Silly rhymes

From the house

• 4–5 things with easy rhymes: a sock, a spoon, a hat, a book, a toy car

How to play

1. Hold up the sock and play with rhymes: “Sock, clock, rock. They all end the same.”
2. Do the same with the others: spoon and moon, hat and cat, book and cook, car and star.
3. Say a silly sentence and let them finish it with a rhyme: “I put my sock on a… clock.”
4. Swap: they start a silly sentence and you find the rhyme.

Fit it to your child

• Easier: Say two words, like “cat, hat” or “cat, dog”, and they give a thumbs up only if they rhyme.
• Harder: Make up nonsense rhymes too, “spoon, moon, floon”, and put two silly lines together into a tiny poem.

Words to use

• rhyme
• sounds the same
• silly
• your turn
• sock, clock

Why it helps

Hearing that words can end with the same sounds teaches them to listen to the parts inside words, an early step toward reading.