Baby & Toddler Storytimes

It was MONSTER DAY at Gulf Beaches and boy, were our little monsters in top form today! Actually, they were very good monsters, singing and dancing and following along with all the stories. They are growing up so fast! Play:  I was a bit sidetracked by spiders at the beginning.  After our opening song we sang the itsy bitsy spider (I was wearing a spider ring.) Hanging behind me from the clothesline were a medium sized spider and the giant fuzzy tarantula I get out for Halloween.  We sang "Great Big Fuzzy Spider Went Up the Water Spout" after Itsy Bitsy and then segued into "This is Little, This is Big." Books:   Little Monsters (pop-up) by Jan Pienkowski was gorgeous enough to start things off right! The babies were fascinated by the brightly colored faces. When we were through, we went back and counted all the monsters in the book. Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley.  I've been doing so many different voices lately that I started doing the same with Bi

Thanks, Heather, for so generously coming forth to do storytime for us while I had my FANTASTIC vacation in the land where so many stories come from:  I saw London Bridge (what was left of the one that fell down), Dick Whittington and his famous cat Puss-in-Boots , and saw the house where the Duke of York bunks. Sandra Boynton is always the best! What happens after a wolf puts on his underwear? This was a lot of fun -- I flashed the last terrifying page around the group, and then SNAPPED the book shut to put that wolf back where he belonged. Cute and rhymy like all Karen Beaumont's books, Dini just can't remember to take his clothes off before he jumps in the bath.  The Dini splashing in his tub made a nice refrain for the kids to splash along to. And then we sang This is the Way We Wash Our Face. The dirtiest look Max has ever given his sister Ruby? Maybe. How I wish I had the clothes to use for this storytime, but it's tomorrow and too late to shape/make.