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A Plum Pudding

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 36 seconds aloud

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!

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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