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Poetry and Songs for Children

I have done my best to put together a list of links to parts of the site that include poem, rhymes and songs for all kinds of themes.

The poetry I've decided to include on the site includes a mix of traditional poets (Poe, Frost, Stein, Burns, etc) and younger, nursery rhyme type poems.  Most have printable coloring pages and/or crafts to go along with the poem song.

Seasonal Themes:

• Autumn

• Spring

• Summer

• Winter
   

Holiday Themes:

• Canada Day

• Christmas

• Earth Day

• Easter

• Father's Day

• Halloween

• Mother's Day

• Saint Patrick's Day

• Thanksgiving

• Valentine's Day
   

Other Themes:

• Alphabet    

• Animals

• Back to School 

• Bible | Sunday School | VBS

• Canada

• Dental Health (teeth)

• Families

• Fantasy

• Fire Safety

• Love Poetry

• Manners

• Teacher Poems

• Transportation
   

Poets:

• Alexander, Cecil Frances

• Blake, William

• Burns, Robert

• Carroll, Lewis

• Clare, John

• Frost, Robert

• Guenther, Leanne

• Guest, Edgar Albert

• Kipling, Rudyard  ( 1 )   ( 2 )

• Lear, Edward

• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

• Milne, A. A.

• Mother Goose

• Potter, Beatrix

• Rossetti, Christina

• Stein, Evaleen

• Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Wells, Carolyn
   

Types of Poems:

• Acrostic Poems

• Five Line Poems and Haikus

• Haiku

• Limericks

• Nursery Rhymes and Traditional Songs

• Tongue Twisters

 

 

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Poems for older children and grown-ups!