Nursery Rhyme Quiz Sheet

Introduction

What You’ll Need

1. Printed quiz sheets with nursery rhyme fill-in-the-blanks or simple questions (you can DIY this or find tons of free templates online).
2. Pens or pencils extras, because someone always loses one under their chair.
3. A master answer key. Trust me, you’re going to need it once debates break out.
4. Optional: cute clipboards or something hard to write on, especially if you’re outside or don’t have a lot of table space.
5. And maybe a little prize for the person who gets the most right or comes up with the funniest wrong answers.

How to Play

1. Hand out the quiz sheets to everyone and let them know it’s a solo challenge no Googling, no humming quietly to figure out the words.
2. Set a time limit if you want (5–7 minutes usually works), or let it be casual while people snack and chat.
3. The questions will be something like: ‘Jack and Jill went up the ____’ or ‘What did the dish run away with?’
4. Once time’s up, read the correct answers out loud and let people self-check or swap papers with a neighbor if you want to relive middle school vibes.
5. Whoever gets the most correct wins. Or just read some of the hilariously wrong answers they’re usually better than the real ones.

Fun Variations

Why Guests Love It

1. It’s familiar everyone kinda knows these rhymes, even if they haven’t thought about them in 20 years.
2. You don’t have to move, act, or be outgoing to play. Just sit, scribble, and try to remember what Miss Muffet was actually doing on that tuffet.
3. People get *really* into proving they remember the full ‘Hickory Dickory Dock.’ Like, weirdly competitive.
4. Wrong answers are usually funnier than right ones, which keeps it light and laugh-y.
5. Plus, it's kind of fun realizing how bizarre some of these old rhymes actually are.

Conclusion