Nursery Rhyme Quiz
Test your guests' memory of classic childhood nursery rhymes by having them fill in the blanks.
What you need
- Printed Nursery Rhyme Quiz sheets
- Pens
- Answer key
Setup
- Print sheets with lines from nursery rhymes missing key words (e.g., 'Jack and Jill went up the _____').
How to play
- Hand out the quizzes.
- Guests fill in the blanks.
- Read out the correct answers.
- The person with the most correct answers wins.
Variations
- Finish the Lullaby Set (6 prompts, host key): 'Twinkle, twinkle, little ____' (star); 'Rock-a-bye baby, on the ____' (tree top); 'Hush, little baby, don't say a ____' (word); 'Baa, baa, black ____' (sheep); 'Row, row, row your ____' (boat); 'Itsy bitsy ____ went up the water spout' (spider).
- Classic Rhymes Set (10 prompts, host key): 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a ____' (wall); 'Jack and Jill went up the ____' (hill); 'Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any ____?' (wool); 'Mary had a little ____' (lamb); 'Twinkle, twinkle, little ____' (star); 'The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water ____' (spout); 'Row, row, row your ____' (boat); 'Old MacDonald had a ____' (farm); 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a ____' (tuffet); 'Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the ____' (fiddle).