A Handful of Nursery Rhymes for Mary Ellen

I just came back from visiting my very good friend at the hospital. She gave birth to her first child, a beautiful baby girl named Mary Ellen. For some reason, when I think of newborns, I think of nursery rhymes and Mary Ellen actually has some framed nursery rhymes in her nursery so this post of nursery rhymes is a very fitting dedication to Mary Ellen. xo

Hush a Bye Baby poem

Hush a bye baby, on the tree top,

When the wind blows the cradle will rock;

When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall,

And down will come baby, cradle and all.

Itsy Bitsy Spider song : lyric

Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

Now Itsy Bitsy spider went up the spout again!

Jack and Jill poem and story

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

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And Jill came tumbling after.

Up got Jack, and home did trot

As fast as he could caper

He went to bed and bound his head

With vinegar and brown paper.

Jack be Nimble (aka Jack b Nimble)

Jack be nimble

Jack be quick

Jack jump over

The candlestick.

Jack Sprat rhyme aka Jack Spratt

Jack Sprat could eat no fat

His wife could eat no lean

And so betwixt the two of them

They licked the platter clean

Jack ate all the lean,

Joan ate all the fat.

The bone they picked it clean,

Then gave it to the cat

Jack Sprat was wheeling,

His wife by the ditch.

The barrow turned over,

And in she did pitch.

Says Jack, "She'll be drowned!"

But Joan did reply,

"I don't think I shall,

For the ditch is quite dry."

Ladybug Ladybug aka Ladybird Ladybird

Ladybug ladybug fly away home,

Your house in on fire and your children are gone,

All except one and that's little Ann,

For she crept under the frying pan.

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet

Eating her curds and whey,

Along came a spider,

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away


Pat a cake Pat a cake poem


Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a 'B',
And put it in the oven for Baby and me.

Pussycat Pussycat poem

"Pussycat pussycat, where have you been?"
"I've been up to London to visit the Queen."
"Pussycat pussycat, what did you dare?"
"I frightened a little mouse under her chair"
"MEOWW!"