Category: Poems for Children

I made a pair of stilts, Now I’ll be ten feet tall. I’ll make my mom and dad And all my friends look small. As soon as I get up, I’ll reach and grab a cloud. I’ll watch the next parade From back behind the crowd. Someone hold me steady! Don’t anybody laugh… It’s really […]

We built a boat, My friend and me So we could sail Across the sea. We made the sides From old scrap wood That we tied up With rope, real good. The bottom made From chicken wire, Our anchor was An old spare tire. Well you can guess How far we got… The anchor floated, […]

I asked a kangaroo mother Why she hates a rainy day, She said because her babies Have to stay inside and play.

A rub-a-dub-dub Twelve boys in a tub. Mom stuffed us in here For our weekly scrub. We scrubbed and we washed But have little hope Of getting real clean Someone lost the soap.

I built a big sand monster On the beach down by the sea. It was so big and ugly That it even frightened me! I think it would have caught me, When I went back there next day, If a big humongous wave Hadn’t washed it all away.