Book Babies + Toddler Time: Frog and Toad Tails
Book Babies + Toddler Time: Frog and Toad Tails
Ribbit, ribbit… HOP! Enjoy learning about tiny tadpoles to big frogs with these books and songs.
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:45am in Community Room
Ages 0 – 10 months
Toddler Time: Tuesday @ 9:45am 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
The use of small percussion instruments such as bells, rhythm sticks, shakers and drums helps with muscular development and coordination
Activity
Sing “Going to Kentucky” or another egg shaker song with your child. While shaking the egg, experiment with different rhythms, stopping and starting, and high or low!
Books Presented
Big Frog Can't Fit In by Mo Willems
Big Frog is big. Quite big. So big this book can’t hold her. But with a lot of help from some good friends, Big Frog will fit in just fine! Filled with exciting and unique pops constructed sturdily, and perfectly suited for little hands, this vibrant new pop-up book will appeal to Mo fans old and new.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Knee Bounce: Dickery Dickery Dare
Dickery Dickery Dare,
(bounce baby on lap)
A pig flew up in the air!
(lift baby up into air)
The man in brown
Soon brought him down.
(bring baby back down)
Dickery Dickery Dare.
(bounce baby on lap)
Knee Bounce: To Market, To Market
To market, to market to buy a fat pig
Home again, home again, jiggity jig!
To market, to market to buy a fat hog
Home again, home again, jiggity jog!
Shakers: Going to Kentucky
I was going to Kentucky, going to the fair,
To see the senorita with the flowers in her hair.
Oh, shake it, shake it, shake it,
Shake it if you can,
Shake it like a milkshake,
And do the best you can.
Oh, wobble to the bottom,
Wobble to the top,
And turn around and turn around until you make a stop!
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
Yuuuuummm…yuuummm!
One jumped into the pool,
where it was nice and cool.
Then there were four green speckled frogs,
Glub glub.
Four green and speckled frogs…
Three green and speckled frogs…
Two green and speckled frogs…
One green and speckled frog…
…Then there were no green speckled frogs!
Glub glub, glub, glub
Baby Sign Language
“Bed”
“Tired”
“Sleep”
Additional Books
Frog's Summer Journey by Anita Loughrey
Tad by Benji Davies
Meet Tad. She’s the smallest tadpole in a big pond. And she’s not frightened of Big Blub. Not. At. All. But when her tad brothers and tadsisters start to get bigger and disappear, Tad worries that she’ll be left all alone. All alone in the dark, with Big Blub. Growing up might take longer when you start at the bottom, but sometimes tiny hearts have the biggest dreams.
