🌈 World Nursery Rhyme Week 2025 – Complete Play & Learning Pack
Celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week 2025 with this beautifully expanded and updated educator pack — filled with official rhyme activities, printable learning stories, and stunning display posters designed to bring each rhyme to life in a play-based, engaging way.
🗓 Dates: 10th–14th November 2025
🎶 Theme: Join the Rhyme A Day Challenge!
 
Each day focuses on one of the five official rhymes, complete with hands-on provocations, sensory play experiences, and rich learning links to the National Quality Framework (NQF), EYLF V2.0, QKLG, VEYLDF, and MTOP V2.0.
🎵 The Five Official Rhymes for 2025
Each rhyme includes five complete play-based experiences, theorist connections, extension ideas, learning story pages, and matching posters — all aligned to developmental learning outcomes.
🥚 Humpty Dumpty
Explore emotions, resilience, and problem-solving through building, balancing, repairing, and imaginative play.
Activities include:
Build It, Balance It, Help Humpty
Egg Rescue & Repair Lab
Fix-It Slime Lab & Eggy Emotions
Humpty Dough & Repair Bar
Slime Surgery & Egg Engineering Studio
+ more
🌧️ I Hear Thunder
Discover sound, rhythm, and sensory science through weather-inspired play.
Activities include:
Rain & Thunder Sensory World
Thunder Drums & Raindrop Playdough
Slime Storm Lab & Sunshine Rescue
Thunder Trail Obstacle Journey
Weather Lab – Sound, Light & Slime Provocations
+ more
🎵 Sing a Song of Sixpence
Explore numeracy, curiosity, and nature through bird-themed provocations.
Activities include:
Blackbird Sensory Grain Garden
Blackbird Nest Builders
Pocket Full of Rye Texture Baskets
Bird Song Beat Band
Blackbird Nature Detectives
+ more
🐦 Two Little Dickie Birds
Encourage language, sequencing, and expressive storytelling through movement and light.
Activities include:
Feather Friends on the Wall
Flying Peter & Paul Movement Play
Feather Swirl & Nest Dough Table
Bird Flight Slime & Wind Lab
Light Lab – Flight & Return Mapping
+ more
🥁 When I Was One (I Played the Drum)
Set sail on a pirate-themed sensory adventure exploring rhythm, direction, and story.
Activities include:
Pirate Sounds & Motion Map
Pirate Drum & Discovery Trail
Sound & Sea Explorer Sensory Cove
Treasure Trail with Pirate Tokens
Map Makers of the Sea
+ more
 
📚 Also Included – The Ultimate Nursery Rhyme Resource Collection
This expanded edition now includes a huge set of additional posters and learning stories for these much-loved rhymes, ready to print and display in your classroom or learning environment:
🎣 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive
🐑 Baa Baa Black Sheep
🍞 Five Currant Buns
🐸 Five Little Speckled Frogs
👶 Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
🌳 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
🐮 Hey Diddle Diddle
🥚 Humpty Dumpty
🕷️ Incy Wincy Spider
🐑 Little Bo Peep
🐑 Mary Had a Little Lamb
🐄 Old MacDonald Had a Farm
🎂 Pat-a-Cake
🚣 Row, Row, Row Your Boat
⛵ The Big Ship Sails
👑 The Grand Old Duke of York
🌟 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
 
Each rhyme comes with a poster, learning story page, and curriculum links to support documentation, reflection, and family communication.
 
🌿 Learning Through Play & Pedagogical Alignment
Every experience has been designed to:
Support outcomes from EYLF V2.0, VEYLDF, QKLG, and MTOP V2.0
Align with NQS Quality Areas 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6
Embed theorist perspectives (Montessori, Vygotsky, Reggio Emilia, Kolb, Bruner, and more)
Promote language, literacy, numeracy, creativity, wellbeing, and belonging through sensory and imaginative play
 
Educators can easily adapt each provocation for individual, small group, or whole-service experienc
 
Did you know? When you download our Nursery Rhyme Week Pack, you'll receive free updates each year! As the official nursery rhymes change for future Nursery Rhyme Weeks, we'll add new activity ideas, posters, and resources to this pack—completely free.  🎉