If You’re Ready For a Story
If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)
If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)
If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story
If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)
If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)
If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)
If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story
If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)
If you’re ready for a story wave hello
If you’re ready for a story wave hello
If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story
If you’re ready for a story wave hello
This Is Big Big Big
This is big big big, this is small small small
This is short short short, this is tall tall tall
This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow
This is yes yes yes, this is no no no
ABCs
Open/Shut Them
Open shut them, open shut them
Give a little clap clap clap
Open shut them, open shut them
Put them in your lap lap lap
Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them
Right up to your chinny chin chin
Open wide your little mouth—but do not let them in!
Sheep Blast Off by Margot Apple
*This one was fun, but not as big a hit as it was at the Big Kids storytime. I think this group liked the rhyming, but they didn’t quite get the humor of the story. It would definitely worth trying the other ones in this series with this age group, though.
Zoom Zoom Zoom
Zoom zoom zoom, we’re going to the moon
Zoom zoom zoom, we’re going to the moon
If you want to take a trip, climb aboard my rocket ship
Zoom zoom zoom, we’re going to the moon
In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 BLASTOFF!
Bumping Up and Down
Bumping up and down in my little space shuttle
Bumping up and down in my little space shuttle
Bumping up and down in my little space shuttle
Won’t you fly to the moon with me?
My space suit’s on and my boots are too
My space suit’s on and my boots are too
My space suit’s on and my boots are too
Won’t you fly to the moon with me?
We’re Flying Off in Space
*for this, I printed a few space-y pictures like planets, aliens, rockets, etc. and sang the following song to guess them-
We’re flying off in space, we’re flying off in space
I think we’ll see a [rocket ship] there, we’re flying off in space
Astronaut Piggy Wiggy by Christyan and Diane Fox
If You’re Going to the Moon
(to the tune of If You’re Happy and You Know It)
If you’re going to the moon wear your boots (stomp stomp)
If you’re going to the moon wear your boots (stomp stomp)
If you’re going to the moon, if you’re going to the moon
If you’re going to the moon wear your boots (stomp stomp)
If you’re going to the moon wear your suit (ziiiip!)
If you’re going to the moon wear your suit (ziiiip!)
If you’re going to the moon, if you;re going to the moon
If you’re going to the moon wear your suit (ziiiip!)
[we also came up with wear your helmet (pat your head) and wear your gloves (clap hands)]
Moon Jump
(from Aaron Nigel Smith’s CD Let’s Pretend)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Jane Cabrera
Bubbles in the Air
There are bubbles in the air, in the air
There are bubbles in the air, in the air
There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air
There are bubbles in the air, in the air
There are bubbles way up high, way up high
There are bubbles way up high, way up high
There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky
There are bubbles way up high, way up high
There are bubbles way down low, way down low
There are bubbles way down low, way down low
There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes
There are bubbles way down low, way down low
Bubbles
Goodbye Song
Storytime is over now, over now, over now
Storytime is over now—see you next time!
the buckeye librarian 