FEBRUARY Book Babies + Toddlers: Snow
FEBRUARY Book Babies + Toddlers: Snow
Winter is a magical time of “firsts” for a baby or toddler… first snowflake, white world, or cold nose. Even if there isn’t snow outdoors, you can introduce them to new textures like a fleece scarf, fuzzy mitten, or even a smooth ice pack wrapped in a towel with supervision. Your child might also enjoy an upside-down umbrella mobile with paper snowflakes or a sensory “snow” bag made with shaving cream or a bit of cool, cooked tapioca pudding inside.
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Babies not yet walking (Ages 0 – 12 months)
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Toddlers who are walking (Ages 1 – 2 years)
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
TIP
“Zoom, Zoom Zoom,” is a favorite song/game for many children. This exciting rhyme let’s the children count down to a lift-off at zero. Try this new winter version, “Snowflakes in the Sky,” where children can sing the same melody, but count up to ten. This rhyme is a great skill-builder for understanding sequencing, the order in which something takes place.
Activity
Make ten snowflakes with your child from paper or cupcake wrappers. Then, sing “Snowflakes in the Sky,” and count the snowflakes together at the end of the song. If you’d like use your snowflakes multiple times, you can “laminate” them with clear packing tape!
Books Presented
Snow Happy by Patricia Hubbell
OH! by Kevin Henkes
One-Dog Sleigh by Mary Casanova
Red Sled by Patricia Thomas
Jingle-Jingle by Nicola Smee
A Day in the Snow with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Megan Roth
Baby Loves Winter! by Karen Katz
A Little Book About Winter by Leo Lionni
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Bumpin’ Up and Down
Bumpin’ up and down
in my little red sled… x3
Won’t you be my darlin’!
Sliding down the hill…
Turning to the left…
Turning to the right…
Climbing up the hill…
Won’t you be my darlin’!
Adapted from King County Library System
Snowflakes in the Sky
(tune: Zoom, Zoom Zoom)
Fly, fly fly there’s snowflakes in the sky.
Fly, fly fly there’s snowflakes in the sky.
If you want to catch them all, count the snowflakes as they fall.
Fly, fly fly there’s snowflakes in the sky.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Dancing Snowflakes
(tune of Frère Jacques)
Dancing snowflakes,
Dancing snowflakes,
In the sky, in the sky
Whirling twirling snowflakes,
Whirling twirling snowflakes
See them fly, see them fly!
Adapted from Storytime with Ms. Emily Library
Come Under My Umbrella
(tune of The More We Get Together)
Come under my umbrella, umbrella, umbrella
Come under my umbrella, it’s starting to snow
There’s snowflakes and flurries and wind and ice
Come under my umbrella it’s starting to snow!
Adapted from King County Library System
Round and Round the Garden
Round and round the garden,
Little bunny goes.
Hippity-hop, hippity-hop,
He’s gonna get your nose!
Round and round the garden like a teddy bear
One step, two step
Hidden under there!
Round and round the garden
Hops the little bunny.
One, hop, two hops,
Tickle on your tummy!
Source: King County Library System
Go In and Out the Window
Go in and out the window,
Go in and out the window,
Go in and out the window,
As we have done before.
Stand up and face your partner,
Stand up and face your partner,
Stand up and face your partner,
As we have done before.
Source: Jbrary
