Mother Cow - Nursery Rhyme for Kids

Hello, dear friends!
Today we’d like to share with you another lovely cartoon created by Dmitriy Nesterov – “Mother Cow”. If you want, so to say, to kill two birds with one stone: to entertain your kids and introduce them to some aspects of living on a farm, - it is just what you need.

Watch the cow nursery rhyme on Youtube

Your children will like Mother Cow’s family – pretty calves and her vigorous husband – Bull.

Mother cow

While composing this rhyme, I was trying to depict delightful scenes of rural life: melodic sounds of mooing cows, the scent of freshly mown grass filled with the fragrance of wild flowers, strawberries and clover; baby calves with their loving Mother Cow.

Bull

And of course, a milkmaid, who is always ready to take care of her cow and feed it with delicious hay…

Calves

ESL teachers can also use the rhyme while teaching English to beginners. They will find here some synonyms describing what cows “say”: bleat, moo and low. There are two examples of idioms in the rhyme: pull at somebody’s heartstrings and nitty-gritty, which make the language of the rhyme richer. Besides, you can find some examples of the verbs in the Past Simple (had, awoke, sounded, found, was) and the structure used to showing repeated actions or states in the past (e.g. Mother Cow used to live in a country house; Mother Cow used to sing a loud lowing song). I hope the given rhyme will help you illustrate some grammatical structures.

Mother Cow used to live
In a country house.
She had babies – lovely calves,
And Big Bull – her spouse.
Mother Cow used to sing
A loud lowing song,
Which could pull at your heartstrings
At the break of dawn.
She awoke from her sleep
In a large bungalow,
And began to moo and bleat,
Which sounded so mellow.
As soon as the song
Reached a milkmaid’s ear,
She used to exclaim,
“I’m coming, oh dear!
“I must hurry up,
‘cause it’s time to milk Sweety!
Oh my dear Sweety!
Your song sounds pretty!”
Soon after milking Sweety
She found it nitty-gritty
To fetch some grass with clover
And wild strawberries all over!
It was a lovely treat
For the family to eat!