Storytime - Oh Baby!

Toddler

Books: Bouncing Babies by Mike Brownlow and How Do You Make a Baby Smile? by Philemon Sturges

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “All the Little Babies Love Bouncing”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Patty Cake”, “Ten Little Babies” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, “Wind, Oh Wind” with scarves, “If You’re Happy and You Know It” with scarves, “Mix a Pancake” with scarves, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: There was no craft today. We played with scarves instead.

Preschool

Books: The Difference Between Babies and Cookies by Mary Hanson and First Brother or Sister by Monica Hughes (non-fiction title).

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “All the Little Babies Love Bouncing”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Patty Cake”, “Ten Little Babies” on the felt board, and “The More We Get Together”.

Special Activity: The preschoolers paired up to sing “Patty Cake”. They clapped each other’s hands and worked together to make the song even more fun! We also played a game with a giant, inflatable die. Each number represented an action that a baby would do. The preschoolers ate, crawled, talked, cried, had stinky diapers, and slept, just like babies!

Craft: There was no craft today. We played the game instead.

Songs/Rhymes

All the Little Babies

Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”

All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing
All the little babies just to love bounce!

All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing
All the little babies just to love bounce!

Lean to the left, lean to the right

Hug that baby nice and tight!

--Katie at Sharing Soda

Patty Cake

Patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man,

Bake me a cake as fast as you can

Roll it

And pat it

And mark it with a “B”

And put it in the oven for baby and me.

--Traditional

Ten Little Babies

Sing to: Ten Little Indians

One little two little three little babies

Four little five little six little babies

Seven little eight little nine little babies

Ten baby girls and boys!

--Mel's Desk

*To make the song more interactive, change last line to ten little babies eating/crying/with stinky diapers/sleeping...shh!

Wind, Oh Wind

-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

If You're Happy and You Know It (with scarves)

Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"

shake your scarf

wave your scarf

throw your scarf

play peek-a-boo

hide your scarf

scrunch your scarf in your hands

hide it behind your back

--Story Time with the Library Lady

Mix a Pancake

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