Mother Goose Crafts and Activities

May 1^st is Mother Goose Day!! What a great way to revisit, or teach young children, the famous nursery rhymes that have lasted through the years. Besides just singing or reading the nursery rhymes to your children, do a craft with them that are related to the nursery rhyme.

One easy craft to do is to draw or print out an outline of a sheep. Cut the outline out. Have the children glue cotton balls to the sheep. This craft goes well with Little Bo Peep Baa Baa Black Sheep and Mary Had A Little Lamb. For Mary Had A Little Lamb, have the kids dance around with their sheep that they made while singing the song. For Little Bo Peep, while the children are outside at recess or lunch, hide the sheep around the room. Then when the kids come back into the room sing the song and have the children find their sheep.

An easy craft you can do for Jack and Jill would be to purchase a sand pail bucket (you can find these fairly inexpensive in the stores). Purchase stickers, markers, glue, buttons or other things to decorate the sand bucket with. Let the kids decorate the bucket however they want. Once the buckets have dried, set up an obstacle course and have the kids try to race through the obstacle course with a full pail of water and at the end of the obstacle course see who has the most water left in the bucket. You can make an obstacle course out of anything you have around the house or school. Tires, logs, pillows, etc.

A fun craft project for children that are a little older would be to do a Humpty Dumpty craft. Have children explore different ways to keep an egg safe, a parachute, a pillow, etc. Use a hard boiled egg (kids can even decorate these with a face, markers, stickers or with Easter Egg Dye). Have the kids drop the eggs from various heights and see if the egg breaks. Start as close to the ground as possible and work your way up in heights until the egg does break. Once the egg breaks see if the kids can put the pieces of his shell back together.

Of course, Mother Goose Day wouldn’t be complete without a craft project of Mother Goose herself. This can be as easy as gluing feathers to a picture of a goose. Or you can make a kite and draw and color pictures of geese on it. You can even cut out pictures of geese from magazines and glue them onto the kite. How about gluing feathers all over the kite?! Once you have the kite decorated, take it outside to test it and see if it flies.

For more Mother Goose nursery rhymes check out Dreamhouse.