Veggies Story Time – Everybody

Opening Song

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

Song: “If You Like Vegetables and You Know It” (modified version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you like vegetables and you know it, clap your hands.
If you like vegetables and you know it, clap your hands.
If you like vegetables and you know it, and you really want to show it.
If you like vegetables and you know it, clap your hands.

Additional verses: stomp feet , jump up and down, shout hooray!

Book: Growing Vegetable Soup by Louis Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup book cover

Flannel: Rainbow Soup

Song: “Vegetable Song” (Tune: “Twinkle Twinkle”)
Carrots, peas, and broccoli
Vegetables are good for me
For my snack and in my lunch
Veggie sticks are great to munch
Carrots, peas, and broccoli
Vegetables are good for me

Book: The Life Cycle of a Carrot by Linda Tagliaferro

Rhyme: “Five Little Peas”
Five little peas in a pea-pod pressed,
One grew , two grew, and so did all the rest;
They grew…and grew…and did not stop,
Until one day the pod went…POP!

Song: “When the Pod went Pop!” – Rachel Buchman: Sing a Song of Seasons

Book:  Very Tasty Vegetables by Bryony Jones, illustrated by Rebecca Fox

Song: “Clap your Hands” – They Might Be Giants: Here Come the ABCs

Opening Song

Craft: Vegetables in a basket