Category: Everybody Story time

Weather Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
It Looked Like Spilt Milk 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)

Rhyme: “Big Round Sun”
The big round sun in the summertime sky (form large circle with arms)
Winked at a cloud that was passing by. (wink eye)
The little cloud laughed as it scattered rain, (flutter fingers downward)
Then out came the big round sun again. (form large circle with arms)

Book: Split! Splat! by Amy Gibson, illustrated by Steve Björkman

Song: “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”

Song: “If All of the Raindrops” – Old Town School of Folk Music: Songs for Wiggleworms

Book: Weather by Jill McDonald

Scarf Song: “We Wave Our Scarves Together”
We wave our scarves together,
We wave our scarves together,
We wave our scarves together
Because it’s fun to do.

Wave them up high,
Wave them down low,
Wave them in the middle
Because it’s fun to do.
(Credit: Jbrary)

Scarf Song: “You Wave a Scarf” based on the song “You Sing a Song” by Ella Jenkins
You’ll wave a scarf, and I’ll wave a scarf,
And we’ll wave our scarves together.
You’ll wave a scarf, and I’ll wave a scarf
In warm or wintry weather.

Additional verses:
You’ll peek-a-boo, and I’ll peek-a-boo… (put the scarf over your face, then pull it away)
You’ll throw a scarf, and I’ll throw a scarf…
(Credit: Adapted by The Loudest Librarian)

Scarf Rhyme: “I’m Toast in the Toaster”
I’m toast in the toaster, (crumple scarf in your hands)
And I’m getting very hot.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, (tilt hands side to side)
Up I POP! (toss scarf in the air)
(Credit: King County Library System)

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

Closing Rhyme

Unique Animal Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Is it a Mermaid? by Candy Gourlay, illustrated by Francesca Chessa

Puppet Song: “I Am Hungry” (Tune: “Frère Jacques”)
(Call and response song w/manatee puppet.)
I am hungry! (I am hungry!)
What should I eat? (What should I eat?)
I think I’ll have some sea grass. (I think I’ll have some sea grass.)
A salty treat. (A salty treat.)

I am hungry! (I am hungry!)
What should I eat? (What should I eat?)
I think I’ll have some lettuce. (I think I’ll have some lettuce.)
A nice big bunch. (A nice big bunch.)

I am hungry! (I am hungry!)
What should I eat? (What should I eat?)
I think I’ll have some mangrove leaves. (I think I’ll have some mangrove leaves.)
A tasty lunch. (A tasty lunch.)

I am hungry! (I am hungry!)
What should I eat? (What should I eat?)
I think I’ll have some algae. (I think I’ll have some algae.)
It makes me burp. (It makes me burp.)

I am tired! (I am tired!)
Where should I sleep? (Where should I sleep?)
I think I’ll find a nice canal. (I think I’ll find a nice canal.)
Warm and deep. (Warm and deep.)
(Credit: Storytime Solidarity)

Song: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

Book: Roly Poly Pangolin by Anna Dewdney

Puppet Song: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”
Verses: kangaroo, opossum, iguana, porcupine, Yeti

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

Closing Rhyme

Pirate Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Monsters in the Briny by Lynn Becker, illustrated by Scott Brundage

Song: “If You’re a Pirate and You Know It”
If you’re a pirate and you know it, swab the deck. (swish, swish)
If you’re a pirate and you know it, swab the deck. (swish, swish)
If you’re a pirate and you know it, then you’ll hear the sea winds blowin’.
If you’re a pirate and you know it, swab the deck. (swish, swish)

Additional verses:
If you’re a pirate and you know it, hoist the sails. (heave ho!)
If you’re a pirate and you know it, walk the plank. (splish, splash)
If you’re a pirate and you know it, say, “Ahoy!” (Ahoy!)
(Credit: Born Librarian blog)

Book: The Treasure of Pirate Frank by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, illustrated by Jez Tuya
Actions to do during the story:
Map (x), Sea (side-side), Island (circle), Mountains (shiver), Forest (monkey), Swamp (jump), Steps (march), Volcano (hands up), Tree (tree pose)

Puppet Rhyme: “Four Little Parrots”
One little parrot,
Singing I love you.
One more joins in,
Making them two.

Two little parrots,
Happy as can be.
One more joins in,
Making them three.

Three little parrots,
Looking for more.
One more joins in,
Making them four.

Four little parrots,
Up in a tree.
One flew away,
Then there were three.

Three little parrots,
Of green and yellow hue.
One flew away,
Then there were two.

Two little parrots,
Watch the setting sun.
Another flew away,
Then there was one!

He became a pirate,
Then there were none!

