Baby & Toddler Storytimes

Song & Turtle Puppet: "I Had a Little Turtle, his Name was Tiny Tim" Story:   Clifford's Bathtime  board book Bridwell.  I put our giant Clifford the Big Red Dog center stage and could act out the book, scrubbing him, giving him his rubber duckie, toweling him off.  Song:   Large & Small (I showed them the tiny dog so we could compare large and small)  Story:   Tubby  board book Patricelli.  A lot of washing and scrubbing toes and tums, which is always fun. So fond of Patricelli for this age group. Song : Motor Boat, Motor Boat.  I never need an excuse to do Motor Boat, but the baby does play Motor Boat in the tub. Story: Bubble Bath Pirates! by Jarrett Krosoczka.  This book with its simple illustrations and its Mommy Pirate and two little pirates did a fairly good job of holding on to the babies' attention.  Of course, I did have my pirate hat on and my pirate sword and my spyglass handy. Song:   This Is ...

  Play:  Five Bears in the Bed . Of course, Lydia kidnapped my biggest bear before we could even get start, but I retrieved him so that we could sing this fun song. The moms added a wonderful chorus of "Oh, WHOOPsie," as I tipped the bears on to the floor -- where Lydia and Kiley were waiting to scoop them up. Fun. Clothespin story: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? DLTK  has all the templates for this tale. I just printed them off on the color copier (and then gave them to poor Andrew to cut out and laminate! Thanks Andrew!) Story:   Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo by Kevin Lewis is a wonderful rhyming readaloud. I got out my train whistle for this book. Nothing establishes your authority over an audience like a train whistle.  Story: Let's Play by Leo Lionni.  I love Lionni's cheerful mice. I had some of the props for this story ("Let's play ball! Let's read a book! Let's gather leaves!") and acted out the others ("Let's go swimming!...