How long since your aged care residents thought about or said a nursery rhyme?
This will get everyone thinking back.
Encourage everyone to say the rhymes through from beginning to end after every question. It’s Lots of fun!
Mary had a little lamb, were did it follow her too? (A) School
Why did old mother Hubbard go to the cupboard? (A) To get her poor dog a bone
What a little boys made of? (A) Frogs and snails and puppy dogs tails
What a little girls made of? (A) Sugar and spice and all things nice
Who did the dish run away with? (A) The spoon
How many black birds were in the pie? (A) 4 & 20 or 24
What was Little Jack Horner eating in the corner? (A) Christmas pie
What did Jack and Jill fetch from up on the hill? (A) Fetch a pail of water
Mary Mary was quite contrary what did she grow in her garden? (A) Silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row
Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey, what sat down beside her? (A) A spider
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, when he fell off the wall who couldn’t put him back together again? (A) All the kings horses and all the kings men
What did Georgie Porgie do to the girls to make them cry? (A) Kissed the girls
When it was raining and pouring what was the old man doing? (A) Snoring
Who were the 3 men in the tub? (A) The butcher, the baker, the candle stick maker
What did the farmers wife do to the 3 blind mice? (A) Cut off their tails with a carving knife
What was Wee Willie Winkie wearing when he ran through the town? (A) Night gown
Complete this ryhme: Insy wincy spider climbed up? (A) The water spout
Mary had a little lamb, what colour was its fleece? (A) As white as snow
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, what did she swallow next to catch the fly? (A) A spider
Peter Peter pumpkin eater had a wife, were did he keep her? (A) In a pumpkin shell
Simple Simon met someone going to the fair, who? (A) A pie man
How many bags of wool did baa baa black sheep have? (A) 3 bags full
Pat a cake pat a cake bakers man bake me a cake as fast as you can, what letter of the alphabet did he mark the cake with? (A) Roll it and pat it and mark it with B
Jack be nimble jumped over what? (A) A candle stick
Old king Cole was a merry old soul, what did he call for? (A) He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl and he called for his fiddlers 3
The owl and the pussy cat went to sea in what colour boat? (A) A beautiful pea green boat
How many men did the grand old Duke of York have? (A) 10,000 men
In the rhyme Hey diddle diddle, who jumped over the moon (A) The cow
Jack Sprat could eat no fat, what could Jacks wife not eat? (A) No lean
Miss Molly had a dolly that was? (A) Sick, sick, sick
What did little Bow Peep lose? (A) Her sheep
There was an old women who lived in a shoe, she didn’t know what to do why? (A) She had so many children
Peter Piper picked a peck of what? (A) pickled peppers
Pussy cat pussy cat where have you been? (A) His been to London to see the Queen
