Using nursery rhymes is speech-musical activity where its rhythmicity and simplicity come to the fore. From an early age, a child encounters nursery rhymes when they hear it from parents, older siblings and other family members. Nursery rhymes play an important role in children's play because children use nursery rhymes to determine the roles and the way they play that particular game. Nursery rhymes have a positive effect on child's overall development, encourage child's speech development, cognitive, socio-emotional development, the development of speech creativity, movement and rhythm. Nursery rhymes, as musical speech, are stimulating for verbal communication where children are motivated to free language expression and exhaustive pronunciation and intonation. Children use nursery rhymes to aquire new knowledge and gain an idea of the world they live in. When children use a certain number of nursery rhymes, they will create their own by which they develop their creativity. There are many ways to perform a nursery rhyme and beauty of it is that children discover various ways of performing it and create new and original versions through play. The role of the educator is to recognize the individual differences of each child and to act accordingly so that he can provide the child with the most favorable conditions for his overall development.