Nursery Rhyme Prominent Figures
These three men had their careers, but are better known as 3 men in a tub.
The butcher, the baker, & the candlestick maker
The disobedient lamb who went to school one day with a girl named Mary was what color?
White as Snow
This elderly agricultural man is famous for his many vocal animals.
Old MacDonald
Why couldn’t the three naughty kittens have any pie?
They lost their mittens
What did I ask the Baker’s man to bake me as fast as he could?
A Cake
What athletic qualities did Jack possess to enable him to expertly jump over a candlestick?
Nimble & Quick
Fill in the blank: Baa, baa ______ sheep, have you any wool?
Black
This dedicated dog-owner searched her bare cupboard for a bone to give to her starving dog.
Old Mother Hubbard
When she should have learned from Jack’s mistake, Jill did this instead.
She came tumbling after
Little Miss Muffet, a bit of an arachnophobe, was eating these two things before being frightened away.
Curds & whey
This disagreeable girl with a thumb can really make those cockleshells grow!
Mary, Mary, Quite contrary
Who was fast asleep under a haystack when the sheep was in the meadow and the cow in the corn?
Little Boy Blue
What is an old man who snores in danger of when it’s raining and pouring?
Bumping his head
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t help this poor fellow out.
Humpty Dumpty
Hardly a vegetarian and never sharing his food with others, the 3rd little oinker loved this type of meat.
Roastbeef
This fellow is fond of the taste of pumpkins, and also found that a pumpkin is a great place to put his wife.
peter, peter, pumpkin eater
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four and twenty what were baked in a pie?
blackbirds
This retired Payless employee had so many children she didn’t know what to do?
The old woman who lived in the shoe
Quite mean with a knife, this person chopped the tails off of 3 blind mice.
The farmer's wife
Together, Jack Sprat and his wife licked the platter clean – which of the 2 could not handle any lean?
His Wife
These three fine fishermen sailed off in a wooden shoe into a sea of dew.
Winken, Blinken, & Nod
A tisket, a tasket, what 2 colors are the basket?
Green and yellow
Which elderly member of royalty called for his bowl and his fiddlers 3?
Old King Cole
Careless and clueless, this shepherdess lost her flock.
Little Bo Peep
What did Little Jack Horner pull out of a mincemeat pie with his thumb?
A Plum