Name the Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme Characters
Key Words
Rhyming Words
Fun Details
100

What nursery rhyme features a farm animal going to the grocery store?

This Little Piggy

100

Which Jack sat in a corner?

Little Jack Horner

100

If something is beside you, is it next to you?

Yes

100

Roses Are Red

Rhymes with “blue”

You

100

In the nursery rhyme about flowers, what flower is blue?

Violets

200

What nursery rhyme features two children going to do a job? (But they fell on the way back)

Jack and Jill

200

What character wanted to play outside but could not?

Little Johnny

200

What do we call it when someone takes more than they actually want or need?

Greedy

200

Rain Rain

Rhymes with “away”

Day or Play

200

Name two nursery rhymes that feature a character named Jack.

Jack Be Nimble

Jack and Jill

Little Jack Horner

300

Which nursery rhyme features a character who loves to jump?

Jack Be Nimble

300

What character could not stop snoring?

The old man

300

If you “fetch” something, do you leave it where it is?

No, you go and get it. 

300

Little Miss Muffet

Rhymes with “muffet”

Tuffet

300

What is the modern word for curds and whey?

Cottage Cheese

400

Which nursery rhyme features a character who loses her animals?

Little Bo Peep

400

Little Boy Blue and Little Bo Peep both feature characters with what job?

Shepherd

400

If someone is nimble, are they able to move around easily?

Yes

400

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Rhymes with “pouring”

Snoring

400

In the nursery rhyme, “Ring Around the Rosie”, what is in the speaker’s pocket?

Posies

500

Which nursery rhyme features a sticks laying straight?

One Two, Buckle My Shoe

500

Which character went to bed with one shoe on?

My son, John

500

How does the nursery rhyme describe Humpty Dumpty’s fall?

Great

500

Baa, Baa Black Sheep

Rhymes with wool

Full

500

What nursery rhyme object is compared to a diamond?

Star

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