Weekly Storytime Songs

Here are the words and citations to the weekly repeated rhymes and songs for my baby storytimes:

OPENING SONG (current): Good Morning Song
I adapted this from Greg & Steve’s fabulous “Good Morning Song.”

Good morning, good morning, good morning to you
Good morning, good morning, good morning to you
It’s time for our stories, there’s so much to do
Good morning, good morning, good morning to you.

OPENING SONG (retired): Hello Song
from Teach a Toddler: Playful Songs for Learning, Priscilla Hegner & Rose Grasselli, Kimbo Educational

Hello, hello, it’s time to come and play
Hello, hello, let’s have some fun today
Let’s clap our hands
Wiggle our toes
Shake our bottoms
Hug and kiss and away we go

OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Shut Them
This is an old standard! I chant it rather than sing it.

Open them, shut them
Open them, shut them
Give a little clap clap clap

Open them, shut them
Open them, shut them
Lay them in your lap

Creep them, creep them
Creep them, creep them
Right up to your chin chin chin

Open wide your little mouth…
But do not let them in!

FLANNEL SONG: A-Hunting We Will Go
Traditional. I sing this every week, using four different clip art animal-and-rhyme pairs.

A-hunting we will go
A-hunting we will go
We’ll catch a fox and put him in a box
And never let him go

CLOSING ACTION RHYME: This Is Big
I wrote this easy action rhyme & we do it every week. It’s a big hit!

This is big big big
Hold arms out to side

This is small small small
Cup hands together

This is short short short
Hold hands with palms facing each other

This is tall tall tall
Reach one hand above head

This is fast fast fast
Circle fists quickly

This is slow slow slow
Circle fists slowly

This is yes yes yes
Nod

This is no no no
Shake head

CLOSING SONG: Sneeze Game
from Teach a Toddler: Playful Songs for Learning, Priscilla Hegner & Rose Grasselli, Kimbo Educational

You see with your eyes
Touch your eyes
You sneeze with your nose
Touch your nose (achoo!)
You hear with your ears
Touch your ears
You kiss with your lips
Kiss me here