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Nursery Rhymes

Baa Baa…Sheep...

Baa, Baa... Sheep...

I follow lots of early years groups and one of the questions that come up frequently is, what are the alternate words to…. said nursery rhymes?

One that seems to get lots of responses is baa, baa black sheep.  I have included below some of the ideas that I have come across.  I don’t know who the original creators are so I’m unable to give them credit but I hope that you manage to find something that will inspire you to try something new in your early years setting!

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5 Little Ducks Can Become…

5 Little Ducks Can Become… (1)

Are you sometimes stuck for a song that you’d like to link to a book, a topic/theme or the children’s interests?

Well, number rhymes are a great starting point; you can change many of them to suit your needs.  As long as you know the song well you can change the words in a minute or two. 

5 Little Ducks Can Become…

A few minutes before I started writing this article I thought about how I could change the words for ‘5 little ducks’ to ‘5 little lambs’.  The words that I came up with are:

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