Book Babies: Welcome, Spring!
Book Babies: Welcome, Spring!
Spring is a great time for exploration, discovery and sensory experiences. You and Baby can talk about sounds, smells, colors, and how things feel to the touch such as a leaf that’s wet after a rainstorm. Try some of these books and songs to help Baby, “Welcome, Spring!”
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Ages 2-5
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
Even little rhymes present knowledge about our world. “Little Raindrops Falling Down” uses a familiar melody to tell the story of different types of rain and how they sound when falling to the ground, just like real rain.
Activity
Sing, “Little Raindrops Falling Down,” and do the actions with Baby. Talk about how the rain sounds. Then, when you go for a walk after it’s rained, look for puddles. You can show your child how the trees, buildings, and clouds are upside down in the water before Baby jumps in the puddle!
Books Presented
Baby Loves Spring! by Karen Katz
On a fine spring day, Baby goes for a walk and wonders about what he sees and hears in a tree, in the dirt, and behind a bush.
Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson
Invites the reader to tap, rub, touch, and wiggle illustrations to make an apple tree bloom, produce fruit, and lose its leaves.
Little Blue Truck's Springtime by Alice Schertle
Lift the flaps to discover the animal babies encountered by Toad and Little Blue Truck when they drive to the farm in the spring.
We Believe in You by Beth Ferry
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Scarf Rhyme: Here is a Green Leaf
Here is a green leaf (hold out one palm)
And here is a green leaf (hold out other palm)
That, you see, makes two (hold up two fingers)
Here is a bud (cup hands together)
That makes it a flower (slowly open hands)
Watch it bloom for you (slowly open hands)
Song/Action Song: Rain is Falling Down
The rain is falling down, (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH (clap loudly once)
The rain is falling down, (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH (clap loudly once)
Pitter patter pitter patter
The rain is falling down, (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH (clap loudly once)
Action Song: Little Raindrops Falling Down
Little raindrops falling down,
Falling down, falling down.(gently pat lap)
Little raindrops falling down,
Falling to the ground.
2nd verse – Bigger raindrops (clap hands)
3rd verse – Giant raindrops (stomp feet)
– Kcls.org
Scarf Song: Rain on the Grass
Rain on the grass
Rain on the trees
Rain on the roof
but not on me
Sun…
Snow…
Leaves…
Bouncing Baby on My Knee
– Jbrary
Additional Books
Kitten's Spring by Eugenie Fernandes
Dr. Seuss's Spring Things by Dr. Seuss
Written in super-simple rhyme, this sweet sturdy board book features Thing One and Thing Two as they frolic with iconic Spring “things”–including ducklings, bunnies, flowers, frogs, wriggling worms, and butterflies.
Abracadabra, It's Spring! by Anne Sibley O'Brien
When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes
Before spring comes, the trees are dark sticks, the grass is brown, and the ground is covered in snow. But if you wait, leaves unfurl and flowers blossom, the grass turns green, and the mounds of snow shrink and shrink.
