If I Were in Nursery Rhyme Land

by Janet R. Balmforth

Illustrated by Phyllis Luch

This is a double puzzle. First, there are some verses for you to rhyme. The words to fit the blank spaces are in the column [below]. There are extra words, so be careful. Second, different nursery rhymes are mentioned in these verses. Can you identify and say each one?

If I were the woman

Who lived in the _________,

I’d find a soft bed

For Little Boy _________.

If I were Tom Tucker

Who sang every _________,

I’d ask sweet Miss Muffet

For some of her ______.

If I were Wee Willie

Who ran through the _________,

I’d visit the wall

Where Humpty fell __________.

If I were that black sheep

With three bags of __________,

I’d follow that wee lamb

As it went to ________.

school	blue	town	wool
boy	man	house	night
down	whey	shoe	day