Wee Read - Monster Mash

Early Literacy Tip: Summarize the book if it has too many words, or just talk about the pictures. Most toddler books have no plot, so it’s not necessary to read from cover to cover.

Books
Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters by Jane Yolen
That's Not My Monster by Fiona Watt
What Do You Do? by Mandy Stanley

Songs/Rhymes

If You’re a Monster
Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"
If you're a monster and you know it wave your arms.
If you're a monster and you know it wave your arms.
If you're a monster and you know then your arms will surely show it.
If you're a monster and you know it wave your arms.
Continue with:
...show your claws
...gnash your teeth
...stomp your feet
...growl out loud

--PreschoolEducation

The Great Big Spider (with spider puppet)

--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.

*This song is "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". but instead of singing the words "itsy bitsy", insert "great big".

There’s a Spider on the Floor (with spider puppet)

There's a spider on the floor, on the floor. x2

There's a spider on the floor,

There's a spider on the floor,

There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.

There’s a spider on my leg, and he’s really really big…
There’s a spider on my tummy, and he feels kind of funny…
There’s a spider on my head, oh, my face is really red…
But he jumps off!
There’s a spider on the floor…

--Mel’s Desk

Five Crazy Monsters (with monster finger puppets)

Five crazy monsters jumping on the bed.

One fell off and bumped his head.

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,

“No more monsters jumping on the bed.”

--Storytiming

Horns & Fangs

Sung to: "Head and Shoulders"
Horns and fangs, knees and claws,
knees and claws.
Horns and fangs, knees and claws,

Knees and claws.
Eyes and ears and tail and paws.

Horns and fangs, knees and claws,

Knees and claws.

--PreschoolEducation