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Garden Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: My Garden by Kevin Henkes
The cover of the book My Garden. The illustration is of a child wearing a straw hat and pink t-shirt standing in front of a flower garden.

Song: “Will Our Flowers Bloom?” (Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
The seeds from the pack go in the ground, (poke with finger)
In the ground, in the ground.
The seeds from the pack go in the ground.
Will our flowers bloom?

The rain from the sky goes drip drip drop, (flutter fingers down)
Drip drip drop, drip drip drop.
The rain from the sky goes drip drip drop.
Will our flowers bloom?

The sun above is bright and hot, (arms make a circle over head)
Bright and hot, bright and hot.
The sun above is bright and hot.
Will our flowers bloom?

Our little seeds are sprouting fast, (fingers grow upward)
Sprouting fast, sprouting fast.
Our little seeds are sprouting fast.
Look! Our flowers bloomed! (cup hands, then spread open)

Book: Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry
The cover of the book Big Yellow Sunflower. The illustration is a sunflower that takes up the whole cover with a bee and two ladybugs on the petals.

Song/Video: “Dance for the Sun” – Kira Willey: Dance for the Sun

Yoga: Flower pose

Social Story: Hurry Up!: A Book About Slowing Down by Kate Dopirak, illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal
The cover of the book Hurry Up!: A Book About Slowing Down. The illustration is of a child lying in a field full of flowers and looking at a butterfly with a dog.

Closing Song

Craft: Cupcake liner flowers
A photo of colorful cupcake liners glued to a yellow piece of paper with green stems and leaves drawn beneath them.

Garden Story Time – Baby

Opening Song

Puppet Song: “When Ducks Get Up in the Morning”
When ducks get up in the morning, they always say good day.
When ducks get up in the morning, they always say good day.
Quack, quack, quack, quack, this is what they say.
Quack, quack, quack, quack, this is what they say.

Repeat with other animals/sounds
(Credit: King County Library System)

Sign Language: Garden, flower, bugs

Book with Puppets: Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
The cover of the book Up, Down, and Around. The illustration is of two children and a dog in a garden full of bugs and vegetables looking up at a huge cornstalk.

Fingerplay: “Round and Round the Garden”
Round and round the garden,
Like a teddy bear. (trace circles on baby’s hand)
One step, two steps,
A tickle under there! (crawl up their arm and tickle armpit)
(Credit: Storytime Katie)

Rhyme: “There’s Something in My Garden”
There’s something in my garden, now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden, that I really can’t see.
I hear its funny sound…
Ribbit—Ribbit—Ribbit
A Frog is what I found!
Ribbit—Ribbit—Ribbit

Fingerplay: “Here is the Beehive”
Here is the beehive, (make fist)
But where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Soon they’ll come creeping out of the hive.
One! Two! Three! Four! Five! (open hand one finger at a time)
BZZZZZZ!!!!! Back in the hive, bees! (buzz and tickle)
(Credit: King County Library System)

Book: Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry
The cover of the book Big Yellow Sunflower. The illustration is a sunflower that takes up the whole cover with a bee and two ladybugs on the petals.

Lap Song: “Bunny Hop”
Hop, hop, hop along,
And bounce on someone’s knee,
Higher & higher & higher & higher,
Bunny-hop with me.

Lap Song: “A Bouncing We Will Go” (Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
A bouncing we will go, a bouncing we will go,
High-ho the dairy oh, a bouncing we will go.

Repeat with rocking and tickling
(Credit: King County Library System)

Lap Rhyme: “Little Frog”
A little frog in a pond am I,
Hippity, hippity, hop, (bounce)
And I can jump in the air so high, (lift)
Hippity, hippity, hop! (bounce)

Shaker Eggs: “The Valley of Vegetables” – Laurie Berkner: Buzz Buzz

Closing Rhyme

Garden Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

Book: Anywhere Farm by Phyllis Root, illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Song: “The Gardener Plants the Seeds” (Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
The gardener plants the seeds.
The gardener plants the seeds.
High ho the derry oh,
The gardener plants the seeds.

