fun maths came with play dough to this rhyme. Print out a large green frog, let them roll the dice to find out how many play dough ‘speckles’ the frog should have on his tummy, each time adding more or taking them away. Asking them to tell you how many they are adding or subtracting each time. We hope you found our activities helpful and fun. We would love to know which you got up to in World Nursery Rhyme Week, how they helped your children to learn, develop and play, as well as learn a few new rhymes!

If your child loved World Nursery Rhyme Week, be sure to label their belongings with animal themed, dishwasher, sterilizer and microwave safe name labels. As part of our Fab and Funky Stick-On range we have a variety of animal themed name labels they’d absolutely love, to sing their favourite nursery rhymes too!
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