Fun and Easy Nursery Rhyme Activities2261849
Nursery rhymes are a great way to bond with your kids as they learn new abilities. Making fun nursery rhyme activities takes only a couple of minutes of prep time and affordable craft items you most likely already have about the house.
Collect some empty toilet paper rolls and make a toilet paper nursery rhyme character. You will need two or 3 empty toilet paper rolls, glue, scissors, glue, and markers. Draw Little Red Riding Hood or other characters and glue them to the toilet paper rolls. Keep all your props in a bag and use them each time you read nursery rhymes with your kids.
The nursery rhyme matching game is a fun activity to play with your children. Choose two characters from every nursery rhyme that coordinate together and place them on card stock and laminate them. For example, you can have a card with a cow jumping over the moon and an additional card with a dish and a spoon to represent Hey Diddle Diddle. Draw the characters with your child and laminate them as soon as you are done so they do not get damaged.
Coloring is a wonderful way to allow your children to let their imagination run wild. Give your child a piece of paper and have them draw various characters. You will require building paper, tissue paper, glue, paint, markers and any other supplies you can think of. Let your child glue, draw, and decorate the nursery rhyme characters any way they like.
A fun nursery rhyme activity you can re-produce with your child is Baa, Baa Black Sheep. Using some paper, cotton balls, paint, and markers, you and your child can make a number of sheep from the nursery rhyme. Paint a few of the cotton balls black to make some of the sheep Baa, Baa Black Sheep.
If you have ever played the game "Name that Tune", then you will love playing "Name that Nursery Rhyme." For a party, divide everyone into two equal groups and read one or two lines of a well-liked nursery rhyme. Give each group a set amount of time to guess the rhyme, and if they don't guess it in time, add an additional line to the rhyme and allow both teams a chance to guess the rhyme once more. Each time you need to add a line to the rhyme, you will take away a point. The team with the most points at the end of the game is the winning group.
Another fun nursery rhyme activity you can participate in with your child is a Rock a Bye Baby prop. In order to make the prop, you will need paper, paint, crayons and precut babies. On a blank sheet of paper have your child design a blanket. Wrinkle the paper until it becomes soft like a blanket. Then give your child a precut infant to rock in the blanket. You can also use scrap material as your blanket instead of using paper. Head over to your local retail store and buy some straws, paper, and paint. You will be creating fun puff art that allows children to pretend like they are the Big Bad Wolf or other characters in the stories they read. Puff art is a cheap and simple way to let kids use their imagination and make a cool piece of art.
