Horse Story Time – Preschool

Opening Song

Book: Doris by Sarah Jacoby

Song: “If You’re a Horse and You Know It” (Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you’re a horse and you know it, stamp your hooves.
If you’re a horse and you know it, stamp your hooves.
If you’re a horse and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you’re a horse and you know it, stamp your hooves.

Additional verses:
Toss your mane
Prance around
Say, “Neigh!”

Fingerplay: “Ten Galloping Horses”
Ten galloping horses, (hold up ten fingers)
Came through town. (slap hands on legs like galloping)
Five were white, (hold up five fingers)
And five were brown. (hold up five fingers on other hand)
They galloped up, (slap up toward top of thighs)
They galloped down, (slap down toward knees)
Ten galloping horses, (hold up ten fingers)
Came through town. (slap hands on legs like galloping)
(Credit: King County Library System)

Book: The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton

Puppet Song: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”

Book (if time): Noni the Pony by Alison Lester

Closing Rhyme

Horses and Cows Story Time – Baby

Opening song

Sign language for horse and cow

Book:  Baby Says “Moo!” by JoAnn Early Macken, illustrated by David Walker

baby says moo

Rhyme: Rickety rickety rocking horse (bounce)
Over the hills we go,
Rickety rickety rocking horse
Giddy-up, giddy-up, whoa! (hug baby)

Book: Clip-clop by Nicola Smee

clip clop

Song: Did you ever see a baby, a baby, a baby?
Did you ever see a baby go this way and that? (lean side to side)
Go this way and that way and this way and that way (lean front to back, side to side)
Did you ever see a baby go this way and that? (lean front to back)

Rhyme: Trot, trot, trot to Boston (gently bounce baby on your knees)
Trot, trot, trot to Lynn.
Look out baby
You’re going to fall in (lower knees)

Book: A Birthday for Cow by Jan Thomas

birthday for cow

Song: (tune: Row, row, row your boat)
Hop, hop, hop along (bounce)
Or bounce on someone’s knee,
Higher and higher and higher and higher,
Bunny hop with me.

Rhyme: Tick tock, tick tock, I’m a little cuckoo clock (swing baby side to side)
Tick tock, tick tock, stop!
What time is it? It’s one-o-clock.
Cuckoo! (lift baby)

Two-o-clock, three-o-clock…

Book (choral reading):  Are you a Cow? by Sandra Boynton

are you a cow

Song (with jingle bells): “Bell Horses” – Bob McGrath: The Baby Record

Song (with jingle bells): “Happy Trails” – Cowboy Envy: Cowboy Playground

cowboy playground

Closing rhyme