Song: “A Sailor Went to Sea/Hornpipe” – The Wiggles: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

Song: “Take a Trip Out on the Sea” – The Wiggles: Splish, Splash, Big Red Boat!

Puppet Show: “Peg Leg Pup”

Closing Rhyme

Eric Carle Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

Song: “Zoo Animals” (Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you want to be a seal, clap your flippers!
If you want to be a seal, clap your flippers!
If you want to be a seal, if you want to be a seal,
If you want to be a seal, clap your flippers!

Additional verses:
Polar bear – roar out loud
Turtle – hide in your shell
Flamingo – stand on one leg
Fish – swim around
Elephant – swing your trunk
Fox – swish your tail
Deer – shake your antlers
Giraffe – stand up tall
Chameleon – catch a fly
Yourself – shout, “Hooray!”
(Credit: Adapted from King County Library System)

Puppet Story: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Song: “I’m a Little Egg” (Tune: “Pop Goes the Weasel”)
A little egg lay on a leaf (lay head on hands)
In the light of the moon. (make your arms into a circle over your head)
It wiggled and wiggled, (wiggle)
What will it be? (shrug arms)
Pop! A caterpillar. (clap hands and jump up on “pop” and crawl your finger like a caterpillar)

A chrysalis hung on a leaf (make hands into a “chrysalis”)
In the light of the moon. (make your arms into a circle over your head)
It wiggled and wiggled, (wiggle)
What will it be? (shrug arms)
Pop! A butterfly. (clap hands and jump up on “pop” and make a butterfly with your hands)
(Credit: Adapted from Sing a New Song)

Flannel Song: Today Is Monday by Eric Carle

Big Book: From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (Have everyone do the actions the animals do and repeat, “I can do it!”)

Closing Rhyme

Fruit Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Song: “In My Garden” – Raffi: Raffi’s Box of Sunshine

Book: Odd Dog by Claudia Boldt

Puppet/Flannel: “Five Red Strawberries”
Five red strawberries, sweet to the core.
Bear came and ate one and then there were four.

Four red strawberries, growing near a tree.
Bear came and ate one and then there were three.

Three red strawberries, for you and you and you.
Bear came and ate one and then there were two.

Two red strawberries, sitting in the sun.
Bear came and ate one and then there was one.

One red strawberry, left all alone.
Bear came and ate it and then there were none.
(Credit: Storytime Katie)

Book: Orangutangled by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, illustrated by Aaron Zenz

Song: “The Ants Go Marching” – Old Town School of Folk Music: Songs for Wiggleworms

Book: The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

Song: “Fruit Salad Salsa” – Laurie Berkner: Victor Vito

Closing Rhyme

Bathtime Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems

Song: “Everybody Wash” – Sesame Street: Splish Splash Bath Time Fun

Book: Tubby by Leslie Patricelli
tubby

Song: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” – Joanie Bartels: Bathtime Magic

Book: Get Out of My Bath! by Britta Teckentrup

Song: “Bubbles, Bubbles” (Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”)
Bubbles, bubbles, all around. (roll arms)
Bubbles, bubbles, on the ground.
Bubbles, bubbles, on my nose.
Bubbles, bubbles, on my toes.
Bubbles, bubbles, in my hair.
Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere! (reach arms out)

Song: “This Is The Way We Wash Our Face” – Teddy’s Wonderland: Teddy’s Nursery Rhymes

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

Closing Rhyme

Jungle Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: It’s a Tiger! by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Jeremy Tankard

Song: “Walking in the Jungle” – Super Simple Songs

Finger Puppets: “Teasing Mr. Crocodile”
Spread five fingers out. Swing back and forth.
Five little monkeys
Sitting in a tree,
Teasing Mister Crocodile,
“You can’t catch me!”
Along comes Crocodile,
Quiet as can be.
SNAP!

Continue the countdown until…
One little monkey….
“Ha Ha! Missed me!”

Book: There’s a Lion in the Forest! by Mônica Carnesi

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

Movement Activity: Simon Says

Book: Neon Leon by Jane Clarke, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup

Closing Rhyme

Forest Friends Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf Is Not Around! by Claudia Rueda
let's play in the forest

Song: “If You’re Ever in the Forest” (Tune: “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”)
If you’re ever in the forest,
The forest, the forest,
If you’re ever in the forest,
You might see some deer—
A young one and an old one,
And some that can quickly run. (run in place)
If you’re ever in the forest,
You might see some deer.

If you’re ever in the forest,
The forest, the forest,
If you’re ever in the forest,
You might see some rabbits.
They hop here, and they hop there, (jump like rabbits)
They hop, hop, hop everywhere.
If you’re ever in the forest,
You might see some rabbits.

