Silly Names

Materials

none

Instructions

1. Tell the children that you are going to say a sentence from a Mother Goose
rhyme, but one of the words in the rhyme has been switched.
2. After you read the sentence, call on someone to change the word back to
the way Mother Goose said it.
3. The child changes the word to fix the rhyme. Then that child can line up for
the next activity.
4. Do this until all the children have had a turn.
Mixed-up rhymes:
* Old Mac Donald had a ranch.
* Mary had a little goat.
* This is the house George built.
* Rub-a-dub-dub three men in a puddle.
* Here we go round the brambleberry bush.
* Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, shoemaker's son!
* This little donkey went to market.
* Little Miss Muffet sat on a buffet.
More to do Story Time: Recite the entire rhymes with the children. Try this with fairy tales
as well. Children can make up their own rhymes and mixed-up rhymes too.