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 8 million children from countries around the world 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.
When is World Nursery Rhyme Week 2026?
The dates for 2026 are the 9th to 13th November. Registration is free via this link
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 2026 are:
Hickory Dickory Dock
Doctor Foster
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
Row Row Row Your Boat
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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!
Visit our gallery!
Take a look at our gallery pages to see some of the activities that parents, teachers, carers and early years practitioners have organised in previous years.
