Things that Go Story Time – Baby

Opening Song: “Hello Bubble”
Hello bubble, hello bubble,
Come and land, come and land,
Right in the middle, right in the middle,
Of my hand, of my hand.

Puppet Song: “When Ducks Get Up in the Morning”
When ducks get up in the morning, they always say good day.
When ducks get up in the morning, they always say good day.
Quack, quack, quack, quack, this is what they say.
Quack, quack, quack, quack, this is what they say.

Repeat with other animals/sounds
(Credit: King County Library System)

Sign Language: Car

Book: Clip-Clop! by Nicola Smee
Clip-Clop book cover

Song: “Roly Poly” (Tune: “Frère Jacques”)
Roly poly, roly poly
Up, up, up
up, up, up
Roly roly poly
roly roly poly
down, down, down
down, down, down

Repeat with: out/in, fast/slow
(Credit: Jbrary)

Song: “The Wheels on the Bus”
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All through the town.

Repeat with: horn/beep-beep-beep, wipers/swish-swish-swish, doors/open and shut, babies/up & down, parents/”I love you”

Book: Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Emma Garcia

Lap Song: “Bumpity Bumpity Goes the Dump Truck”
Bumpity bumpity goes the dump truck.
Bumpity bumpity goes the dump truck.
Bumpity bumpity goes the dump truck.
Dump out the load. (tip baby to the side)
(Credit: Jbrary)

Lap Song: “Giddyap Giddyap”
Giddyap, giddyap ride to town (bounce)
Giddyap, giddyap up and down (lift)
Giddyap fast, giddyap slow
Giddyap, giddyap WHOA! (lean baby back)
(Credit: Read Sing Play)

Lap Rhyme: “Alice the Camel”
Alice the Camel has 2 humps (bounce)
Alice the Camel has 2 humps
Alice the Camel has 2 humps
So go, Alice, go!

Additional verses:
Alice the camel has 1 hump…So go, Alice, go!
Alice the camel has no humps…Because Alice is a horse!

Song: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

Repeat with: bounce, sway, tickle

Shaker Eggs: “Shake Your Shakers” (Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
Shake your shakers, shake, shake, shake,
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake shake.
Shake your shakers, shake, shake, shake,
Shake your shakers.

Additional verses:
Shake your shakers high, high, high
Shake your shakers low, low, low
Shake your shakers fast, fast, fast
Shake your shakers slow, slow, slow

Closing Rhyme

Trucks Story Time – Toddler

Opening Song

Book: I’m a Truck Driver by Jonathan London, illustrated by David Parkins

Song: “Where are Trucks?” (Tune: “Where is Thumbkin?”) (with pictures of trucks on sticks, do once with fingers to demonstrate what the kids should do)
Where is pick-up truck?
Where is pick-up truck?
Here I am. Here I am.
How are you today, truck? Very well, I thank you.
Drive away. Drive away.

Additional verses:
Where is tow truck. . .
Where is garbage truck. . .
Where is fire truck. . .

Song: “The Wheels on the Truck”
The wheels on the truck go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The wheels on the truck go round and round
All through the town.

Additional verses:
The shovel on the truck goes dig, dig, dig…
The horn on the truck goes honk, honk, honk…

Book: Red Light, Green Light by Anastasia Suen, illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max

Song: “Old MacDonald Had a Truck”
Old MacDonald had a truck, E I E I O!
And on this truck, he had some wheels,
E I E I O!
With a roll, roll here and a roll, roll there.
Here a roll, there a roll,
Everywhere a roll, roll!
Old MacDonald had a truck, E I E I O!

Additional verses:
Wipers/swish
Horn/beep
(Credit: Green Tree Public Library)

Song: “Clap Your Hands” – They Might Be Giants: Here Come the ABCs

Book: Maisy’s Recycling Truck by Lucy Cousins

Song: “If You’re Happy and You Know It, Start Your Truck” – Tonka: DIG IT! Sandbox Tunes (end song after “blow your sirens”)

Song: “Bodies 1-2-3” – Peter and Ellen Allard: Sing it! Say it! Stamp it! Sway it! Vol. 2

Song: “The Monkey Dance” – The Wiggles: Yummy Yummy

Song: “All the Fish” – Sue Schnitzer: Wiggle and Whirl, Clap and Nap

Song: “Icky Sticky Bubble Gum” – David Landau: Kids and Kitties

Closing Rhyme

Construction Story Time – Baby

Opening Song

Sign Language: colors, truck, build

Book: Digger Man by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha

Rhyme: I Bounce You Here
I bounce you here, I bounce you there
I bounce you, bounce you everywhere!

I tickle you here, I tickle you there
I tickle you, tickle you everywhere!

