What is World Nursery Rhyme Week?

Founded by Music Bugs and launched in 2013, World Nursery Rhyme Week promotes the importance of nursery rhymes in early childhood development and education.

Over 5 million children from 113 countries have taken part since 2013. The initiative is open to parents, Early Years practitioners and anybody who works with children under the age of 7.

The Rhyme A Day Challenge

Each year, we choose 5 rhymes and encourage children to take part in our ‘Rhyme a Day’ challenge by singing the nursery rhymes and taking part in supporting activities. 

The 5 official rhymes for 2024 are:

Twinkle Twinkle

Old Macdonald

The Big Ship Sails

Incy Wincy Spider

5 Currant Buns

Nursery rhymes are excellent teaching tools and can help to develop:

language and literacy skills

numeracy skills

social, physical and emotional skills – they are so much fun!