Preschool Nursery Rhymes Theme Activities
Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Nursery Rhyme and Mother Goose Activities.
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Nursery Rhymes Theme Map
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Mix & Match Muffins
Here is a quick and easy muffin recipe to make with your preschoolers! This recipe is easy to customize for each child with tasty add-ins. Read the recipe and directions on my blog.
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Baa Baa Black Sheep Fine Motor Craft
This cute little black sheep craft is a perfect addition to your Nursery Rhymes theme!
Invite your preschoolers to get crafty and work on fine motor skills. |
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Read Your Favorite Rhymes
Break out the instruments and play to the beat of favorite nursery rhymes. Grab a copy of the Pre-K Printable Fun Fingerplays, Songs, & Rhymes for inspiration and lyrics.
I'm a Little Teapot
Get preschoolers moving and dancing with dance moves to go along with I'm a Little Teapot!
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Create the 3 Little Pigs Houses by Babies Toddlers and Preschoolers
Spiderweb Painting by Play Teach Repeat
Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Dramatic Play Ideas
Add a variety of Mother Goose/Nursery Rhyme Themed Props to your Dramatic Play Area this week. Add items such as: Teddy Bears, Red Cape, Basket for Grandmother’s House, Bucket, and Muffin Tins.
Nursery Rhyme Dramatic Play
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Bakery Dramatic Play
Create a Little Red Hen or Muffin Man Bakery. Add props from the story as well as pretend loaves of bread. Easily create a Bakery with the Pre-K Printable Fun Bakery Dramatic Play Pack
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Re-create a space for "Miss Muffet" in your Reading Nook. Add a Tuffet, Spider, and "Curds and Whey". |
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Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Construction and Small World Play
Add Mother Goose/Nursery Rhyme Themed characters to your Construction Space This week.
Recreate the tale of Humpty Dumpty
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Challenge your preschoolers to build a wall for Humpty Dumpty to sit on. If available put little horse and knight figurines at the bottom. Place a plastic egg on top to see what happens. Can you keep him from falling? What else could be done to prevent Humpty from breaking?
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The Three Little Pigs Small World Play by Growing Book by Book
Discover which material is best for building a home with the Three Little Pigs Pretend Play activity by Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
Nursery rhymes present many opportunities for building, be sure to place a book with a collection of nursery rhymes in the block center for inspiration.
Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Language & Literacy Ideas
This week add a lot of Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme books to your classroom.
Children love to retell these stories, be sure to add props to classroom for children to use when retelling the stories.
Children love to retell these stories, be sure to add props to classroom for children to use when retelling the stories.
Little Bo Peep Letter Matching
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Read your favorite Nursery Rhymes and compliment it with the Little Bo Peep "Letter Flip and Mark" game from the Pre-K Printable fun Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes Activity pack.
For some added fun consider creating a sensory bin! Add cotton balls, and the Little Bo Peep Letter cards to a bin. Once your students have located the matching letter, add a cotton ball to the sheep mat. |
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Doggie, Doggie Letter Game
Have the students sit in a circle. Place the lettered dog bones from the Mother Goose & Nursery Rhymes Prek Printable Pack. down in the center of a circle. Each student will go to the center to choose a bone. When it's their turn the student selects a bone from the pile and walks around the circle. The class repeats this rhyme: "My doggie had a bone,
He carried it all around.
When the bone dropped on the ground, my doggie picked it up and made a funny sound!" (When the student reaches their spot they'll drop the letter on the ground and make the corresponding letter sound). Play Continues until all letters have been collected.
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Add items that will allow children to re-tell their favorite stories such as Nursery Rhyme puppets, Felt Stories, and Puzzles.
You can DIY your own Magnets, or Felt Pieces using Coloring Pages (from Coloring Books or Printables). Laminate your pieces for extra durability
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Nursery Rhyme Story Sequencing
Read preschoolers favorite rhymes and then support them in sequencing the rhymes with these cards from the Pre-K Printable Fun Nursery Rhyme & Mother Goose Activity Pack
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The Jack & Jill Language & Literacy set is a great way to engage preschoolers in learning fun during this theme. This set supports preschoolers as they learn skills such as: Making Predictions, Retelling a Story, Sequencing Events, Identifying parts of a story, Tracking Print, Engaging in Conversations and more!
