OCTOBER Book Babies + Toddler Time
OCTOBER Book Babies + Toddler Time
In October, we walked with animals, flew in a spaceship, and cooked French fries and pumpkins in a pan with hot oil! Try out some more activities this month with your baby or toddler from the suggestions below.
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 0 – 10 months
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 11 – 23 months
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
When you give your child positive reinforcement by clapping or telling them that they did a great job, you are encouraging them to act both independently and cooperatively. To encourage this at home, use activities that your child can do easily, and don’t forget to give a lot of positive encouragement.
Activity
Have fun with, “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!” For babies, bounce your child on your lap and lift her up very quickly on “lift-off!” For toddlers, model for your child how to step into a rocket ship, then squat down and jump up for the lift-off.
Sensory Activity
Ball Tunnel: Try this fun activity from Research Parent. Place an empty wrapping paper or connected paper towel tubes on an incline such as a chair and roll small balls down the tunnel. Talk about “up” and “down” with your child. Not only are they learning cause and effect, the beginnings of potential and kinetic energy, but it’s also so much fun!!
Books Presented
If You're a Robot and You Know It by David A Carter
Happy robots stomp their feet, jump and beep, and shout Hooray, in a take on the classic lyrics to “Happy and you know it.”
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
Everybody sing along—because it’s time to do-si-do in the barnyard with a high-spirited animal crew!
Pop Up Peekaboo! Space
5,4,3,2,1 – blast off! Go on an out-of-this-world adventure with two brave astronauts, Daisy and Danny, in this lift-the-flap baby book. Rocket into space, past the stars and planets, and join them as they land on the moon.
Snappy Little Farmyard by Dugald Steer
A day on the farm has never been quite so much fun — or quite so noisy — thanks to this mooing, baaing, neighing menagerie of pop-up surprises. And what better way to learn than with this happy, snappy pop-up!
Where is Baby's Pumpkin? by Karen Katz
An adorable baby searches throughout the house for her pumpkin. Is the pumpkin under the leaves, behind the curtain, under the bed? NO! But Baby finds many other surprises as a ghost, a witch’s hat, cute-as-a-button bats, and candy apples are found beneath each flap. Finally after Baby finds her pumpkin, she’s ready to go trick-or-treating and the final flap reveals a Halloween extravaganza!
Spooky Spooky Little Bat
Join the Halloween fun in this spooky rhyming twist on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Follow the little bat as it flies above town and makes new friends. This fun board book for tots features beautiful illustrations and a plush bat finger puppet with wings.
Creak! Squeak! Halloween
Peek-a… BOO! We’re going to a spooky castle to celebrate Halloween in this fun storybook! Let’s sneak through the pumpkin patch together without being seen.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Clippity Clop
This is how the ladies ride…
Clippity clop, clippity clop!
This is how the gentlemen ride…
Giddy-up, giddy up!
This is how the cowboys ride…
Yeehaw! Ride-um, cowboy!
As I Was Walking to Town One Day
As I was walking to town one day
I met a (animal name) along the way
And what do you think that (animal name) did say?
(make animal noise)
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon
Just climb aboard my rocket ship.
Zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re going to the moon.
5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – 0 – Lift OFF !!!
Baby Put Your Pants On
Tune of “Mama’s Little Baby Loves Shortnin’ Bread”
Baby put your pants on, pants on, pants on,
Baby put your pants on, 1, 2, 3. (repeat)
Leg to the left, leg to the right, wiggle and jiggle and pull ‘em up tight.
Baby put your pants on, pants on, pants on,
Baby put your pants on, 1, 2, 3.
Repeat with other articles of clothing (socks or tights, shoes, etc.)
