Nursery Rhyme Baby Shower Game

Tap the words that finish each rhyme to see if you are right, then print a sheet after ten.

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Finish the line: "Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they ..."

Pick an answer, then press Check answer. Then you see Correct or Not quite, with the reason. Keys: A to D pick, Enter checks.

Scored round: 20 questions, no time limit.

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How it works

This nursery rhyme baby shower game asks about 44 traditional rhymes: finish a line of Humpty Dumpty, name who stole the tarts, or work out a rhyme from a row of emoji.

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A baby shower nursery rhyme game printable after ten questions

Tap an answer to see whether it is right. The score card after the tenth question shows Print question sheet, 20 questions with four choices each for the guests. Print answer key, under More options, prints the host's page: that is the nursery rhyme baby shower game answer key.

Three rounds of the nursery rhyme quiz

Round 1 gives a line with its last words missing. Round 2 asks who did it: who lost her sheep, who sat in the corner. Round 3 spells ten rhymes in emoji. The Round menu, under More options, keeps a sheet to one round.

Tips
  • Lines follow the common modern wording. Where a table knows another version, the reason under the answer often names it.

Questions and answers

Where are the baby shower nursery rhyme game answers?

Tap an answer and the page shows the right one. All 44 questions are listed with their answers lower on this page. Print answer key, under More options after the first ten questions, prints the key to a sheet.

Can I save the game as a file?

Yes. For a baby shower nursery rhyme game pdf, press Print question sheet, which shows after the first ten questions, and choose Save as PDF in your browser's print window. No file is stored on this site.

How do you play the nursery rhyme game at a baby shower?

Give each guest a sheet and a pen and set a timer. Guests circle the missing words, the culprit or the rhyme. Read out the answer key, let guests mark their own sheets, and give the prize to the top score.

Which nursery rhymes are in it?

Forty-four traditional rhymes, one question each, from Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill to Pease Porridge Hot and There Was a Crooked Man. Each answer links to the Wikipedia article its line was checked in.

All 44 questions with answers

Round 1: finish the line 22

  • Finish the line: "All around the cobbler's bench the monkey chased the ..." Answer: weasel. Source: Wikipedia: Pop Goes the Weasel
  • Finish the line: "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any ..." Answer: wool. Source: Wikipedia: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • Finish the line: "He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers ..." Answer: three. Source: Wikipedia: Old King Cole
  • Finish the line: "Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the ..." Answer: moon. Source: Wikipedia: Hey Diddle Diddle
  • Finish the line: "Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the ..." Answer: clock. Source: Wikipedia: Hickory Dickory Dock
  • Finish the line: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great ..." Answer: fall. Source: Wikipedia: Humpty Dumpty
  • Finish the line: "I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear, but a silver nutmeg and a golden ..." Answer: pear. Source: Wikipedia: I Had a Little Nut Tree
  • Finish the line: "Jack fell down and broke his ..." Answer: crown. Source: Wikipedia: Jack and Jill
  • Finish the line: "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet. There came a big spider, who sat down ..." Answer: beside her. Source: Wikipedia: Little Miss Muffet
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Round 1: finish the line, continued

  • Finish the line: "London Bridge is falling down, my fair ..." Answer: lady. Source: Wikipedia: London Bridge Is Falling Down
  • Finish the line: "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as ..." Answer: snow. Source: Wikipedia: Mary Had a Little Lamb
  • Finish the line: "One, two, buckle my shoe; three, four, knock at the door; five, six, pick up ..." Answer: sticks. Source: Wikipedia: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
  • Finish the line: "Pat it, and roll it, and mark it with a B, and put it in the oven for ..." Answer: Baby and me. Source: Wikipedia: Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man
  • Finish the line: "Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot ..." Answer: nine days old. Source: Wikipedia: Pease Porridge Hot
  • Finish the line: "Rain, rain, go away, come again another ..." Answer: day. Source: Wikipedia: Rain Rain Go Away
  • Finish the line: "Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of ..." Answer: posies. Source: Wikipedia: Ring a Ring o' Roses
  • Finish the line: "Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will ..." Answer: rock. Source: Wikipedia: Rock-a-bye Baby
  • Finish the line: "Star light, star bright, first star I see ..." Answer: tonight. Source: Wikipedia: Star Light, Star Bright
  • Finish the line: "The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the ..." Answer: waterspout. Source: Wikipedia: Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Finish the line: "There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked ..." Answer: mile. Source: Wikipedia: There Was a Crooked Man
  • Finish the line: "Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they ..." Answer: run. Source: Wikipedia: Three Blind Mice
  • Finish the line: "Up above the world so high, like a ..." Answer: diamond in the sky. Source: Wikipedia: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Round 2: who did it? 12

