Baby Story Time - Ducks!

So sorry for the long hiatus from Baby Story Time! I've been feeling a little bit "blah" about my story times lately - do you ever get that way?  I must have had the winter blues, but I'm trying my best to snap out of it!  In fact, a few weeks ago I tried a spring-y theme to cheer us all up - Ducks!

OPENING SONG: "The Hello Song" *

GREETING SONG: "Hello" (Name Song) *

WAKE-UP RHYME: "Roly-Poly" (from Linda Ernst's Baby Rhyming Time)
Roly-poly, roly-poly, up, up, up
     (roll arms, arms reach up)
Roly-poly, roly-poly, down, down, down
     (roll arms, arms reach down)
Roly-poly, roly-poly, out, out, out
     (roll arms, arms reach out)
Roly-poly, roly-poly, in, in, in!
     (roll arms, bring arms together)

1st BOOK: Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg Peters

This was a new one for me, and I really liked reading it! We were thinking Spring, for sure!

GUESSING GAME: "Where's Duck?"

Check out my Flannel Friday post about this simple little activity. It went really well!

COUNTING SONG: "Mama Duck" (from Peter Allard's cd "Sing It!, Say It!, Stamp It!, Sway It! Vol. 3)
This song is so much fun to do with babies.  Give your baby a bounce on every "Quack!" I always just sing this song so that I can control the speed and give directions between each verse.

Here comes the Mama duck - Quack! (one bounce)
Here comes the Mama duck - Quack! (one bounce)
Here comes the Mama duck and 1 little duckling - Quack! (one bounce)

Here comes the Mama duck - Quack! Quack! (two bounces)
Here comes the Mama duck - Quack! Quack! (two bounces)
Here comes the Mama duck and 2 little ducklings - Quack! Quack! (two bounces)

Keep going up to five bounces - be ready for lots of giggles!

2nd BOOK: Five Little Ducks by Ivan Bates

Sing this one!

ACTION SONG: "Old MacDonald" (traditional)

I busted out our big-mouth puppets for this fun song! You can get them here.





We don't always use the same animals every time we sing this song.  This week we did cow, dog, pig, and ended with our duck.

RHYTHM TIME: SHAKERS!

"Six Little Ducks" (from Bob McGrath's cd "Sing Along with Bob #1)

We shook our shakers to this lively duck song with lots of quacking!

"Shake Your Shaker" (To the tune of "Old MacDonald")

1) Shake your shaker in the air, shake it in the air.

   With a shake-shake here and a shake-shake there,
   Here a shake, there a shake, everywhere a shake-shake.
   Shake your shaker in the air, shake it in the air.

2) Shake your shaker way down low, shake it way down low...

    With a shake-shake here and a shake-shake there,

    Here a shake, there a shake, everywhere a shake-shake.
    Shake your shaker way down low, shake it way down low...

3rd BOOK: Duckie's Rainbow by Frances Barry

We didn't get to this book with my "Wonderful Ones" group - they were just too wiggly that day! The little babies enjoyed it though!

CLOSING SONG: "If You're Happy and You Know It" *

GOODBYE SONG: "Babies, Bye-Bye" *

CLOSING RHYME: "Thank You" *



*Check out my Baby Story Time page for the words to all of my weekly songs and rhymes.

We had a great time quacking our way towards Spring with ducks this week! And our actual Spring-themed story time is coming soon!

Want to see how Miss Kristie used Duckie's Rainbow with Toddlers? Click here.