Colors: Green Baby Lap Time, 5/30/13

 Colors: Green Baby Lap Time, 5/30/13

Book: Little Garden by Lucy Richards
This sweet little book tells us who makes the various sounds we hear in the garden. The babies were into it. Their adults were not. 

Flannel Board Song: Oh Yellow Flower
Bless those parents who picked up the tune and sang right out! They were a good example for some of our moms who just didn't feel like paying attention today.

Rhyme: Tony Chestnut

Rhyme: One Two

Song: All the Little Babies

Book: In the Tall Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
This book is a bit long for babies, believe it or not. They would have done better had it been half the length.

Song: I’m a Little Green Frog

Song: Bumpin’ Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon 

 Song: Go In and Out the Window 

Song: ABCs

Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 

Rhyme with Cow Puppet: Hey Diddle Diddle

Song: Row Your Boat

I use the same hello and goodbye songs at almost every session. Click here for the tunes and words. For descriptions of each of my story times, click here.

Colors: Red Toddler Lap Time, 5/30/13

 Colors: Red Toddler Lap Time, 5/30/13

Book: Little Mouse, Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Audrey and Don Wood
This group didn't seem to understand this book. I think maybe they just weren't quite old enough to get it. There's something about the mouse's face, though, that just gets me every time. 

Song: Four Red Cherries
The kids got into this one, and since it wasn't one we use all the time, we did it three times to give the kids a chance to catch on and participate.

Book: Little Robin Redbreast illustrated by Shari Halpern
The kids were really restless during this book, and no one clapped at the end, or even seemed to notice I had stopped reading.

Rhyme with Stick Puppets: Two Little Red Birds

Song: Bumpin’ Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon

Book: Fire Truck by Peter Sis
One little boy fell instantly in love with this book, and he wound up checking it out at the end of the session. His mom said it would be the first book he ever borrowed from the library! That made my morning, for sure.

Song: Hurry Hurry Drive the Firetruck
The kids always like this one. They did a great job "fighting" the fire.

Rhyme: Ladybug, Ladybug

Rhyme: I’m a Little Ladybug
This was a last-minute addition to story time, so I only did the ladybug verse.

Activities with Foam Butterflies

• Song: Fly Like a Butterfly
• Rhyme: Butterflies Up, Butterflies Down
• Song: There's a Butterfly on My Head

Song: Monkeys on the Bed


I use the same hello and goodbye songs at almost every session. Click here for the tunes and words. For descriptions of each of my story times, click here.