Read Rub-A-Dub-Dub aloud to your child while they are taking a bath. Soon they'll be able to recite the rhyme with you from memory. Explain what a butcher, a baker and a candle-stick maker do for a living. Candles, lanterns and torches were common sources of light until well into the 19th century. Thomas Alva Edison is credited with inventing the first commercial light bulb in 1879.
RUB-A-DUB-DUB Nursery Rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub
Three men in a tub,
And how do you think they got there?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker,
They all jumped out of a rotten potato,
'Twas enough to make a man stare.
Of course we jumped into a tub just as fast as we could. If you have ever smelled a rotten potato, you know why we wanted to clean ourselves up without delay...