Category: Poems for Children

“Just one apple per student,” A sign was placed there to say. In bold print, “God is watching, Put only one on your tray.” Then on the cookie table, A sign painted by the same nun, “A clean plate earns a cookie, But you must take only one.” “Take all the cookies you want,” The […]

I collect all kinds of insects, It’s something that I like to do. I stick them to a piece of cardboard With pins and little dabs of glue. I know an arachnid’s not an insect But I have a special spider. It’s the one that scared Miss Muffet When it came and sat beside her. […]

I found an open can of paint That someone left in our guest room. I thought that I would paint some things And so I painted Mom’s new broom. I painted our new kitchen sink And several of the kitchen chairs. I painted lots of pretty things And left them drying on the stairs. I […]

Yesterday I discovered something That not even my teacher knows. My school desk is a rocket ship; Think of a place, and off it goes. When our math class gets too boring, I’ll take a fast trip to the moon. I’ll explore all of the craters, But I’ll get back for lunch at noon. I’ll […]

They watched the tiger in his cage, The small boy standing by his dad. “If he got out,” the father said, “It surely would be very bad!” “The sign says it’s a man-eater,” The little boy quietly said. “If the tiger was to eat you, Doesn’t that mean that you’d be dead?” The dad, pleased […]