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Little Boy Blue Nursery Rhyme Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities

Little Boy Blue Nursery Rhyme Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities

Materials:

  • printer
  • paper
  • coloring & writing supplies
  • Review material list for crafts suggested

Activity > Presenting the rhyme:

"Little Boy Blue" is an English nursery rhyme and the oldest known version appeared in print in 1744, but i may be older. Little Boy Blue may have allude to the job of hayward, an officer in an English parish in medieval times that would take care of the fences and enclosures to protect the crops from livestock damage.

The common longer version is:

Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack,
Fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
No, not I,
For if I do,
He'll sure to cry.

Print, or read directly from the screen, and sing from the nursery rhyme rebus poster and review the YouTube video.

Little Boy Blue can represent a community helper: a young farmer or shepherd that falls asleep in the hay. The craft below will provide shapes practice and focusing on the color blue.

The rhyme also mentions two farm animals: the cow and sheep. Visit related activities for crafts and activities related to these animals.

Activity > Present Nursery Rhyme & Music:

Print, read and sing the nursery rhyme color poster with text in color and distribute black and white coloring page so children can follow and read the images along with you.

Make sure child understands the meaning of all the words. Identify colors in the picture.

Discussion:

  • Ask the children if they know what type of work does Little Boy Blue is supposed to do when he is not asleep in the hay.
  • Could he be working in a farm?
  • Identify the animals mentioned: sheep and cow.
  • What could the cow be doing in the corn?
  • Why does Little Boy Blue need a horn?
  • Note: Children under 2 will benefit greatly from singing, using puppets, stuffed animals, and/or finger plays with nursery rhymes.
 Little Boy Blue Nursery Rhyme Poster and Coloring Pages
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Little Boy Blue Nursery Rhyme Poster and Coloring Pages
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Activity > Easy Shapes Little Boy Blue Craft

Present this educational craft of a farmer Little Boy Blue sleeping in the hay. It is composed of entirely of shapes and shades of blue.

 easy shapes little boy blue craft

Activity > Alphabet activities available for this rhyme:

Little Boy Blue: Letter F Farmer or Digraph /Sh/ > /Sh/ Shepherd as community helpers. Letter C Cow and /Sh/ Sheep

letter f farmer printable activities
consosant digraph shepherd printable activities
consosant digraph shepherd printable activities
letter c cow printable activities

Related nursery rhyme activities featuring sheep or a lamb:

Nursery Rhymes · Farm >