A short riddle about flour and fruit meeting in a pudding bag, followed by the classic face-tracing rhyme 'Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, Nose, Mouth, and Chin', which ends in a tickly chin-chopper. Good for a lap game where each line touches a different feature.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string;
If you'll tell me this riddle,
I'll give you a ring.
FOREHEAD, EYES, CHEEKS, NOSE, MOUTH, AND CHIN
Here sits the Lord Mayor,
Here sit his two men,
Here sits the cock,
Here sits the hen,
Here sit the little chickens,
Here they run in.
Chin-chopper, chin-chopper, chin chopper, chin!
About this rhyme
Text literally combines two traditional rhymes: the flour-and-fruit riddle, then a labelled face-touching rhyme headed 'FOREHEAD, EYES, CHEEKS, NOSE, MOUTH, AND CHIN'.
"A Plum Pudding" opens with a riddle: flour from England, fruit from Spain, brought together and tied up in a bag, essentially how a plum pudding gets made and boiled. The text then runs straight into a second, separate little rhyme for touching a baby's face, forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, mouth and chin, naming each part as you go.
Two rhymes for the price of one here, so take them one at a time.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition