Nursery Rhymes Word Search

Words in the Nursery Rhymes word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

humpty dumpty

Egg like character who fell off a wall

jack and jill

Pair who went up the hill for water

little bo peep

Girl in the rhyme who lost her sheep

old king cole

Merry old soul who called for his fiddlers

three blind mice

Rhyme about mice chased by a farmer's wife

the muffin man

Rhyme asking if you know the man on Drury Lane

mother goose

Name given to the teller of old nursery rhymes

rhyme

Words that end with the same sound

verse

A short block of lines in a poem

nursery

Room or class where very young children stay

tuffet

Low stool or mound that Miss Muffet sat on

fiddle

Another name for the violin in old rhymes

pail

Bucket Jack and Jill carried up the hill

candlestick

Holder for a candle that Jack jumped over

pumpkin

Large orange gourd used as a wife's home in one rhyme

haystack

Pile of dry grass where Little Boy Blue slept

spider

Creature that sat down beside Miss Muffet

cradle

Baby's rocking bed in the rhyme about the treetop

pocket

Where the rhyme keeps a pocket full of rye

lullaby

Soft song sung to help a child sleep

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