What is your favourite nursery rhyme?

Question

Which did you like best as a kid or which do you find now gets the best reaction from your kids?

Just wondering.

Mines "froggy went a courting". My untie used to sing it to me when i was little. Still like it now.

Answer 1

1, 2, Buckle My Shoe

A B C Tumble

A Big Shoe

A Boy's Thanksgiving Day

A cat came fiddling out of a barn

A C-o-c-k and Bull Story

A Diller A Dollar

A dimple on your cheek

A Duck And A Drake

A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare

A Flying Visit

A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go

A Hopeless Case

A Hunting We Will Go

A Jumper Of Ditches

A King Met a King

A Kiss When I Wake

A Lark

A Little Man

A Little Old Man

A Man and a Maid

A Melancholy Song

A Memory

A Needle and Thread

A nick and a nock

A Pinch of Salt

A Race

A Rash Stipulation

A Rising Doctor

A sailor went to sea sea sea

A Seasonable Song

A Sharp Lover

A Short Sweet Tale

A Slippery Gap

A Strange Thing

A Sure Test

A swarm of bees in May

A Tisket A Tasket

A Was An Archer

A Wasted Journey

A Week of Birthdays

A Well

A Wild Flower Alphabet

A Wise Old Owl

A Wish

About the Bush

Adam And Eve and Pinchme

Alas Alas

All But Blind

All The Verses Are Read Dears

Ally Bally

Alphabet Song

An Alphabet omes

An Apple a Day

An apple pie

An April ay - Alternative Version

An April Day

Animal Alphabet

Ann Ann Come Quick

Anna Maria

Anyone

Apple Harvest

Army And Navy

Around The Garden

Around the Green Gravel

As I Sat Under A Sycamore Tree

As I walked by myself

As I Was Going Along

As I was going to St Ives

As I Was Going Up A Hill

As I Was Sitting

As I Went To Bonner

Ants Go Marching

Away Birds Away

Answer 2

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water

Jill came down with half a crown

She didn't go up for water.

Answer 3

Johnny johnny

yes pappa !!

Answer 4

Bah bah blacksheep have you had a nice day

yes i've been to work, look at all my pay!

Answer 5

This little piggy went to market..

Answer 6

Mine loved... Ladybird has six shoes,,...or ..five little speckled frogs....I used to like twinkle twinkle little star...ahhhh thanks for the trip down memory lane

I sang an extra bit to rock a bye baby which i made up cos I didnt want my kids to worry about the baby being hurt....

Mother will be waiting under the tree

there she will catch you quick as can be

then she will hug and hold you so tight

and watch you sleeping all through the night .

Answer 7

Miss polly had a dolly

Answer 8

Jack and jill

Answer 9

Hey diddle the cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon,And burnt up on re-entry.

Answer 10

Myne is Peter Rabbit has a fly on his nose!!

Answer 11

Lion and the Unicorn

Answer 12

My students and I always had fun with any of the "5 Little Monkeys" rhymes.

Answer 13

Twinkle Twinkle Little  Star

Answer 14

I adored the rhyme "This is the house that Jack Built".  It has incredible rhythm and it includes lots of animals.  I

Answer 15

Row row row your boat

Pop! Goes the weasel

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Skip to My Lou

This old man

Three blind mice

These we just some of my favorites.

Answer 16

The one for little ones is "floor bender"

Touching the parts:

Floor bender (forehead)

Eye winker

Ear puller

Nose blower

Mouth eater

Chin chopper

Gully, Gully Gully (down the midsection or gullet) Tickling of course.

That was my mother's favorite and I've used it now for over 60 years.

Answer 17

chubby cheeks...

Answer 18

wee willy winky

Answer 19

I used to love 'ring a ring a roses', it was fun to play with my friends and at school, when I grew older and learnt the true meaning it stayed a true favorite.

Answer 20

Rock a bye baby, in the tree top

when the wind blows, the craddle will rock,

I was that baby and what bothers me

Is what stupid a*****e, put me up a tree.... :)

Answer 21

humpty dumpty

Answer 22

I cant say i have a favourite from my childhood but as a nursery teacher my favourite to sing with the children is "terrible crocodile"

Answer 23

old macdonald loved singing it to the kids at work