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Frog and Toad Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Story: “Ice Cream” from Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel

Puppet Song: “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”
Five green and speckled frogs sat on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious bugs. Yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Now there are four green and speckled frogs.

Repeat, taking a frog away each time until there are no green and speckled frogs.

Song: “Jumping and Counting” – Jim Gill: Jim Gill’s Irrational Anthem

Story: “A Lost Button” from Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Song: “Croaky Pokey”
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the croaky pokey,
And you hop yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about. (ribbit, ribbit)

Song: “All the Little Frogs” (Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
All the little frogs go Hop! Hop! Hop!
Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop! Hop!
All the little frogs go Hop! Hop! Hop!
All around the pond.

Additional verses:
All the little frogs go Splash! Splash! Splash!
All the little frogs go Swim! Swim! Swim!
All the little frogs go to sleep

Book: Frog or Toad? by Jamie Rice

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

Song: “I Like to Hop” – Brian Vogan & His Good Buddies: Born to Wiggle

Closing Rhyme

Back-to-School Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

Song: “We Are Dinosaurs” – Laurie Berkner: Whaddaya Think of That?

Book: I Got the School Spirit by Connie Schofield-Morrison, illustrated by Frank Morrison

Song: “If You’re Ready for School” (Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you’re ready for school, clap your hands,
If you’re ready for school, clap your hands,
If you’re ready for school, and you think it will be cool,
If you’re ready for school, clap your hands.

Additional verses:
Stomp your feet
Jump up and down
Shout hooray

Song: “(Silly) Wheels on the Bus” – Miss Nina & the Jumping Jacks: Every Day’s Your Birthday!

Book: Sounds Like School Spirit by Meg Fleming, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins

Puppet Song: “There’s a Dog in the School” – Stuart Stotts and Tom Pease: Celebrate, A Song Resource

Song: “Shake Your Body Down” – Laurie Berkner: Party Day!

Closing Rhyme

Travel Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Take a Ride by My Side by Jonathan Ying, illustrated by Victoria Ying

Flannel: “Six Little Airplanes”
Six little airplanes flying around,
Zoom…zoom…zoom!
One decided to touch down…zoom,
Leaving 5 little airplanes flying around.

Repeat, counting down until there are no airplanes left.

Song: “The Airplane Song” – Laurie Berkner: Whaddaya Think of That?

Book: Hey-Ho, to Mars We’ll Go! by Susan Lendroth, illustrated by Bob Kolar

Song: “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom”
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re going to the moon.
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re going to the moon.
If you want to take a trip
climb aboard my rocket ship.
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re going to the moon.
In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,
Blast off!
(Credit: Jbrary)

Song: “If You’re Going to the Moon” (Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you’re going to the moon, wear your boots. (stomp stomp)
If you’re going to the moon, wear your boots.
If you’re going to the moon, this is what you have to do,
If you’re going to the moon, wear your boots.

Additional verses:
Wear your suit (ziiiip!)
Wear your gloves (clap clap)
Wear your helmet (pat your head)
(Credit: Mel’s Desk)

Puppet Story: Is This the Bus for Us? by Harriet Ziefert, illustrated by Richard Brown

Closing Rhyme

Bat Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Bats at the Library by Brian Lies

Song: “Flap, Flap, Flap Little Bats”
Flap, flap, flap little bats,
Flap, flap, flap little bats,
Flap, flap, flap little bats,
Early in the evening.

Additional verses:
Clap, clap, clap little bats…
Dance, dance, dance little bats…
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle little bats…
Soar, soar, soar little bats…

Last verse:
Sleep, sleep, sleep little bats,
Sleep, sleep, sleep little bats,
Sleep, sleep, sleep little bats,
Early in the morning.
(Credit: Miss Katie’s Story Time)

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)

Book: Hello, Bumblebee Bat by Darrin Lunde, illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne

Song: “Bats Eat Bugs”
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.
(Credit: Banana Slug String Band: Dirt Made My Lunch)

Fingerplay: “Five Little Bats”
Five little bats sitting on a gate.
First one said, “Oh my, it’s getting late.”
Second one said, “There are mosquitoes in the air.”
Third one said, “Let’s eat them up right here.”
Fourth one said, “I’m ready for some fun!”
Fifth one said, “Let’s flap and run and run.”
Then Whooo-ooo went the wind and out went the light,
And the five little bats flew off in the night.

Book: I Am Bat by Morag Hood

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

Closing Rhyme

Grandparents Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Grandma’s Tiny House by JaNay Brown-Wood, illustrated by Priscilla Burris

Fingerplay: “Grandma and Grandpa”
Here are Grandma’s glasses, (make little circles with fingers over eyes to resemble glasses)
Here is Grandma’s hat, (circle head and pretend to be tying ribbon underneath chin)
This is the way she folds her hands and puts them in her lap. (fold hands sweetly on lap)

Here are Grandpa’s glasses, (make circles bigger than grandma’s)
Here is Grandpa’s hat, (make a big hat overhead with hands and arms)
This is the way he folds his arms and sits like that. (fold arms across chest, lean back in chair and cross one knee over other)

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!

