| Nursery rhymes are a great way to bond with your | | | | sheep Baa, Baa Black Sheep. |
| children as they learn new skills. Creating fun nursery | | | | If you have ever played the game "Name that Tune", |
| rhyme activities takes only a few minutes of prep time | | | | then you will love playing "Name that Nursery Rhyme." |
| and inexpensive craft items you probably already | | | | For a party, divide everyone into two equal groups and |
| have around the house. | | | | read one or two lines of a popular nursery rhyme. |
| Collect some empty toilet paper rolls and make a toilet | | | | Give each team a set amount of time to guess the |
| paper nursery rhyme character. You will need two or | | | | rhyme, and if they don't guess it in time, add another |
| three empty toilet paper rolls, glue, scissors, glue, and | | | | line to the rhyme and allow both teams a chance to |
| markers. Draw Little Red Riding Hood or other | | | | guess the rhyme again. Each time you need to add a |
| characters and glue them to the toilet paper rolls. Keep | | | | line to the rhyme, you will take away a point. The team |
| all your props in a bag and use them each time you | | | | with the most points at the end of the game is the |
| read nursery rhymes with your children. | | | | winning team. |
| The nursery rhyme matching game is a fun activity to | | | | Another fun nursery rhyme activity you can participate |
| play with your children. Pick two characters from each | | | | in with your child is a Rock a Bye Baby prop. In order |
| nursery rhyme that coordinate together and place | | | | to make the prop, you will need paper, paint, crayons |
| them on card stock and laminate them. For example, | | | | and precut babies. On a blank sheet of paper have |
| you can have a card with a cow jumping over the | | | | your child design a blanket. Wrinkle the paper until it |
| moon and another card with a dish and a spoon to | | | | becomes soft like a blanket. Then give your child a |
| represent Hey Diddle Diddle. Draw the characters with | | | | precut baby to rock in the blanket. You can also use |
| your child and laminate them once you are done so | | | | scrap material as your blanket instead of using paper. |
| they don't get damaged. | | | | Head over to your local retail store and purchase |
| Coloring is a wonderful way to allow your children to | | | | some straws, paper, and paint. You will be creating fun |
| let their imagination run wild. Give your child a piece of | | | | puff art that allows children to pretend like they are the |
| paper and have them draw different characters. You | | | | Big Bad Wolf or other characters in the stories they |
| will need construction paper, tissue paper, glue, paint, | | | | read. Puff art is a cheap and easy way to let children |
| markers and any other supplies you can think of. Let | | | | use their imagination and make a cool piece of art. |
| your child glue, draw, and decorate the nursery rhyme | | | | You can find other nursery rhyme activities online. |
| characters any way they like. | | | | Several web sites that sell educational supplies will |
| A fun nursery rhyme activity you can re-create with | | | | have nursery rhyme activities you can purchase. You |
| your child is Baa, Baa Black Sheep. Using some paper, | | | | can also check with your child's teacher about |
| cotton balls, paint, and markers, you and your child can | | | | suppliers where you can purchase different nursery |
| make several sheep from the nursery rhyme. Paint a | | | | rhyme activities to play with your child. |
| few of the cotton balls black to make some of the | | | | |