NOVEMBER Book Babies + Toddler Time: Duck, Duck, Goose

by | Nov 12, 2024 | Blog, Book Babies, Kid's Corner, Toddler Time | 0 comments

“Play is serious business when it comes to a child’s health and development. From peek-a-boo to pat-a-cake and hide-and-seek to hopscotch, the many forms of play enrich a child’s brain, body and life in important ways.” HealthyChildren.org. When reading books with your child, don’t forget to incorporate “play time”, too. A simple game like Duck, Duck, Goose or even Peek-a-Boo will help your child develop needed social, emotional, and physical skills.

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

“More than just a chance to have fun, play is serious business when it comes to a child’s health and development. From peek-a-boo to pat-a-cake and hide-and-seek to hopscotch, the many forms of play enrich a child’s brain, body and life in important ways.” – The Power of Play: How Fun and Games Help Children Thrive – HealthyChildren.org

 

Toddler Activity

Organize/attend a parent-supervised playdate with children similar in age to your child. Play some simple games together which might involve taking turns such as Duck, Duck Goose, Roll the Round Ball Down to Town, or Red Rover.

Baby Activity

Play peek-a-boo. This reinforces object permanence, the idea that something still exists even if you can see it. You’ll know your baby gets the idea if you hide a toy under a blanket and they go looking for it.

Books Presented

Book cover for Duddle Puck the Puddle Duck by Karma Wilson

Duddle Puck: The Puddle Duck by Karma Wilson

A very odd duck that refuses to quack shocks and flusters animals all over the farm with his clucking, honking, oinking, and neighing.
Book cover for Do Like a Duck Does! by Judy Hindley

Do Like the Duck Does! by Judy Hindley

 
By challenging a hairy stranger to imitate the behavior of herself and her ducklings, a mother duck proves that he is a fox and not a duck.
Book cover for Silly Suzy Goose by Petr Horáček

Silly Suzy Goose by Petr Horáček

Suzy longs to be different from all the other geese, but learns that imitating a lion may not be the best way to express her individuality.
Book cover for Tickle the Duck! by Ethan Long

Tickle the Duck! by Ethan Long

In this hilarious touch-and-feel book, a cranky duck dares children to tickle his soft stomach, his hairy armpit, his rubbery foot-and reacts uproariously each time. Despite his protests, does the duck really like being tickled after all? This modern day version of Pat the Bunny will have its audience laughing, and maybe even snorting, -Do it again!

Book cover for Five Little Ducks by Teri Weidner

Five Little Ducks by Teri Weidner

A duck with a feather on his back leads his siblings with a “quack, quack, quack.” End notes list the benefits of children’s poems and songs.
Book cover for Duck Duck Goose by Tad Hills

Duck, Duck, Goose by Tad Hills

Duck and Goose face a challenge to their friendship when an enthusiastic young duck moves into their neighborhood who wants to play–and win–all sorts of games.
Book cover for Five Little Ducks: Sing Along with Me! by Yu-Hsuan Huang

Five Little Ducks: Sing Along with Me! by Yu-Hsuan Huang

With chunky sliders to push and pull, readers can join in this children’s song about a family of ducks.
“Join a mother duck as she counts her five ducklings in this interactive board book based on the beloved children’s song. With five slider mechanisms. A QR code inside links to both instrumental and vocal versions of the song. Simply scan the code to listen and sing along-Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!”
Book cover for Ollie's Hug by Olivier Dunrea

Ollie's Hug by Olivier Dunrea

When Ollie is in a grumpy mood and nothing feels right, a hug from a friend does the trick! The perfect board book for little kids with big feelings.

Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays

Bouncy, Bouncy Baby

Bouncy, bouncy baby. Bouncy, bouncy baby
Up and down, up and down.
Bouncy, bouncy baby.
Hippity hop little one. hippity hop little one
Back and forth, back and forth.
Hippity hop, little one.
Bippity bop, baby.  Bippity bop, baby
Jiggity, joggity, jiggity, joggity
Bouncy, bouncy…BOOM!

Source: The Pawling Library

Run Little Ducks*

Run, little duck, run like a flash, (run in place)
Jump in the water with a splash, splash, splash! (clap three times)
Paddle your feet all around,
Waddle on home when you hear this sound!
Quack, quack, quack!

*Goose

Source: Toddle On Over by Robin Works Davis

Little Duck, Little Duck

Little duck, little duck,
Are you under the _______ truck?

Goosey Goosey Gander

Goosey goosey gander,
Where did you wander?
Upstairs? Downstairs?
Or in the _________ chair?

Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks
Went out to play
Over the hill and far away
When the Mother duck said
“Quack, quack, quack.”
Four little ducks came waddling back.

Four little ducks…
Three little ducks…
Two little ducks…
One little duck…
No little ducks came waddling back.

But when Daddy duck said,
“Quack, quack, quack!”
Five little ducks came waddling back.

Zip Zip Zip

(tune: Wheels on the Bus)
Zip, Zip, Zip, off it goes!
I see baby without clothes.
Zip, zip, zip, oh what do I see?
Diaper’s on in one, two, three!

Source: Games to Play with Babies by Jackie Silberg

Where is Baby?

Tune: Frere Jacques
Where is baby?  Where is baby?
(Hold scarf  in front of your face.)
There he is!  There he is!
(Remove scarf  quickly.)
I’m so glad to see you.
I’m so glad to see you.
Peek-a-boo!
Peek-a-boo!

Peek a boo, peek a boo

Peek a boo, peek a boo
I see you, I see you
I see your button nose, I see your tiny toes
I see you, peek a boo

Source: Jbrary

Baby Sign Language

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