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Get more familiar with the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with this fun storytelling set!
Learn the story then have fun retelling and recreating the scenes. |
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Rhyming Basket
Preschoolers are familiar with nursery rhymes but they might not quite understand the concept of rhyming. Give preschoolers the opportunity to practice their own rhymes. Provide a basket of items and invite them to pick one and say a rhyming word
The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Up Again) by Dan Santat
The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose by Scott Gustafson
Five Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow
Itsy Bitsy Spider: Touch and Trace Nursery Rhymes by Emily Bannister
Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Math Ideas
Humpty Dumpty counting mat
Children can work together to patch humpty up with this Humpty Dumpty Counting Mat found inside the Pre-K Printable fun Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes Activity pack.
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Hickory Dickory Dock Shape Clip Cards
Practice shape recognition and matching with these fun shape clip cards from the Nursery Rhymes and Mother Goose Activity Pack
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More Math Ideas
Little Bo Peep Color Matching Tails by Best Toys for Toddlers
Nursery Rhyme Sorting by Play Teach Repeat
Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Science & Discovery Ideas
Peas Porridge Sensory Bin
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Make Dog Biscuits
Help out Old Mother Hubbard by mixing up a batch of dog biscuits! These easy no bake dog biscuits are fun and easy to make. Let preschoolers take the lead with measuring and mixing to see how their creation will come out. Follow the steps for this easy recipe on my blog.
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More Nursery Rhymes Science & Discovery Ideas a
Can Humpty Dumpty Float? by Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Playdough by HomeGrown Friends
Discover a new recipe after reading the Muffin Man! Muffin Man Nursery Rhyme Baking and Sequence activity by Fun Learning for Kids
Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again by Pre-K+K Sharing
Jack & Jill Rolling Activity from Let's Explore
Humpty Dumpty Light Table Exploration from and Next Comes L
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales Sensory Bin from Two Steps Behind Six Little Hands
Provide craft sticks, twigs, clay, straws, tape, and glue. Challenge children to create the strongest house. Once the houses are built, encourage children to predict which houses will hold up during the test, record the predictions.
Next, have the children try to blow down each house, record and discuss the results.
Next, have the children try to blow down each house, record and discuss the results.
Provide bubbles and a variety of wands. Encourage children to experiment with both the wands and force they use as they huff and puff to blow bubbles.
Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Physical Development Ideas
Nursery Rhyme Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice
Practice tracing and build cutting skills with the Mother Goose & Nursery Rhymes pre-writing activity found inside the Pre-K Printable fun Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes Activity pack.
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Huff and Puff
Wolf blowing practice: Crumble a pink piece of construction paper into a ball, one per student. Place one piece of tape on one side of the room for the starting point, and one on the other end for the finish line. Provide each child with a straw and pink "ball", encourage students to use the straw to blow their pink ball from start to finish.
Fetch a Pail of Water
While playing outdoors, challenge children to fill a pail of water and haul it to the other end of the play area.
Jump Over a Candlestick
Preschoolers will love this activity! Roll the playing cube, identify the shape shown then find and jump over the matching candlestick.
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Hot Cross Buns Play Dough by Sunhats and Wellie Boots
Spider Web Lacing from Bright Hub Education
Mother Goose & Nursery Rhyme Preschool Social Studies Ideas
Pretend to be Nursery Rhyme Characters
Play a little game of charades with your preschoolers. Draw a card and read it with your preschooler along with the questions and get your preschooler pretending with their peers.
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Read Around the Mulberry Bush
Read the book The Mulberry Bush and then talk about daily routines with your preschoolers.
Recall events and rhymes from the book throughout your day.
Recall events and rhymes from the book throughout your day.
