Sign language: Mouse
Rhyme: Hurry, scurry little mouse
Starts down at your toes.
Hurry, scurry little mouse
Past your knees he goes.
Hurry, scurry little mouse
Past where your tummy is.
Hurry, scurry little mouse
Gives you a mousy kiss.
Book: Hide-and-Squeak by Heather Vogel Frederick, illustrated by C. F. Payne
Rhyme: One, two three,
Baby’s on my Knee.
Rooster crows
And away he goes.
Flannel/Song: Hickory Dickory Dock
Rhyme: The moon is round
As round can be
Two eyes
A nose
And a mouth like me!
Book: Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus, illustrated by Jose Aruego
Puppet/Rhyme: Where are the baby mice? (with mice in box puppet)
Where are the baby mice? Squeak, squeak, squeak,
I cannot see them peek, peek, peek,
Here they come out of their hole,
One, two, three, and that is all!
(Credit: Perry Public Library)
Rhyme: Roly poly
Ever so slowly.
Roly poly
Faster, faster, faster.
Song: “I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap” (Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”)
I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap
They’re a part of me.
Additional verses:
I can make my legs go jump, jump, jump…
I can make my feet go stomp, stomp, stomp, etc…
I can make my hands wave bye, bye, bye…
Book: Mice by Rose Fyleman, illustrated by Lois Ehlert
Song (shaky eggs): “Mouse in My Tool Box” – Laurie Berkner: Rocketship Run
