Nursery Rhymes Words/Lyrics for infants, toddlers and preschoolers
A Crooked Man | Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater | Muffin Man | Five Little Pumpkins
The repetition of Nursery Rhymes helps your child develop language skills. When preschoolers listen to nursery rhymes, they begin to learn how vowel and consonant sounds go together to make words and how words go together to make sentences. When they begin reciting the rhymes/poems they’ll copy the readers volume, pitch, inflection and mannerisms. Nursery Rhymes introduce children to new words like sixpense in A Crooked Man below. Most rhymes are short, easy and fun to memorize. Don’t be surprised if some of your child’s first sentences come from Nursery Rhymes. | Here are the words/lyrics to our rhymes for October.
A Crooked Man
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
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!
Muffin Man
Oh, do you know the muffin man,The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
That lives on Drury Lane? Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,
That lives on Drury Lane.
Five Little Pumpkins
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate, (show 5 fingers)The first one said, (1 finger)
“Oh, my, it’s getting late.” (hands on cheeks)
The second one said, (2 fingers)
“There are witches in the air.” (point up and look up)
The third one said, (3 fingers)
“But we don’t care.” (wag pointer finger)
The fourth one said, (4 fingers)
“Let’s run and run and run.” (move arms like you’re running)
The fifth one said, (5 fingers)
“I’m ready for some fun.” (punch up w/both fists)
“Whooo!” went the wind,
and out went the light, (clap on “out”)
And the five little pumpkins (5 fingers)
rolled out of sight. (roll arms)
Jenni and I have spent our entire lives surrounded by children. Even if we’ve done something hundreds oftimes it’s always exciting, fresh and new with fascinated children.|
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