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