Sign language for clean up
Book: Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean
Rhyme: Exercises, exercises
Let’s all do our exercises (lift baby’s arms, repeat with legs)
(Credit: Babies in the Library by Jane Marino)
Flannel: Five Clean and Squeaky Pigs (Tune: “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”)
Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen
Wanted to go outside and play
Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud
Landed with a big THUD
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs.
(Credit: Mel’s Desk)
Book: Pig Takes a Bath by Michael Dahl, iIllustrated by Oriol Vidal
Song: (Get out scarves and pretend they are washcloths while singing this song. Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.”)
This is the way we wash our arms
Wash our arms, wash our arms
This is the way we wash our arms
When we’re in the bathtub.
(Also wash your legs, tummies, heads…)
Song: “Wash your Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” – Joanie Bartels: Bathtime Magic
Rhyme: Let’s go riding in an elevator
First floor, second floor, third floor, fourth floor (slowly lift baby)
Down (bring baby back down)
Book (choral reading): Tubby by Leslie Patricelli
Song (shaky eggs): “Bubble Bath” – Joanie Bartels: Bathtime Magic