Additional verses:
Horn/beep-beep-beep
Wipers/swish-swish-swish
Doors/open and shut
Babies/up & down
Parents/I love you

Book: Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa by Anna Dewdney

Song: “5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”

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: The Grandma Book by Todd Parr

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

Closing Rhyme

Fresh Water Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Jill Barton

Flannel Song: “Five Sailboats” (Tune: “Five Little Ducks”)
Five sailboats went out one day, (hold up 5 fingers)
Over the waves and far away. (move hand up and down)
With the wind, they began to rock, (lean side to side)
And one sailboat returned to the dock.

Repeat until there are no sailboats left.
(Credit: Adapted from Storytime Katie and Adventures of a Bookworm)

Song: “Walk Along the River” – Laurie Berkner: Rocketship Run (use rainstick)

Puppet Story: Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond by Mary Quattlebaum, illustrated by Laura J. Bryant

Song: “Black Dog in the River” – Kira Willey: Dance for the Sun

Song: “Baby Duck/Duckie Countdown” – Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum

Book/Flannel: Ducks Away! by Mem Fox, illustrated by Judy Horacek

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

Hat Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: The Cat and the Rat and the Hat by Em Lynas, illustrated by Matt Hunt

Puppet Rhyme: “Where is Little Cat?” (Use hat props and a cat puppet.)
Little cat, little cat,
Are you under the _____ hat?

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: Hooray For Hat! by Brian Won
hooray for hat cover image

Song: “I Love My Hat” – Linda Adamson: Love to Sing With You
(Sung with hat props.)
I love my hat, my straw hat,
I wear it all year round.
Summer, (make sun circle with arms)
Autumn, (fingers sprinkle down)
Winter, (shiver with arms)
And spring, (star arms to the sky)
I wear my hat with everything!

I love my cap, my baseball cap,
I wear it all year round.
Summer, autumn, winter, and spring,
I wear my hat with everything!

I love my hat, my floppy hat,
I wear it all year round.
Summer, autumn, winter, and spring,
I wear my hat with everything!

I love my hat, my bucket hat,
I wear it all year round.
Summer, autumn, winter, and spring,
I wear my hat with everything!

Book: I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
I Want My Hat Back book cover

Song: “Hats Song” (Tune: “Frère Jacques”)
(Use ASL signs for H, A, T, S.)
H-A-T-S,
H-A-T-S,
That spells hats,
That spells hats,
Everybody wears them,
Everybody wears them,
Just for fun,
Just for fun.
Ask children for other reasons to wear hats: protect their head, shade their eyes, keep warm, when they dress up. Ask for four volunteers.
(Credit: stepbystepcc via Madison Public Library)

Closing Rhyme

Bluey Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song:
Wave everybody and say hello,
Wave everybody and say hello,
Wave everybody and say hello,
How are you today?

Repeat with: Clap, stomp, floss

Song: “Bluey Theme Tune” – Joff Bush: Bluey the Album

Book: Meet Bluey’s Friends by Meredith Rusu

Song: “If You’re Bluey and You Know It” (Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
Verses:
Clap your paws
Twirl around
High five Bingo
Do the floss

Book w/Props: What Games Should We Play? by Tallulah May

Flannel: “Bluey Houses”
(Hide Bluey, Bingo, and Bob Bilby behind different houses and try to find which one Bluey is in.)

Song: “Bingo”
There was a friend that played pretend,
And Bingo was her name-o!
B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O,
And Bingo was her name-o!

Book: Grannies

Song w/Balloons: “Keepy Uppy” – Joff Bush: Bluey the Album

Closing Rhyme

Construction Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: B Is for Bulldozer by June Sobel, illustrated by Melissa Iwai (draw letters on board)

Rhyme: “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.)

Song: “Stop & Go” – Kira Willey: Mindful Moments for Kids

Book: Bear Make Den by Jane Godwin and Michael Wagner, illustrated by Andrew Joyner

Song: “Toolbox” (Tune: “This Old Man”)
Here’s a box full of tools—
A saw, a hammer and a wrench.
Take the tools out of the box.
But first you have to unlock the lock.

Here’s a saw that cuts through wood—
Back and forth and back and forth,
Back and forth and back and forth,
Back and forth and back and forth.

Here’s a hammer that pounds in nails—
Up and down and up and down,
Up and down and up and down,
Up and down and up and down.

Here’s a wrench that tightens bolts—
Round and round and round and round,
Round and round and round and round,
Round and round and round and round.

Here’s a box full of tools—
A saw, a hammer and a wrench.
Put the tools back in the box.
Then you have to relock the lock.
(Credit: Susan M. Dailey, Sing a Song of Storytime)

Flannel: “Johnny’s Hammers”

Johnny had one hammer, one hammer, one hammer, Johnny had one hammer then he had 2.
Johnny had 2 hammers, 2 hammers, 2 hammers, Johnny had 2 hammers then he had 3.
Johnny had 3 hammers, 3 hammers, 3 hammers, Johnny had 3 hammers then he had 4.
Johnny had 5 hammers, 5 hammers, 5 hammers, Johnny had 5 hammers, then he was done!
(Credit: Miss Meg’s Storytime)

Song: “This Is the Way We Build”
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.

Additional verses:
Saw the wood
Turn the screw
Stack the bricks
Stir the paint
Paint the walls

Puppet Story: This Is the Nest That Robin Built by Denise Fleming

Closing Rhyme