Baby Rhyme Time (For babies 0-11 months and a caregiver)
Snowflake Baby - Broach
Action Rhyme: Snowman
Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman,
Once there was a snowman tall, tall, tall. (Gradually move hand higher)
Then the sun it melted, melted, melted,
Then the sun it melted, small, small, small. (Gradually move hand lower)
Rhymes such as Snowman, help your baby learn about size. Develop your baby's vocabulary and understanding of tall and small by comparing sizes of people and objects around the house.
Wonderful Ones (For babies 12-23 months and a caregiver)
Bubbles, Bubbles - Appelt
Busy Fingers - Bowie
Action Rhyme: There Are Bubbles in the Air
(Tune: If You're Happy And You Know It)
There are bubbles in the air, in the air, POP! POP!
There are bubbles in the air, in the air, POP! POP!
There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles everywhere,
There are bubbles in the air, in the air, POP! POP!
This is such a fun rhyme to repeat at home with your toddler! Make your hands float up high like imaginary bubbles and be sure to clap very loudly every time you say POP!
Terrific Twos (For toddlers 2-3 years and a caregiver)
Books
Too Tight, Benito - Brian & Rossell
Action Rhyme: Bears Are Sleeping (Tune: Frere Jacques)
Bears are sleeping, bears are sleeping,
In their lairs, in their lairs.
Wake up bears! Wake up bears!
Talk with your toddler about bears. Pretend to be a hibernating bear. Build a den using chairs and blankets and pretend to sleep until spring.
1, 2, Go! (For children 1-3 years and a caregiver)
Books
Wow! Said the Owl - Hopgood
Action Rhyme: There's a Wide-Eyed Owl
There's a wide-eyed owl, (Circle eyes with your hands)
With a pointed nose, (Make a beak with your fingers)
Two pointed ears, (Make ears with your fingers)
And claws for toes, (Wiggle your "claws")
He lives way up in the tree, (Point up high)
And when he looks at you, (Point to children)
He flaps his wings, (Flap your wings)
And says, "Whoo! Whoo!"
Sing this rhyme at home with your child. Can he find his nose and ears? Does he have claws and wings like an owl? How is he like an owl? How is he different?
StoryMix For 3 to 6 (For children 3-6 years without caregiver)
Books
The Gingerbread Boy -Galdone
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? - Beaumont
Action Rhyme: I Am Making Cookie Dough
I am making cookie dough,
Round and round the beaters go.
Add some flour from a cup,
Stir and stir the batter up.
Roll them, cut them, nice and neat,
Put them on a cookie sheet.
Bake them, count them, 1 2 3,
Serve them to my friends with tea.
Ask your child to help you next time you prepare a meal. Have him follow simple directions such as finding some of the ingredients in the pantry. What is the first step? What comes next? Do you have a recipe to follow?
Family Jam (For families with young children)
Books
Tacky the Penguin - Lester (YouTube version)
The Puzzled Penguin - Faulkner
Playful Little Penguins - Mitton
Action Rhyme: Penguin Waddle
(Tune: Hokey Pokey)
You put your right wing in, you take your right wing out,
You put your right wing in and you waddle all about.
You do the Penguin Waddle and you turn yourself around.
And that's what it's all about!
(Continue singing with other body parts, such as left wing, right foot, etc.)
Repeat this rhyme at home with your child. It's a great way to teach left and right! What other things can you talk about to illustrate left and right? Shoes?
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