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Rhyme Time Day ideas for OSHC

9 DIY activities for Rhyme Time Day at before and after school care or vacation care. Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.

Children chant poems with a strong beat while clapping, stomping and clicking the rhythm, then create their own group chant poem to perform.

Children sit in a circle and pass clapping rhythms around, copying each pattern and adding new ones.

Younger children retell favourite stories by moving felt characters and props on a board, building narrative and language skills.

Children write and illustrate their own small folded books, becoming authors and illustrators for the day.

Children help cook scrambled eggs coloured green with spinach or food colouring, inspired by silly rhyming stories.

Older children cut words from newspapers and magazines to build silly sentences and poems, playing with language.

Children play quick rhyming games, making up silly words and chains of rhymes for others to continue.

Children take turns adding one sentence to a story that gets sillier with every turn, then read the finished tale aloud.

Children make tall striped card hats inspired by rhyming picture books, then wear them for a rhyme-time reading session.