If you’re ever in the forest,
The forest, the forest,
If you’re ever in the forest,
You might hear some birds.
A tweet here, and a tweet there,
They are flying around everywhere. (fly like a bird)
If you’re ever in the forest,
You might hear some birds.

If you’re ever in the forest,
The forest, the forest,
If you’re ever in the forest,
You’ll surely see lots of trees.
There are tall ones and short ones, (stretch high, and then get low)
And young ones and old ones.
If you’re ever in the forest,
You’ll surely see lots of trees.
(Adapted by Jolanda Garcia, KidsSoup Inc.)

Puppet Story: The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Jane Cabrera

Song: “Silly Dance Contest” – Jim Gill: The Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes

Action Song: “My Blue Canoe” (Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
Start by having kids ask an adult for permission. Then we all put our life jackets on!
I love to paddle my blue canoe, (pretend to row)
Blue canoe, blue canoe.
I love to paddle my blue canoe
Out on the forest pond.

My blue canoe tracks back and forth, (twist right to left)
Back and forth, back and forth.
My blue canoe tracks back and forth
Out on the forest pond.

My blue canoe goes up and down, (bend knees)
Up and down, up and down.
My blue canoe goes up and down
Out on the forest pond.

My blue canoe has a fishing pole, (cast “rod” arm)
A fishing pole, a fishing pole.
My blue canoe has a fishing pole
Out on the forest pond.

My blue canoe rocks side to side, (rock side to side)
Side to side, side to side.
My blue canoe rocks side to side
Out on the forest pond.

My blue canoe turns round and round, (turn in a circle)
Round and round, round and round.
My blue canoe turns round and round
Out on the forest pond.

So, come for a paddle in my blue canoe, (pretend to row)
Blue canoe, blue canoe.
So come for a paddle in my blue canoe
Out on the forest pond.
(Credit: Leah Portz)

Puppet Story: Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen

Closing Rhyme

Goldfish Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones

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

Flannel Song: “Bubble, Bubble, Pop!”
One little red fish
Swimming in the water,
Swimming in the water,
Swimming in the water.

One little red fish
Swimming in the water,
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble…POP! (clap hands)

Additional verses: Increase the number and change the color of the fish.
(Credit: Jbrary)

Book: A Friend for Eddy by Ann Kim Ha

Song: “The Goldfish” – Laurie Berkner: Victor Vito

Book: Too Crowded by Lena Podesta

Closing Rhyme

Nocturnal Animals Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

Puppet Rhyme: “There’s Something in the Woods”
There’s something in the woods, that I can’t really see. (hands around eyes like binoculars)
There’s something in the woods. Now what can it be? (hold up hands, shrug shoulders in question)

Repeat the rhyme above before giving each clue:
I’m an animal who’s big, brown, and furry and who “Roars.” (bear)
I’m an animal who has a long skinny tail and carries my babies on my back, “Click, click, click.” (opossum)
I’m an animal who says, “Whoo, whoo” at night. (owl)
I’m an animal who’s black and white and very stinky, “Stomp, stomp, stomp.” (skunk)
I’m an animal with a black mask and I’m nocturnal! (raccoon)

Song: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

Book: I Am Bat by Morag Hood

Song: “Bats Eat Bugs” – Banana Slug String Band: Dirt Made My Lunch
Bats eat bugs, they don’t eat people.
Bats eat bugs, they don’t fly in your hair.
Bats eat bugs, they eat insects for dinner,
That’s why they’re flying up there.

Coyotes eat rabbits, they don’t eat people.
Coyotes eat rabbits, ‘cuz you’re too big to bite.
Coyotes eat rabbits, they eat rabbits for dinner,
That’s why they’re out in the night.

Snakes eat mice, they don’t eat people.
Snakes eat mice, that’s why they’re on the ground.
Snakes eat mice, ‘cuz we’re too big to swallow,
So they don’t want you hanging around.

Bears eat berries, they don’t eat people.
Bears eat berries, they don’t eat you or me.
Bears eat berries, and they’ll steal your dinner,
So you better hang it high in a tree.

Nothing out there wants to eat you.
Nothing out there wants to make you its meal.
Nothing out there eats people for dinner
‘Cuz they know how sick they would feel

Flannel Rhyme: “One Whole Pie”
One whole pie
Set by the door,
Cut into pieces,
I count four.

Four pieces of pie,
All for us,
Bear ate one piece, (make loud eating sounds as you take the piece off the board)
Now there are three.

Three pieces of pie
All for us,
Opossum ate another piece,
Now there are two.

Two pieces of pie,
Oh! What fun!
Skunk ate another piece,
Now there is one.

One piece of pie,
I can’t wait!
I ate that last piece,
Empty plate!

Song: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”

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

Closing Rhyme