enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Foxy's Hole - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy's_Hole

    "Foxy's Hole" is a nursery rhyme for children that is played as a game. It is thought to originate from the Tudor period. The lyrics are as follows: Put your finger in Foxy's hole Foxy's not at home Foxy's out at the back door Picking at a bone. The game involves the adult catching the child's finger in a clenched fist, which represents Foxy's ...

  3. This Little Piggy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Little_Piggy

    The full rhyme continued to appear, with slight variations, in many late 18th- and early 19th-century collections. Until the mid-20th century, the lines referred to "little pigs". [4] It was the eighth most popular nursery rhyme in a 2009 survey in the United Kingdom. [6]

  4. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nursery_rhymes

    The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1]

  5. Two Little Dickie Birds - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Little_Dickie_Birds

    The adult, out of sight of the child, will mark in some conspicuous way the nail of the index finger of one hand and the nail of the second finger of the other hand. Both hands are then shown to the child as fists (folded fingers downwards) with the two fingers with marked nails pointing forward – these represent Peter and Paul.

  6. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_was_an_Old_Woman_Who...

    "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject.

  7. One, Two, Three, Four, Five - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_Two,_Three,_Four,_Five

    Illustration of the poem from the 1901 Book of Nursery Rhymes "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a ...

  8. Little Robin Redbreast - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Robin_Redbreast

    The rhyme has been used as a fingerplay. A version from 1920 included instructions with the lyrics: Little Robin Redbreast Sat upon a rail, (Right hand extended in shape of a bird is poised on extended forefinger of left hand.) Niddle noddle went his head, And waggle went his tail. (Little finger of right hand waggles from side to side.) [5]

  9. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Thumb's_Pretty_Song_Book

    scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.