Nursery Rhyme: Diddle Diddle Dumpling

I’ve had this nursery rhyme stuck in my head for a while, so I figured to make it with the kids to help with it being stuck there. There’s something about the Diddle Diddle Dumpling nursery rhyme that sticks in my head, and I have to say adding it to our Nursery Rhyme book did not really help with this problem, but it did make for a fun Book and Activity while Homeschooling Preschool.

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That didn’t work, especially since for some reason I printed up a slightly different version from what’s stuck in my head. Why did I do this? I have no idea.

Hi, Future Ticia 2024 is updating the pictures with a logo, and actually writing down some instructions so you know what to do (and making a new one in the process), and generally making this more useful to people.

Diddle Diddle Dumpling nursery rhyme craft supplies

printout (on the subscriber page, JOIN MY NEWSLETTER), coloring supplies (the kids prefer markers), gluesticks, extra: fabric for a blanket (we didn’t do this because of time constraints, future Ticia 2024 when remaking it did use the fabric)

Making the Diddle Diddle Dumpling nursery rhyme craft

I have to say, I think there is something just in the cutting and glueing the craft. The fine motor skills you’re refining is a big deal, and one that is becoming less common in this age of screens, says Future Ticia 2024.

1. Color your pictures. This takes immense concentration, do not ask me questions right now Mommy!

2. Cut it out. Notice the matching bandaids on my sons’ heads. We are now at 1.5 weeks from a major head injury. Three weeks from the last ER visit.

3. Then decide that he needs another bed. I’m not quite sure why. All three of them decided there was something else needed.

4. If you want glue a blanket to the bottom of the bed, so you can make his bed. We didn’t do this.

Not a particularly inspiring post, but it was fun and easy and the kids enjoyed it. Next week we make pumpkin nursery rhymes. I actually have a couple of projects planned (including one I just thought of as I’m sitting here).

Future Ticia 2024 wonders just what it is I thought of while writing this Diddle Diddle Dumpling post. I will never know the mysteries of past Ticia.

Expanding this into a reading lesson

Diddle Diddle Dumpling works because of alliteration and rhyming. So here are the items I would look for with this nursery rhyme:

• Look for the letter D and color it
• Look for the letter I and color it
  • both of these are the big sounds you tend to hear while saying the rhyme
• Look for the rhyming words
  • all of the rhymes are at the end of the line, and it is an AAAA rhyming scheme, there is no complexity

Okay, that’s it, there’s not a lot here for reading.

Turn this into a hygiene lesson

A hygiene lesson Ticia?

That’s right, “my son John” does not properly get ready for bed and kids in preschool are still learning bedtime routines. So you could practice a bedtime routine, and maybe if you have any sequence cards, you could make a getting ready for bed sequence.

• brush teeth
• change into pajamas (which means take off your socks and shoes)
• get into bed

It’s simple, but it would be a fun game to pretend to play-act.

Okay, that’s all I’m thinking of offhand, if you’ve got more ideas, let me know.

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