Additional verses:
The rain falls on the ground…
The sun shines bright and warm…
The seeds begin to grow…
Flowers grow everywhere…

Book: Mary Had a Little Plan by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Song: “Won’t You Plant Your Seeds With Care?” – Kathy Reid-Naiman: Say Hello to the Morning

Flannel: “There’s Something In My Garden”

Song: “It Is Springtime” (:12) – Junior Jukebox: Four Seasons

Book/Puppets: Puddle Jumpers by Anne Margaret Lewis, illustrated by Nancy Cote

Closing Rhyme

Flowers Story Time – Everybody

Opening song

Book: My Garden by Kevin Henkes

Song: “The Seed” (Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”)
I’m a little planted seed (crouch into a ball)
Planted seed, planted seed.
I’m a little planted seed,
This is how I grow.

Additional verses:
See the rain come sprinkling down…
Sunshine comes down through the trees…
Now I am a growing bud…

Book: Flowers by Vijaya Khisty Bodach

Flannel: There’s Something in My Garden
There’s something in my garden,
Now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden
That I can’t really see.
Hear its funny sound….
Ribbit – Ribbit – Ribbit
A Frog is what I found!
Ribbit-Ribbit-Ribbit

Repeat with other animals, such as a crow (caw-caw-caw), mouse (squeak-squeak-squeak), rabbit (thump-thump-thump), bird (tweet-tweet-tweet) etc.
(Credit: Sunflower Storytime)

Song: “Rocks and Flowers” – Caspar Babypants: More Please!

Book: Grow by Cynthia Platt

Scarf Song: “Will Our Flowers Bloom?” (Tune: “Wheels on the Bus”)
The seeds from the pack go in the ground           (poke with finger)
In the ground, in the ground
The seeds from the pack go in the ground
Will our flowers bloom?

The rain from the sky goes drip drip drop            (flutter fingers down)
Drip drip drop, drip drip drop
The rain from the sky goes drip drip drop
Will our flowers bloom?

The sun above is bright and hot                          (arms make a circle over head)
Bright and hot, bright and hot
The sun above is bright and hot
Will our flowers bloom?

Our little seeds are sprouting fast                      (fingers grow upward)
Sprouting fast, sprouting fast
Our little seeds are sprouting fast
Look! Our flowers bloomed!                             (cup hands, then spread open)
We did this with actions and scarves so we would have colorful “blooms.”

Book: Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry

Song: Lucy Knisley “Wash Your Hands”

Closing Song

 

Garden Story Time – Sensory Friendly

Opening Song

Book: Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson

Song with scarves: “Rain on the flowers”
 Rain on the flowers
Rain on the trees
Rain in the garden
But not on me.
(Repeat with snow, sun, wind)
(Adapted from: Jbrary)

Book: Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry

Song: “Tap, Tap” – Handwriting without Tears: Get Set for School

Movement: Learn the yoga pose “flower”

Social Story: Breathe by Scott Magoon

Closing Song

Craft: Cupcake liner flowers

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Flowers Story Time – Toddler

Opening Song

Book: Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Flower Garden book cover

Flannel/Puppets: There’s something in my garden
There’s something in my garden,
Now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden
That I can’t really see.
Hear its funny sound….
Ribbit – Ribbit – Ribbit
A Frog is what I found!
Ribbit-Ribbit-Ribbit

Repeat with other animals, such as a crow (caw-caw-caw), mouse (squeak-squeak-squeak), rabbit (thump-thump-thump), bird (tweet-tweet-tweet) etc.
(Credit: Sunflower Storytime)

Song: “The Gardener Plants the Seeds” (Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
The gardener plants the seeds.
The gardener plants the seeds.
High ho the derry oh,
The gardener plants the seeds.

Additional verses:
The rain falls on the ground…
The sun shines bright and warm…
The seeds begin to grow…
Flowers grow everywhere…

Book: Bloom Boom! by April Pulley Sayre

Song: “Little Red Wagon” – Old Town School of Folk Music: Wiggleworms Love You

Book: Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson

Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson, book cover

Song: “Shake Your Sillies Out” – The Wiggles: Yummy Yummy

Song: “This is the way we clap our hands” – Kimbo Educational: Teach a Toddler 

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

Closing Song

Craft: Cupcake liner flower bouquet

Garden Story Time – Baby

Opening song

Sign language: vegetable, garden, flower

Book: Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Up, Down, and Around book cover

Rhyme: Five Fat Peas
Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed (hold hands in a fist)
One grew, two grew, so did the rest. (Put fingers up one by one.)
They grew and they grew and did not stop,
Until one day that pea pod POPPED! (clap hands together.)