  • At the end of "The Farmer in the Dell", who or what stands alone? Answer: The cheese. Source: Wikipedia: The Farmer in the Dell
  • In "Sing a Song of Sixpence", who was in his counting house, counting out his money? Answer: The king. Source: Wikipedia: Sing a Song of Sixpence
  • The Queen of Hearts made some tarts. Who stole them? Answer: The Knave of Hearts. Source: Wikipedia: The Queen of Hearts (poem)
  • Who had so many children she didn't know what to do? Answer: The old woman who lived in a shoe. Source: Wikipedia: There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
  • Who lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them? Answer: Little Bo-Peep. Source: Wikipedia: Little Bo-Peep
  • Who met a pieman going to the fair? Answer: Simple Simon. Source: Wikipedia: Simple Simon (nursery rhyme)
  • Who sat in the corner and said, "What a good boy am I"? Answer: Little Jack Horner. Source: Wikipedia: Little Jack Horner
  • Who sings for his supper? Answer: Little Tommy Tucker. Source: Wikipedia: Little Tommy Tucker
  • Who stole a pig and away did run? Answer: Tom, the piper's son. Source: Wikipedia: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
  • Who went to bed with his trousers on, one shoe off and the other shoe on? Answer: My son John. Source: Wikipedia: Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John
  • Who went to Gloucester in a shower of rain and stepped in a puddle right up to his middle? Answer: Doctor Foster. Source: Wikipedia: Doctor Foster (nursery rhyme)
  • Who went to London and frightened a little mouse under the chair? Answer: The pussy cat. Source: Wikipedia: Pussy Cat Pussy Cat

Round 3: rhyme from emoji 10

  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐ŸŠ ๐Ÿ‹ ๐Ÿ”” Answer: Oranges and Lemons. Source: Wikipedia: Oranges and Lemons
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐ŸŽ ๐Ÿงข ๐Ÿ Answer: Yankee Doodle. Source: Wikipedia: Yankee Doodle
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿฑ ๐Ÿฑ ๐Ÿฑ ๐Ÿงค Answer: Three Little Kittens. Source: Wikipedia: Three Little Kittens
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿ›’ ๐Ÿท ๐Ÿ  Answer: This Little Piggy. Source: Wikipedia: This Little Piggy
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿ‘ฆ ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ ๐Ÿฅ’ Answer: Peter Piper. Source: Wikipedia: Peter Piper
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿ‘ฆ ๐Ÿคธ ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Answer: Jack Be Nimble. Source: Wikipedia: Jack Be Nimble
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿ‘ด ๐Ÿšœ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿ– Answer: Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Source: Wikipedia: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿ‘ต ๐Ÿ• ๐Ÿฆด Answer: Old Mother Hubbard. Source: Wikipedia: Old Mother Hubbard
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿ”„ ๐ŸŒณ ๐Ÿฅถ ๐ŸŒ… Answer: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Source: Wikipedia: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
  • Name the nursery rhyme: ๐Ÿšฃ ๐Ÿšฃ ๐Ÿšฃ ๐Ÿ’ญ Answer: Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Source: Wikipedia: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

How this list was compiled: Own work. The Game Night Generator editors wrote 44 questions on 44 traditional nursery rhymes, one question a rhyme: 22 lines to finish, 12 who-did-it questions and 10 rhymes spelled in emoji. Every rhyme is a traditional one. On 2 October 2026 each quoted line, each character and each date in an explanation was read in the rhyme's English Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), which is the link on the question. Lines follow the common modern version the article prints, and the explanation says so where versions differ. The emoji rows use only pictures published by 2019, so they show on older phones. Licence: own work