🌈 World Nursery Rhyme Week 2026 – Complete Play & Learning Pack
Celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week 2026 with our newly updated and expanded play-based resource pack — filled with hands-on experiences, learning stories, posters and curriculum connections designed to bring nursery rhymes to life through meaningful play.
 
🗓 9–13 November 2026
🎶 Join the Rhyme A Day Challenge!
 
✨ NEW FOR 2026
Our latest update includes resources for all five 2026 featured rhymes, with  NEW play-based activity ideas, plus new posters and learning stories.
 
The 2026 update includes:
 NEW activities and provocations
5 NEW featured rhyme posters
5 NEW learning stories
Sensory and messy play
STEM, construction and investigation
Music, rhythm and movement
Early literacy and numeracy
Creative and imaginative play
Fine and gross motor experiences
Extension ideas and theorist connections
Curriculum and National Quality Standard links
PLUS all previous Nursery Rhyme Week resources and yearly updates already included in the pack
 
🎵 2026 FEATURED RHYMES
🕰 Hickory Dickory Dock
Explore clocks, numbers, mice, movement, sound and the concept of time.
Activities include:
Hickory Dickory Clock Sensory Tray
Mouse Runs Up the Clock Ramp
Tick-Tock Sound Investigation
Mouse Hide and Seek
Make Your Own Mouse Clock
Hickory Dickory Playdough Clocks
Giant Outdoor Clock Movement Game
Clock Parts Construction Provocation
 
☔ Doctor Foster
Explore rain, puddles, changing weather, movement and sensory investigation.
Activities include:
Doctor Foster’s Rainy Day Puddle Play
Make Your Own Rain Cloud
Doctor Foster’s Muddy Puddle
Puddle Printing Art
Rainy Journey Obstacle Course
Build Doctor Foster a Dry Path
Doctor Foster Rainy Small World
Raindrop Painting
 
🐱 Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
Explore journeys, hiding, searching, royalty, storytelling and imaginative play.
Activities include:
Pussy Cat’s Mouse Hunt
Royal Palace Small World
Crown Jewel Sensory Treasure Hunt
Pussy Cat Paw Print Painting
Mouse Under the Chair Hide and Seek
Cat Fur Texture Board
Journey to London Construction Play
Queen’s Royal Crown Collage
 
🚣 Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Explore water, boats, movement, floating, sinking, construction and early scientific thinking.
Activities include:
Row, Row, Row Your Boat Water Play
Build a Boat That Floats
Rowing River Sensory Tray
Float or Sink Boat Investigation
Row Your Boat Movement Adventure
Paddle Painting
Crocodile in the Stream Sensory Hunt
Nature Boats in the Creek
 
🎣 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Once I Caught a Fish Alive)
Explore counting, number sequence, fish, water, movement and sensory learning.
Activities include:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Fish Catch Sensory Play
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – Squishy Fish Pond
Frozen Fish Rescue
Ocean Oat Fish Hunt
Slippery Fish Sensory Pond
Bubble Fish Catch
Fishy Water Transfer Station
Fish Scale Sensory Collage
Five Fish Colour Mixing Pond
Fish Trail Finger Painting
 
📚 PLUS ALL PREVIOUS YEARS’ RESOURCES
This is much more than a five-rhyme activity pack.
 
Your download also includes our growing collection of Nursery Rhyme Week resources from previous yearly editions, giving you a huge bank of activities, posters and learning stories to use during Nursery Rhyme Week and throughout the year.
 
Previous rhyme resources include favourites such as:
Humpty Dumpty • I Hear Thunder • Sing a Song of Sixpence • Two Little Dickie Birds • When I Was One • 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 • Incy Wincy Spider • Little Bo Peep • Mary Had a Little Lamb • Old MacDonald Had a Farm • Pat-a-Cake • The Big Ship Sails • The Grand Old Duke of York • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and more.
 
🌿 LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
The experiences encourage children to explore nursery rhymes through sensory play, investigation, movement, music, creativity, construction, storytelling and shared thinking.
 
Learning opportunities include:
Language, communication and early literacy
Counting, sequencing and mathematical thinking
Music, rhythm and movement
Fine and gross motor development
Sensory exploration
Problem-solving and investigation
Creativity and imagination
Prediction, memory and storytelling
Social interaction and collaborative play
 
Resources include connections to EYLF, MTOP V2.0, QKLG, VEYLDF and the National Quality Standard, helping educators connect playful experiences with curriculum planning and documentation.
 
Perfect for ECEC, Long Day Care, Family Day Care, Kindy, Preschool and OSHC settings.
 
🎁 BUY ONCE – RECEIVE FUTURE UPDATES FREE
Already purchased this pack in a previous year? You do not need to purchase it again!
As the featured Nursery Rhyme Week rhymes change, we continue to add new activity ideas, posters, learning stories and resources to this pack and send the updated edition to existing purchasers FREE.