MOVEMENT: Welcome Song*
MOVEMENT: Peek-a-Boo*
BOUNCE: Ride a Little Pony*
BOOK:
Giddy-up! Let’s Ride! by Flora McDonnell
MOVEMENT: “Clap, Tap and Bend” from It’s Toddler Time by Carol Hammett and Elaine Bueffel
FLANNELBOARD:
I Gave My Horse An Apple
Template and idea from In the Children’s Room
Rhyme from here
I gave my horse an apple,
(pretend to give something)
And she gave me a neigh.
(neigh)
I gave my horse a carrot,
(pretend to give something)
And she moved her head this way.
(move head up and down)
I gave my horse a sugar lump,
(pretend to give something)
She gave me a smile.
(smile big)
And then she took me for a ride,
For more than half a mile.
(slap hands on thighs like galloping)
BOUNCE: “Smooth Road to London Town” from A Smooth Road to London Town: Songs from the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program by Kathy Reid-Naiman
BOOK:
Clip-Clop! by Nicola Smee
TICKLE: Round and Round the Garden*
NURSERY RHYME:
Humpty Dumpty
Pattern and Rhyme from Mother Goose’s Playhouse by Judy Sierra
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.
MOVEMENT: “Itsy Bitsy Spider” from Children’s Favorite Songs Volume 3 from Walt Disney
MOVEMENT: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from Songs for Wiggleworms by the Old Town School of Folk Music
MOVEMENT: Storytime’s Over*
HOW IT WENT:
Horses is an especially fun storytime theme to use with infants, because there are so many bounces you can do with the kids! I tried using my flannelboard See, See which I think is the weirdest flannelboard I’ve made. It didn’t go over well, so I didn’t even include it in this line up.
ATTENDANCE: 39 people
* For these songs, please see my page Storytime Movements & Music