I hug you here, I hug you there
I hug you, hug you everywhere!
(Credit: Read Sing Play)

Song/Book: Cement Mixer’s ABCs by Sherri Duskey Rinkder and Ethan Long


Rhyme: Round and Round the Garden
Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (swirl finger around palm)
One step, two step (walk fingers up child’s arm)
Hidden under there! (tickle child’s underarm)
(Credit: Storytime Katie)

Book: Machines at Work by Byron Barton

Song: “Hop, Hop, Hop Along” (Tune: “Row Your Boat”)
Hop, hop, hop along (hop)
Or bounce on someone’s knee (bounce)
Higher and higher and higher and higher (lift)
Bunny hop with me. (hop)

Song/Book: Old MacDonald Had a Truck by Steve Goetz

Rhyme (if time): Brick by Brick
Brick by brick
By brick by brick,
My building’s so high,
It’s scraping the sky.
(Place fists one on top of the other, going higher each time.)

Brick by brick
By brick by brick,
My building will sway
When the wind blows this way.
(Sway left, then right.)

Brick by brick
By brick by brick,
Now I’m ready to stop
And a flag goes on top.
(Open one fist and wave hand left and right.)

Book (if time): Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia

Song (if time): “Colors Over You” (Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle”)
Signs – red, yellow, green, blue, colors, flower, tree, sun, sea
Red and yellow, green and blue, these are the colors over you.
Red as a flower, green as a tree,
Yellow as the sun, and blue as the sea.
Red and yellow, green and blue, these are the colors over you!
(Credit: Read Sing Play)

Closing rhyme

 

Frozen Treats Story Time – Everybody

Opening song

Book: What Can You Do with a Paleta? by Carmen Tafolla

Song: “Ice Cream Cone” (Tune: “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”)
We all want an ice cream cone, ice cream cone, ice cream cone
We all want an ice cream cone, we’ll eat it right away.

Chocolate is our favorite kind, favorite kind, favorite kind
Chocolate is our favorite kind, we’d eat it every day.

(add as many flavor verses as you like)

Thank you for the ice cream cone, ice cream cone, ice cream cone
Thank you for the ice cream cone, it really hit the spot!

Book: Little Ice Cream Truck by Margery Cuyler

Flannel: Ice Cream Colors
We have ice cream, the best in town,
Let us begin with chocolate brown.

Now, let us scoop up some bubble-gum pink.
It is sweet and yummy, the best, some think.

Here is ice cream minty and green,
It is the creamiest I have ever seen.

Yellow ice cream is lemony and tart,
We like its taste from the very start.

Scoops of blueberry would make my day,
Look at all this ice cream, hip, hip, hooray!

Red ice cream is a strawberry delight,
All these scoops are a wonderful sight.

Vanilla white is a popular flavor,
It tastes very good to an ice-cream craver.

Purple ice cream really gives me a kick,
Good and yummy until the very last lick.

Ice cream, ice cream, what a cool sensation,
We love ice cream in any combination!
(Credit: Step by Step)

Song: “We Are Ice Cream Cones” (Tune: “The Grand Old Duke of York”)
We are ice cream cones
On a summer’s day,
Melting, melting, melting, melting,
Melting all away.

Book: Ice Cream Trucks by Luke Harasymiw

Song: “Milkshake Song” – Old Town School of Folk Music: Songs for Wiggleworms
You take a little milk, pour some milk
And you take a little cream, pour some cream
You stir it all up
You shake it and you’ll sing…a 1,2,3,4

Milkshake, milkshake shake it up, shake it up
Milkshake, milkshake shake it all up!
Milkshake, milkshake shake it up, shake it up
Milkshake, milkshake shake it all up!

Book: Wemberly’s Ice-Cream Star by Kevin Henkes

Song (with ukulele chords): “If All the Raindrops”
C
If all the raindrops

            G7                               C
Were lemon drops and gumdrops

C                   G7                           C
Oh, what a rain that would be!

C                         G7                     C                      G7
Standing outside, with my mouth open wide

C                G7               C                G7
Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah!

C                                               G7                             C
If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops,

C                    G7                     C
Oh, what a rain it would be!

Additional verses:
If all the snowflakes
Were candy bars and milkshakes…

 If all the sunbeams
Were bubblegum and ice cream…

Closing Song

 

Construction Story Time – Baby

Opening Song

Sign Language: Truck (big flat steering wheel)

Book: Roadwork by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock

Roadwork book cover

Song: Ants go marching

Rhyme: Great A, little a
Bouncing B,
The cat’s in the cupboard,
But she can’t see me.

Book: Machines at Work by Byron Barton

machines at work

Song: Let’s Tap our Feet Together (Tune: “The More We Get Together”)
Let’s tap our feet together, together, together,
Let’s tap our feet together, because it’s fun to do.
Let’s clap our hands….
Let’s touch our nose…
Let’s touch our ears…

Song: “Little Red Wagon” – Old Town School of Folk Music: Wiggleworms Love You

Rhyme: Pizza, pickle, pumpernickel
My little baby deserves a tickle! (tickle baby)
One for her nose, and one for her toes
And one for her tummy where the hot dog goes!

Song: This is the way we pound our nails, pound our nails, pound our nails
This is the way we pound our nails, so early in the morning
(Saw the wood, stack the bricks, stir the paint, paint the walls)
Credit: Everything Preschool

Book (Choral): Tip, Tip, Dig, Dig by Emma Garcia

tip tip dig dig

Song (shaky eggs): “Butterfly Driving a Truck” – Caspar Babypants: Sing Along!

Closing Rhyme