Song: Hop, hop, hop along (Tune: “Row Your Boat”)
Hop, hop, hop along (hop)
Or bounce on someone’s knee (bounce)
Higher and higher and higher and higher (lift)
Bunny hop with me. (hop)

Book: Who’s in the Garden? By Phillis Gershator
Who's in the Garden? book cover

Song: “In My Garden” – Raffi: One Light, One Sun

Puppets: There’s something in my garden
There’s something in my garden,
Now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden
That I can’t really see.
Hear its funny sound….
Ribbit – Ribbit – Ribbit
A Frog is what I found!
Ribbit-Ribbit-Ribbit

Repeat with other animals, such as a crow (caw-caw-caw), mouse (squeak-squeak-squeak), rabbit (thump-thump-thump), bird (tweet-tweet-tweet) etc.
(Credit: Sunflower Storytime)

Rhyme: Little frog
A little frog in a pond am I, (lap)
Hippity, hippity, hop. (bounce)
And I can jump in the air so high, (lift)
Hippity, hippity, hop!

Song: “Let’s Tap Our Feet Together” (Tune: “The More We Get Together”)
Let’s tap our feet together, together, together
Let’s tap our feet together because it’s fun to do.

Additional verses:
Clap our hands
Touch our nose
Touch our ears 

Book (choral): Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup book cover

Song (shaky eggs): “The Valley of Vegetables” – Laurie Berkner: Buzz Buzz

Closing Song

Spring Story Time – Preschool

Opening Song

Book: Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming, illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! book cover

Rhyme: Little Brown Rabbit Popped Out of the Ground

Flannel: There’s something in my garden

Song: “Won’t you plant your seeds with care” – Kathy Reid-Naiman: Say Hello to the Morning

Book: What Does Bunny See? by Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Maggie Smith

What Does Bunny See? book cover

Song: “It Is Springtime” – Junior Jukebox: Four Seasons

Puppet Show: Spring is Here by Will Hillenbrand (abridged)

Spring is Here book cover

Closing Rhyme

Craft: Fork-painted tulips

fork paint tulip preschool spring story time craft

Flower Story Time – Baby

Opening song

Sign language for flower

Book: Flower Garden by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

flower garden

Song: (Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
The gardener plants the seeds.
The gardener plants the seeds.
High ho the derry oh,
The gardener plants the seeds.

The rain falls on the ground…
The sun shines bright and warm…
The seeds begin to grow…
The flowers grow everywhere…

Rhyme: That’s Me Complete
I have ten little fingers and ten little toes (wiggle fingers and toes)
Two little arms and one little nose (wave arms, touch nose)
One little mouth and two little ears (touch mouth and ears)
Two little eyes for smiles and tears (touch your eyes)
One little head and two little feet (touch head, wiggle feet)
One little chin, that’s ME complete! (touch chin and pat chest)
(Source: Wadsworth Library)

Book: Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry

big yellow sunflower

Song: “Say, Say Oh Baby” – Priscilla Hegner: Baby Games

Song: “Hop, hop, hop along” (Tune: “Row, Row, Row your Boat”)
Hop, hop, hop along (bounce)
Or bounce on someone’s knee
Higher and higher and higher and higher
Bunny hop with me.

Book: Counting in the Garden by Kim Parker

counting in the garden

Song: “Here we go up, up, up” (Tune: “Here we go looby loo”)
Here we go up, up, up (lift baby)
Here we go down, down, down,
Here we go up, up, up
Here we go down, down, down.

Rhyme: Pizza, pickle, pumpernickel
My little baby deserves a tickle! [tickle baby]
One for her nose, and one for her toes
And one for her belly where the hot dog goes!

Song: “Little Red Wagon” – Old Town School of Folk Music: Wiggleworms Love You

Song (shaky eggs): “You Are My Flower” – Elizabeth Mitchell: You Are My Flower

Closing rhyme