Hands Story Time – Baby

Opening song

Sign language: Wash Hands

Book: Hands Can by Cheryl Wilis Hudson, photographs by John-Francis Bourke

hands can book cover

Song: They’re a Part of Me (Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)

I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap
They’re a part of me.

I can make my feet go stomp, stomp, stomp, etc…
I can make my hands wave bye, bye, bye…

Rhyme: Hurry scurry little mouse

Book: A Kiss for You! by Joan Holub, illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church

A Kiss For You book cover

Song: “Clap Your Hands” – Wee Sing: Wee Sing Children’s Songs and Fingerplays

Song: (Tune: “Shortnin’ Bread”)
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’, bouncin’
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’ round.
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’, bouncin’
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’ round.

Lean to the left, lean to the right,
Now hug that baby nice and tight.
Lean to the left, lean to the right,
Now hug that baby nice and tight.

Daddy’s little baby loves wigglin’ wigglin’ etc.

Book/Song: If You’re Happy and You Know It by David A. Carter

If You're Happy and You Know It book cover

Rhyme: Here we go up, up, up

Song: “Hands Go Up and Down” – Fisher Price: Babbles to Books

Book (Choral): Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury

clap hands book cover

Song (shaky eggs): “Clap My Hands” – Milkshake: Happy Songs

Closing rhyme